Sure it could, but as a rule, I don't start handing out bits of private info as soon as I walk through the door for an interview.
My experience (in interviewing for software developer jobs) is that once you get through the door, you talk to some number of real people (project and/or program managers, techies who actually do the work, etc.) and *then* you talk to an HR rep who gives you the company-standard employment application to fill out. This employment application tends to be select bits of info from a resume, plus weaselly things like "Date and reason you left that job".
My take on it is this: if I don't have warm fuzzies about the people/company/position, then they get nothing more from me. I don't fill out the application, as I've no intention of continuing talks with them.
I'd like to think that my bullsh*t detector would go off if it turned out that I was talking to information harvesters.
where does one draw the line for giving out personal information in response to a classified ad?
Name, address, phone number, spam-proofed (or at least filtered) email address. That's it. Nothing past that in something that's going out via the 'net.
Potential employer (or identity thief) wants more than that, I'll be (more) willing to give it out in person. Not over the phone, fax, carrier pigeon...
braille on the buttons -- just like there is at every drive-through ATM in the U.S.?
Back in 1990, my wife had an account at a bank where the drive-thru ATM had braille instructions (here's the fun part) for the TOUCH SCREEN interface! Think of the implications...
A German university was accused by the BSA of pirating MS Office, because they mirrored OpenOffice.org. The scripts from the BSA only check for "Office" in the filename and then automatically send out notices to the ftp admins.
Dadgumit, the Boy Scouts of America have gone too far this time! Back in my day, we helped little old ladies across the street... Now they're policing for pirated software? Sheesh...
I must admit that I didn't bother to read the page when I posted the link; I'm fairly certain that I'd obtained a "real" SuSE distro from there some number of years back.
So far today is a slow spam day for me. Only 81 spam, but its only 9:30.
You need to work smarter, not harder, Taco. I'm sure that if you apply yourself, you can come up with, say, a Perl script to send hundreds, or even thousands of spam by 0900 each and every day...
And the fact that you choose to use a keyboard over handwritting seems to suggest that learning a new UI was acctually of benifit to you, and certinaly not bad design.
Absolutely. It also was beneficial to my teachers, who no longer had to try to decipher my heiroglyphic-like scrawl.:)
No, I learned to type on a manual typewriter (in 6th grade (1976); I didn't get introduced to computers until 11th grade (1981)) to avoid having to write school papers by hand.
On the old PLATO system there was an instant messaging called term-talk
Woo-hoo! PLATO was (is? are there any PLATO systems (pca, uofdel, etc.) still around?) way cool in this respect.
I always loved "term-consult" which allowed a PSO (PLATO Services Organization) Consultant (typically one with mad programming skills) to "see" your code as you maneuvered around the editor, while still "term-talking" on the bottom of the screen.
Many years ago (1986) I worked on a project that required us to create "Flow Charts" of our software design. In times past, I'd used the time-honored "flow chart template" (a piece of plastic with specialized shapes cut out of it) and while I didn't actually like it, it got the job done.
On this project, however, we were provided with a piece of software (Easyflow) to accomplish the same goal, but without the need to put pencil to paper. Instead, we used the software so we could fiddle endlessly with the design before committing a single pin to paper (yes, children, this was in the days when the dot-matrix printer ruled, before laser printers came free in your breakfast cereal).
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How exactly does this fall under the category "Your Rights Online"?
Sure it could, but as a rule, I don't start handing out bits of private info as soon as I walk through the door for an interview.
My experience (in interviewing for software developer jobs) is that once you get through the door, you talk to some number of real people (project and/or program managers, techies who actually do the work, etc.) and *then* you talk to an HR rep who gives you the company-standard employment application to fill out. This employment application tends to be select bits of info from a resume, plus weaselly things like "Date and reason you left that job".
My take on it is this: if I don't have warm fuzzies about the people/company/position, then they get nothing more from me. I don't fill out the application, as I've no intention of continuing talks with them.
I'd like to think that my bullsh*t detector would go off if it turned out that I was talking to information harvesters.
where does one draw the line for giving out personal information in response to a classified ad?
Name, address, phone number, spam-proofed (or at least filtered) email address. That's it. Nothing past that in something that's going out via the 'net.
Potential employer (or identity thief) wants more than that, I'll be (more) willing to give it out in person. Not over the phone, fax, carrier pigeon...
braille on the buttons -- just like there is at every drive-through ATM in the U.S.?
Back in 1990, my wife had an account at a bank where the drive-thru ATM had braille instructions (here's the fun part) for the TOUCH SCREEN interface! Think of the implications...
A German university was accused by the BSA of pirating MS Office, because they mirrored OpenOffice.org. The scripts from the BSA only check for "Office" in the filename and then automatically send out notices to the ftp admins.
Dadgumit, the Boy Scouts of America have gone too far this time! Back in my day, we helped little old ladies across the street... Now they're policing for pirated software? Sheesh...
That would be BOORDY.
Hope this helps.
Off-topic, yes, but still informative.
Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow.
As good advice as any from Frank Zappa.
I sit corrected.
I must admit that I didn't bother to read the page when I posted the link; I'm fairly certain that I'd obtained a "real" SuSE distro from there some number of years back.
Time to crawl back under my rock...
Also dont they have a mjority stakholding in SuSE practically the only distrobution you cant download iso for?
Um, you can't download this?
Yeah [ford.com], that's [hughes.com] pretty [turner.com] unprecedented [dell.com].
But Dell started out as "PC's Limited" (note incorrect use of apostrophe) in 1984, changing to the eponym in 1987.
So far today is a slow spam day for me. Only 81 spam, but its only 9:30.
You need to work smarter, not harder, Taco. I'm sure that if you apply yourself, you can come up with, say, a Perl script to send hundreds, or even thousands of spam by 0900 each and every day...
This follows the classic theory taught by Mel Brooks in "The Mythical Man Month"
You misspelled Fred Brooks.
Although I do think that Mel Brooks could do something fun with the topic...
Sorry, but you've been beaten by a few years and several hundred miles. Linux has already been in orbit aboard the space shuttle several times.
But the debian gang didn't build their own shuttle, now did they?
What if you had never used a typewritter before?
:)
That's my point -- I hadn't.
And the fact that you choose to use a keyboard over handwritting seems to suggest that learning a new UI was acctually of benifit to you, and certinaly not bad design.
Absolutely. It also was beneficial to my teachers, who no longer had to try to decipher my heiroglyphic-like scrawl.
Did you learn to type to use the computer?
No, I learned to type on a manual typewriter (in 6th grade (1976); I didn't get introduced to computers until 11th grade (1981)) to avoid having to write school papers by hand.
I was able to be productive using Graffiti almost immediately, as my writing was eerily similar to it already.
...fire hot.
This headline cracks me up.
"Scientists have found Ringo Star around our galaxy"
The tipoff was that it had trouble maintaining anything other than a straight 4/4 rhythm.
Supporters envision the use of drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles, for such tasks as moving cargo, pinpointing traffic problems
Yep, there's the problem right there; that clown in the Beemer that just cut me off.
Target lock acquired.... *poof*
Problem solved!
On the old PLATO system there was an instant messaging called term-talk
Woo-hoo! PLATO was (is? are there any PLATO systems (pca, uofdel, etc.) still around?) way cool in this respect.
I always loved "term-consult" which allowed a PSO (PLATO Services Organization) Consultant (typically one with mad programming skills) to "see" your code as you maneuvered around the editor, while still "term-talking" on the bottom of the screen.
i live in Minnesota where [snip] 3. Spam capital of the world.
Huh... I hadn't realized that Hawaii had annexed Minnesota.
Translation: I'm a clutz, what do you expect from a dork anyhow? ;-)
That's klutz.
HTH.
Perl is a write-only language. You aren't supposed to be able to read it
Ever seen APL?
Do you guys think that The Who will find a replacement bass player for the tour?
And where, pray tell, could they find someone to replace him? There's just not many (any?) of his calibre.
I picked up the bass because of players like John Entwistle and Chris Squire...
A sad day, indeed.
Many years ago (1986) I worked on a project that required us to create "Flow Charts" of our software design. In times past, I'd used the time-honored "flow chart template" (a piece of plastic with specialized shapes cut out of it) and while I didn't actually like it, it got the job done.
On this project, however, we were provided with a piece of software (Easyflow) to accomplish the same goal, but without the need to put pencil to paper. Instead, we used the software so we could fiddle endlessly with the design before committing a single pin to paper (yes, children, this was in the days when the dot-matrix printer ruled, before laser printers came free in your breakfast cereal).
Easyflow's Bloodthirsty License Agreement was the first hint that the user manual would be an interesting read.
IIRC, there were also 2 entry points to the manual proper, worded somthing like this:
Ah, the good old days.