I got a goddam performance review at Mobil Oil in Dallas that said, "The users love you. However, your methods don't fit the Corporate mold."
They were right.
I had a fucking burr headed kid under my wing who had the best computers in his office and I told him to shove all that shit to the floor where actual workers were struggling with POS crap.
He complained to management so I fired that bitch.
I asked management, "Can you actually hear what you're saying? The "users" are our goddam CUSTOMERS!
In my experience, inheriting legacy apps is very difficult because there's a steep learning curve before ever touching anything.
To fully grok the application, I had to read and understand and become the past programmer(s) so that I could predict what and how the program worked as the program pointer zipped along.
I could recognize different programmers by the signature coding approach in each module.
Then there's my world view, which I used to reshape the whole goddam thing.
Coders before me never documented, inside or outside, the code.
I didn't, either.
Management didn't appreciate the value of documentation and refused to pay for the "downtime."
4 desktops are Windows XP PRO with registry hack to make them appear to be embedded, like an ATM or something, so they continue to get security updates.
They are in service on the local WiFi only for closed security camera duty.
One desktop is Windows 7 and because it has a touch screen, can't be upgraded to Windows 10. Another is Windows 8, updated to Windows 10, the other is Windows 8.1, updated to 10, and my primary is Windows 10 Home Edition.
I got hit with faux ransomeware years ago. It was simply a wallpaper that fired up on startup. I went into Safe Mode and told it to stop the shit.
Other than that, I've been OK.
I don't run anti-virus. Those are so yesterday and usually come in through email attachments. As a retired systems analyst and network administrator, computers are not my first jigsaw puzzle.
I have put out a request for more surplus desktops from family and friends but people just don't have desktops anymore.
I have privilege, and if you don't, yell your fucking head off about SJW and I'm there for you.
My vote is in your favor.
My hand is out to you.
I am not afraid of any goddam thing because I have privilege and giving you privilege is not a threat to me.
What's a threat to me is those mother fucking goddam batshit crazy rabid right wing Christian Evangelical under-educated white trash who don't have the sense god gave a piss ant.
As you allude, weaponry technology has changed so much since #2A was established.
Look at protests that turn to violence: Citizens are using stone-age technology of sticks and stones and fire against helicopters, riot police, pepper spray, rubber bullets, water hoses, Tasers and firearms.
To those who go off the rails saying we need the #2A to defend against a tyrannical government (are wrong... it's OTHER tyrannical governments) are not right in the head.
I can't buy grenades, rocket launchers, aircraft carriers, napalm, Predator drones and shit.
And, while I am licensed to carry for self defense, I will be immediately arrested and subjected to due process and wit for the courts to decide if I actually, in reality, have the right to use the arm I can, by right, keep and bear.
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... ended the day it was born.
Not as bad as ME, but a fucking bitch for the workplace.
This.
Automation doesn't know what the fuck it's doing.
I was working on a unit at Texaco and it was a shutdown.
No hydrocarbons are allowed on the unit while it's down and workers are crawling all over it.
Against regulations, a 10" pipe full of propane terminated 12' into the perimeter and was flanged with a rusty blind.
We were 6 days into the 30-day shutdown when the blind ruptured.
The pressure meter on the line said, "Oh, shit! Loss of pressure! Spin up the pump! Crap!. Pressure not responding, pump MORE!"
Killed 8 people.
That, in a nutshell, is AI.
I got a goddam performance review at Mobil Oil in Dallas that said, "The users love you. However, your methods don't fit the Corporate mold."
They were right.
I had a fucking burr headed kid under my wing who had the best computers in his office and I told him to shove all that shit to the floor where actual workers were struggling with POS crap.
He complained to management so I fired that bitch.
I asked management, "Can you actually hear what you're saying? The "users" are our goddam CUSTOMERS!
I got a promotion.
What role does the male play in all of this?
The male contribution to child care is missing in your response.
Why is that?
This.
In my experience, inheriting legacy apps is very difficult because there's a steep learning curve before ever touching anything.
To fully grok the application, I had to read and understand and become the past programmer(s) so that I could predict what and how the program worked as the program pointer zipped along.
I could recognize different programmers by the signature coding approach in each module.
Then there's my world view, which I used to reshape the whole goddam thing.
Coders before me never documented, inside or outside, the code.
I didn't, either.
Management didn't appreciate the value of documentation and refused to pay for the "downtime."
This.
I took COBOL and it was one of the easiest to understand.
The goddam language is almost English. Fuck, I never had to "press 2."
Mr. Hinshaw needs to be teaching a bunch of COBOL graduates.
... all the "Wells Fargo, Bitfinex, Taiwan-based, The Merkle, BFX_Brandon" references are pseudonyms and stuff.
Can I put this to use to clone a mesh network for private communications?
Bullshit.
It's TL;DR and starts off with buzzwords to make you feel good about yourself.
You got no cred.
You are dismissed.
That made me think of something:
Know what we don't see much of anymore?
Horse shit in a garage.
So you have a way of determining that I'm:
1.) A liberal
2.) A Democrat
3.) in need of rest
4.) Keeper of the middle class' 401(k)
5.) A psycho
6.) Having sex
You're a psychic.
But you knew that.
I have 8 desktop computers and two portables.
4 desktops are Windows XP PRO with registry hack to make them appear to be embedded, like an ATM or something, so they continue to get security updates.
They are in service on the local WiFi only for closed security camera duty.
One desktop is Windows 7 and because it has a touch screen, can't be upgraded to Windows 10. Another is Windows 8, updated to Windows 10, the other is Windows 8.1, updated to 10, and my primary is Windows 10 Home Edition.
I got hit with faux ransomeware years ago. It was simply a wallpaper that fired up on startup. I went into Safe Mode and told it to stop the shit.
Other than that, I've been OK.
I don't run anti-virus. Those are so yesterday and usually come in through email attachments. As a retired systems analyst and network administrator, computers are not my first jigsaw puzzle.
I have put out a request for more surplus desktops from family and friends but people just don't have desktops anymore.
... the CIA got a job to do.
I'd feel better about them if they could keep a secret, but let me restate CaptainDork's corollary:
For every motherfucker out there with a computer, there's another motherfucker out there with a computer. ~ © 2017 CaptainDork
Speaking as a white man:
I have privilege, and if you don't, yell your fucking head off about SJW and I'm there for you.
My vote is in your favor.
My hand is out to you.
I am not afraid of any goddam thing because I have privilege and giving you privilege is not a threat to me.
What's a threat to me is those mother fucking goddam batshit crazy rabid right wing Christian Evangelical under-educated white trash who don't have the sense god gave a piss ant.
Are you asking yourself the same question from the other point of view?
Are Muslim bans and extreme vetting by Trump administration exempting ordinary citizens?
That's the gist of my thesis in another world: "Weapon Equity"
Citizens have the right to keep and bear arms, but they do not have the right to actually use them. ~ © 2017 CaptainDork
As you allude, weaponry technology has changed so much since #2A was established.
Look at protests that turn to violence: Citizens are using stone-age technology of sticks and stones and fire against helicopters, riot police, pepper spray, rubber bullets, water hoses, Tasers and firearms.
To those who go off the rails saying we need the #2A to defend against a tyrannical government (are wrong ... it's OTHER tyrannical governments) are not right in the head.
I can't buy grenades, rocket launchers, aircraft carriers, napalm, Predator drones and shit.
And, while I am licensed to carry for self defense, I will be immediately arrested and subjected to due process and wit for the courts to decide if I actually, in reality, have the right to use the arm I can, by right, keep and bear.
The links I pasted were:
1.) Not original material on my part
2.) Not in audio format.
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... should rule the day.
All countries should respond in kind to any vetting and any banning by the USA.
I'm an American and not particularly proud of it.
You left out another possible outcome.
I live in America and the people who scare me the most are the batshit crazy poor, under-educated Evangelical Christian white trash.
Trump ... Trudeau.
We missed it by that much.
America should be more like Canada.
The USA is toast and Trump is the apex asshole who's the logical trajectory of rabid batshit crazy greed.
The amendment we need now is the fucking 2nd.
You and I think that sucks, but the batshit crazy poor under-educated Evangelical Christian white trash don't care.
They can barely afford the MAGA red hat.