Interesting to see that the only president who people outranks Bush in the failure score is Nixon. Rounding out the bottom 4, we have Johnson and Viet Nam, and Ford screwing up by pardoning Nixon and saying he had to, when he clearly didn't.
The end result of your statement is circular logic at its finest:
If you have proof that's valid...
... then we'll investigate...
If you already have the proof, why investigate?
The simple fact is that more than half the population feels the election was stolen - an investigation is needed, even if it wasn't - to restore faith in the system.
If the election was in fact stolen, "moving on" is the worst thing you can do, since its a direct attack on both the constitution and the legitimacy of government - and through that, an attack on the US and its citizens. Finding the criminals who helped steal it would be the right thing.
I know what you mean... people really mis-match their fonts. Couple that with bad drivers and there are some screens where I'm going "you can't actually READ that, can you?"
This is particularly bad for the early adopters who spent big bucks for those tiny 15" or less lcd screens and are trying to get their money's worth by using the highest res their card puts out.
"mean I could just say that I'm sure there is a study out there that says having a pet lizard decreases your risk for cancer, and just tell every who doubts me to go to the library and look for it."
They could. What's the big deal... this is slashdot. BTW, cancer-sniffing dogs were belittled for a long time as well - now they're accepted as being damned good at screening. Instead of trying to wall ourselves off as a "special being" rather than a mammal that can share our space with other mammals of different genus, we should be trying to integrate them more into our lives. Just the $$$ saved would be enormous.
To put it on-topic - poor posture isn't something you want, for either sex. Just the back pain problems should be enough to actively seek ways to improve posture. The act of walking a dog on a leash on a regular basis can't hurt (unless you get hit by a truck while walking the dog, or some similar accident); just the break from the 8-hour-sit-in-one-place routine, along with the chance to get away from the desk and let the problem sort of "gel" in the back of your mind, should be enough of a financial and health incentive
to encourage dogs in the corporate environment.
Plus, you've never walked into the office of the daughter of one of the largest real-estate developers in Canada and seen 2 motionless great danes, one one each side of her desk, just sitting there, staring. You can be sure that NOBODY is rude in her office, no sexual harrassment, no shouting, etc. Everyone who goes in there stands straighter, if only so they can run faster if they have to:-)
I agree, a voice over a loudspeaker doesn't make things more secure.
It reminds me of the comedy routine where the guy goes:
"In my house, you never talked back, so I was kind of freaked when I heard my friend tell his mother to go f*ck herself. I asked how he got away with it. He said "Simple, they threaten to punish me, I say I'm going to call youth services and report them. I get away with EVERYTHING I want."
"So I went home, and when my father asked me to take out the garbage, I said "F*ck you pops, I'm busy watching TV!'
And dad went... "Russell... one of us is going to get a big hurt in a minute, and its not me..."
"And I went 'Oh, yeah? You lay a hand on my and I'll call Youth Services."
"Russell... you can phone Youth Services, but remember , it takes them 20 minutes to get here, and one of us is going to get big hurt in the meantime, and its not me."
Having police sitting in front of cameras and shouting over loudspeakers instead of being on the ground would have been a recipe for disaster at the recent Dawson College shooting. The death toll would have been much higher. We'd have had it all on hard disk, but that's cold consolation.
No - this account has been around for quite some time. They just changed their email address, and somehow mixed up some letters, and it ended up going to one of my accounts. For now, I'm just ignoring it. What else is there to do, really. Its just someone's myspace account, and hopefully they've created another one, and the old one will die from being ignored.
If I were the nosy type, I might have snooped through the account and find some personal detail or other that would let me identify the person, but that doesn't feel right.
No, I didn't get that far in the thread, and you're making a lot of assumptions about how I read/post. Is someone supposed to go and read the entire thread, all the posts, then re-readit, just to be sure it hasn't changed, etc., and that the various servers that serve up slashdot are all in sync, before posting, and then post anon just to make sure they're not accused of karma whoring? I don't think so.
You probably also get all bent out of shape over "who shot first - Hans Solo or whoever..." You must be a real riot at parties, explaining why jokes you tell are funny, while everyone else's aren't because *you* heard them before.
Hey, I included links to one study, and related articles. Anyone who wants to can research the rest. So, since I've provided a starting point, YOU prove that I'm wrong. Oh, right, you're too fat and lazy to, you lame piece of shit! All you can do is whine about ho I have to do all the research, even though I've already read the other study (it's not google-able - its in a dead tree journal you actually have to pay for).
And while you're at it do me a favour and foe me - I'm collecting freaks, and you'd fit right in with the rest of them.
My point was (if you had read the article) that his claim that he was able to measure the strength of the passwords was flawed. There were passwords that myspace couldn't have accepted as valid passwords because they require at least one digit (so "fuckyou" couldn't have been a password).
The "known bad" data should have been dropped immediately.
When I was only working with oe monitor, I noticed that after long stints, I had a harder time turning my head to see to either side on the drive home. This is as serious a safety issue as too-tight ties for pilots (half of all people wear their ties too tight, and this restricts blood flow to the extent that there's a measurable impact on vision - iirc, it was summarized in Psychology Today)
Hey, google is your friend. As you can tell by reading the links, this builds on previus studies, one of which was the "business meeting with the golden retriever" scenario I mentioned (though it may not be generally available via the net because it was originally published on dead trees).
So stuff your "I call bullshit" without first going down to the library and looking... or at least doing an online search (you don't claim to have even done a cursory search online).
So they'd rather pay people to work at a lower level of efficiency - its a false economy, especially if it leads to more mistakes (a.k.a. bugs) that need to be "featured".
Better to pay people to telecommute, and they'lls ave money, electricity, heating, cooling, etc.
"Now, I am changing my password to cookie321, no one will see that coming."
No, no - you have to change it to "wookie321". The glove won't fit, and Endor something or other...
Seriously, who even cares about the passwords to myspace. The "numeric strength" so-called "analysis" was screwed up. Since myspace requires a number in the password, a lot of people put their name and a digit or two after it as their account password. They also sometimes screw up their email address info, which is how you can end up suddenly "p0wning" someone else's myspace account (and how the #@%^$ am I supposed to contact them and tell them - "Hey, you have a typo in your email address - I'm getting all these stupid "'I heart cats' would like to be added as one of your friends" messages...
Yes, its a valid account. but since they changed their email info (must be one letter off from mine or something) they have no way of changing it back... and I don't know what their email address is.
Its not just an "improvement in morale." So someone doesn't like dogs. What's he going to do - kick a handicapped person's service dog?
I don't think so.
The biggest culprit nowadays is keyboard trays and chairs that are too low.
People get a keyboard tray to keep the keyboard at a "more natural" height. So now, they're sitting too far from their screen. So, what do they do? Instead of moving the screen closer, they hunch forward.
The easier solution is to put the keyboad on the desk, and raise the chair height. This also insures less neck strain because the screen's top is below eye level, even for a 21" screen.
Check it out - walk through the cubes and see how many people are hunched forward.
Raise your seat 3 inches, move the keyboard and mouse onto the desktop, and your posture will improve.
Not for coding. Not for concentrating. Not for just thinking for a good half-hour about the best way to tackle a problem.
I want a door I can close. I want table/desk/shelf space to spread out manuals, etc., where I can leave a few printouts, whatever I need to do. A so-called "computer desk" in a cube is the worst possible arrangement for coding
AT & T did a study, and found that to be most productive, you need 32 square feet of surface (desk, table, shelving, etc). When's the last time you saw decent shelf space in a cube farm?
I agree that a badly behaved dog is a horror. I've got 3 dogs, and someone across the back has this tiny yippie thing that, when it barks, they keep shouting at it to shut up - like the dog is going to listen. This can go on for an hour. They don't get it - they're too lazy to get up off their fat arse and look the dog in the eye and tell it to be quiet.
Contrast that to 2 nights ago - a dog barking for almost half an hour at 2 in the morning in another neighbours back yard - and none of my dogs made a noise.
BTW - I think that, with all the video camera cell phones about, there should be a $300.00 bounty for catching people who don't "poop and scoop" - paid for by the perp.
If you can increase the operating temperature, you'll have a more efficient engine. I remember there was talk about making an engine with no lubricants, just ceramics, thus allowing a lot higher temperatures, and greater efficiency. The problem is, what do you use as a bearing?
Its not about what you like and don't like... its about people's ability and right to earn a living. I work a lot better with at least one dog present. It doesn't have to do anything except sleep at my feet or behind my chair.
I don't particularly like pineapple on pizza, but that doesn't mean I'll impose my preferences on others.
Back more on-topic... there are too many of us who fixate on the screen, staring rigidly in one direction. Its not just your overall posture... even your neck muscles get stiff holding your head pointed in one direction. Dual or triple monitors tend to aleviate this to a certain extent - you have to move your head a bit back and forth. Taking a break and reaching down to put the hound does the same thing.
Have you ever tried it? Just google for "dog blood pressure". Other studies also showed that the mere presence of a dog during a meeting led to fewer "pissing contests" between meeting participants, and more productive meetings, even if all the dog did was sit curled up in a corner ignoring everyone. Not having a pet in the office is costing businesses billions a year in sick days, lost productivity, extra medical costs, etc.
Therapy, Blunts Home Blood Pressure Responses to Mental Stress
Abstract---- In the present study, we evaluated the effect of a nonevaluative social support intervention (pet ownership) on blood pressure response to mental stress before and during ACE inhibitor therapy. Forty-eight hypertensive individuals participated in an experiment at home and in the physician's office. Participants were randomized to an experimental group with assignment of pet ownership in addition to lisinopril (20 mg/d) or to a control group with only lisinopril (20 mg/d). On each study day, blood pressure, heart rate, and plasma renin activity were recorded at baseline and after each mental stressor (serial subtraction and speech). Before drug therapy, mean responses to mental stress did not differ significantly between experimental and control groups in heart rate (94 [SD 6.8] versus 93 [6.8] bpm), systolic blood pressure (182 [8.0] versus 181 [8.3] mm Hg), diastolic blood pressure (120 [6.6] versus 119 [7.9] mm Hg), or plasma renin activity (9.4 [0.59] versus 9.3 [0.57] ng mL-1 h-1). Lisinopril therapy lowered resting blood pressure by {approx}35/20 mm Hg in both groups, but responses to mental stress were significantly lower among pet owners relative to those who only received lisinopril (P<0.0001; heart rate 81 [6.3] versus 91 [6.5] bpm, systolic blood pressure 131 [6.8] versus 141 [7.8] mm Hg, diastolic blood pressure 92 [6.3] versus 100 [6.8] mm Hg, and plasma renin activity 13.9 [0.92] versus 16.1 [0.58] ng mL-1 h-1). We conclude that ACE inhibitor therapy alone lowers resting blood pressure, whereas increased social support through pet ownership lowers blood pressure response to mental stress.
As the experiment began, the subjects started controlling their blood pressure with lisinopril, an inhibitor of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE). Although lisinopril reduced systolic pressure to an average of 123 mm, it was far less effective in controlling the rise in pressure that occurs during stress.
Better than drugs!
At the outset, half the broker-guinea pigs were directed to choose a cat or a dog as a pet. The fun part came when these guinea pigs were asked to do mental arithmetic -- or (we love it!) -- to respond to an experimenter who, posing as a client, demanded: "Upon your advice, I lost $86,000. What are you going to do about it?"
The demand stressed the non-pet owners enough to essentially cancel the benefit of the ACE inhibitor, Allen says, yet the systolic pressure among pet owners rose only 9 mm. Furthermore, their pulse rose by 10 beats per minute, less than half the 21-beat rise seen in the control group.
In other words, pets were much better at reducing the stress-induced rise in blood pressure than the drug.
Pets prove better than drug for high blood pressure
High blood pressure has become one of the most common health problems in the country today, a byproduct of high-stress and poor diet. To correct the problem, many medical doctors have turned to drugs, such as ACE inhibitors.
... when people were "expected" to be able to bring a dog to the office. You could get up and walk the dog on a regular basis, thus ensuring both a break from the keyboard (and a reduced threat of RSI to the wrists) and a few minutes stretching your legs.
That's one thing I hate about changing jobs... it takes a while to "break in" the new employer to the idea that bringing a dog to the office isn't some sort of "radical" thing, but tht it will improve health and productivity.
People were able to duplicate the vapor carb trick by running their fuel feed around the rad a few times - it worked because carbs back in those days were notoriously inefficient (8 to 10 mpg for a car!) and anything that let more fuel be vaporized before it entered the combustion chamber meant more fuel burnt, hence more efficiency.
Of course, on a hot summer day - vapor lock.
Because of the way carburetors work (lowering air pressure by speeding up air flow through a restriction) they can actually have ice form on their insides on hot humid days - pre=warming the fuel helped ensure that you could get b on a leaner mixer. This was the idea behind the heat riser valve.
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I have absolutely no problem with that. Both Clinton and Bush should have been impeached.
Both of them contributed to the decline in esteem of the presidency, as did most of the presidents in the last 40 years.
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1057
Interesting to see that the only president who people outranks Bush in the failure score is Nixon. Rounding out the bottom 4, we have Johnson and Viet Nam, and Ford screwing up by pardoning Nixon and saying he had to, when he clearly didn't.
That's the one ... I can never remember his last name, but he's a real comic genius!
The end result of your statement is circular logic at its finest:
If you have proof that's valid ...
If you already have the proof, why investigate?
The simple fact is that more than half the population feels the election was stolen - an investigation is needed, even if it wasn't - to restore faith in the system.
If the election was in fact stolen, "moving on" is the worst thing you can do, since its a direct attack on both the constitution and the legitimacy of government - and through that, an attack on the US and its citizens. Finding the criminals who helped steal it would be the right thing.
I know what you mean ... people really mis-match their fonts. Couple that with bad drivers and there are some screens where I'm going "you can't actually READ that, can you?"
This is particularly bad for the early adopters who spent big bucks for those tiny 15" or less lcd screens and are trying to get their money's worth by using the highest res their card puts out.
"mean I could just say that I'm sure there is a study out there that says having a pet lizard decreases your risk for cancer, and just tell every who doubts me to go to the library and look for it."
They could. What's the big deal ... this is slashdot. BTW, cancer-sniffing dogs were belittled for a long time as well - now they're accepted as being damned good at screening. Instead of trying to wall ourselves off as a "special being" rather than a mammal that can share our space with other mammals of different genus, we should be trying to integrate them more into our lives. Just the $$$ saved would be enormous.
To put it on-topic - poor posture isn't something you want, for either sex. Just the back pain problems should be enough to actively seek ways to improve posture. The act of walking a dog on a leash on a regular basis can't hurt (unless you get hit by a truck while walking the dog, or some similar accident); just the break from the 8-hour-sit-in-one-place routine, along with the chance to get away from the desk and let the problem sort of "gel" in the back of your mind, should be enough of a financial and health incentive to encourage dogs in the corporate environment.
Plus, you've never walked into the office of the daughter of one of the largest real-estate developers in Canada and seen 2 motionless great danes, one one each side of her desk, just sitting there, staring. You can be sure that NOBODY is rude in her office, no sexual harrassment, no shouting, etc. Everyone who goes in there stands straighter, if only so they can run faster if they have to :-)
I agree, a voice over a loudspeaker doesn't make things more secure.
It reminds me of the comedy routine where the guy goes:
Having police sitting in front of cameras and shouting over loudspeakers instead of being on the ground would have been a recipe for disaster at the recent Dawson College shooting. The death toll would have been much higher. We'd have had it all on hard disk, but that's cold consolation.
No - this account has been around for quite some time. They just changed their email address, and somehow mixed up some letters, and it ended up going to one of my accounts. For now, I'm just ignoring it. What else is there to do, really. Its just someone's myspace account, and hopefully they've created another one, and the old one will die from being ignored.
If I were the nosy type, I might have snooped through the account and find some personal detail or other that would let me identify the person, but that doesn't feel right.
No, I didn't get that far in the thread, and you're making a lot of assumptions about how I read/post. Is someone supposed to go and read the entire thread, all the posts, then re-readit, just to be sure it hasn't changed, etc., and that the various servers that serve up slashdot are all in sync, before posting, and then post anon just to make sure they're not accused of karma whoring? I don't think so.
You probably also get all bent out of shape over "who shot first - Hans Solo or whoever ..." You must be a real riot at parties, explaining why jokes you tell are funny, while everyone else's aren't because *you* heard them before.
Hey, I included links to one study, and related articles. Anyone who wants to can research the rest. So, since I've provided a starting point, YOU prove that I'm wrong. Oh, right, you're too fat and lazy to, you lame piece of shit! All you can do is whine about ho I have to do all the research, even though I've already read the other study (it's not google-able - its in a dead tree journal you actually have to pay for).
And while you're at it do me a favour and foe me - I'm collecting freaks, and you'd fit right in with the rest of them.
"My password for the site has no number in it."
My point was (if you had read the article) that his claim that he was able to measure the strength of the passwords was flawed. There were passwords that myspace couldn't have accepted as valid passwords because they require at least one digit (so "fuckyou" couldn't have been a password).
The "known bad" data should have been dropped immediately.
When I was only working with oe monitor, I noticed that after long stints, I had a harder time turning my head to see to either side on the drive home. This is as serious a safety issue as too-tight ties for pilots (half of all people wear their ties too tight, and this restricts blood flow to the extent that there's a measurable impact on vision - iirc, it was summarized in Psychology Today)
Hey, google is your friend. As you can tell by reading the links, this builds on previus studies, one of which was the "business meeting with the golden retriever" scenario I mentioned (though it may not be generally available via the net because it was originally published on dead trees).
So stuff your "I call bullshit" without first going down to the library and looking ... or at least doing an online search (you don't claim to have even done a cursory search online).
So they'd rather pay people to work at a lower level of efficiency - its a false economy, especially if it leads to more mistakes (a.k.a. bugs) that need to be "featured".
Better to pay people to telecommute, and they'lls ave money, electricity, heating, cooling, etc.
"Now, I am changing my password to cookie321, no one will see that coming."
No, no - you have to change it to "wookie321". The glove won't fit, and Endor something or other ...
Seriously, who even cares about the passwords to myspace. The "numeric strength" so-called "analysis" was screwed up. Since myspace requires a number in the password, a lot of people put their name and a digit or two after it as their account password. They also sometimes screw up their email address info, which is how you can end up suddenly "p0wning" someone else's myspace account (and how the #@%^$ am I supposed to contact them and tell them - "Hey, you have a typo in your email address - I'm getting all these stupid "'I heart cats' would like to be added as one of your friends" messages ...
Yes, its a valid account. but since they changed their email info (must be one letter off from mine or something) they have no way of changing it back ... and I don't know what their email address is.
How did you get the combination of my luggage?
Its not just an "improvement in morale." So someone doesn't like dogs. What's he going to do - kick a handicapped person's service dog?
I don't think so.
The biggest culprit nowadays is keyboard trays and chairs that are too low.
People get a keyboard tray to keep the keyboard at a "more natural" height. So now, they're sitting too far from their screen. So, what do they do? Instead of moving the screen closer, they hunch forward.
The easier solution is to put the keyboad on the desk, and raise the chair height. This also insures less neck strain because the screen's top is below eye level, even for a 21" screen.
Check it out - walk through the cubes and see how many people are hunched forward.
Raise your seat 3 inches, move the keyboard and mouse onto the desktop, and your posture will improve.
Cubes don't work. Period.
Not for coding. Not for concentrating. Not for just thinking for a good half-hour about the best way to tackle a problem.
I want a door I can close. I want table/desk/shelf space to spread out manuals, etc., where I can leave a few printouts, whatever I need to do. A so-called "computer desk" in a cube is the worst possible arrangement for coding
AT & T did a study, and found that to be most productive, you need 32 square feet of surface (desk, table, shelving, etc). When's the last time you saw decent shelf space in a cube farm?
I agree that a badly behaved dog is a horror. I've got 3 dogs, and someone across the back has this tiny yippie thing that, when it barks, they keep shouting at it to shut up - like the dog is going to listen. This can go on for an hour. They don't get it - they're too lazy to get up off their fat arse and look the dog in the eye and tell it to be quiet.
Contrast that to 2 nights ago - a dog barking for almost half an hour at 2 in the morning in another neighbours back yard - and none of my dogs made a noise.
BTW - I think that, with all the video camera cell phones about, there should be a $300.00 bounty for catching people who don't "poop and scoop" - paid for by the perp.
If you can increase the operating temperature, you'll have a more efficient engine. I remember there was talk about making an engine with no lubricants, just ceramics, thus allowing a lot higher temperatures, and greater efficiency. The problem is, what do you use as a bearing?
Its not about what you like and don't like ... its about people's ability and right to earn a living. I work a lot better with at least one dog present. It doesn't have to do anything except sleep at my feet or behind my chair.
I don't particularly like pineapple on pizza, but that doesn't mean I'll impose my preferences on others.
Back more on-topic ... there are too many of us who fixate on the screen, staring rigidly in one direction. Its not just your overall posture ... even your neck muscles get stiff holding your head pointed in one direction. Dual or triple monitors tend to aleviate this to a certain extent - you have to move your head a bit back and forth. Taking a break and reaching down to put the hound does the same thing.
Have you ever tried it? Just google for "dog blood pressure". Other studies also showed that the mere presence of a dog during a meeting led to fewer "pissing contests" between meeting participants, and more productive meetings, even if all the dog did was sit curled up in a corner ignoring everyone. Not having a pet in the office is costing businesses billions a year in sick days, lost productivity, extra medical costs, etc.
http://hyper.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/38/4 /815 American Heart Association: Pet Ownership, but Not ACE Inhibitor
http://whyfiles.org/shorties/cat_stress.html
http://www.wcanews.com/archives/2000/Feb/feb00j.ht m
Isn't there some sort of law where you are? I know that where I am, there is, but I feel uncomfortable pushing things the first few months.
That's one thing I hate about changing jobs ... it takes a while to "break in" the new employer to the idea that bringing a dog to the office isn't some sort of "radical" thing, but tht it will improve health and productivity.
People were able to duplicate the vapor carb trick by running their fuel feed around the rad a few times - it worked because carbs back in those days were notoriously inefficient (8 to 10 mpg for a car!) and anything that let more fuel be vaporized before it entered the combustion chamber meant more fuel burnt, hence more efficiency.
Of course, on a hot summer day - vapor lock.
Because of the way carburetors work (lowering air pressure by speeding up air flow through a restriction) they can actually have ice form on their insides on hot humid days - pre=warming the fuel helped ensure that you could get b on a leaner mixer. This was the idea behind the heat riser valve.