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But, money doesn't buy happiness. My girlfriend left me yesterday, because I don't take her out enough, and I don't pay enough attention to her. She doesn't like that my pager goes off at odd hours, and that I get phone calls from 9am until sometime after 1am, depending on where the clients are. She doesn't like that I work a lot, and lately have frequently been out of town for work for between a week and two months at a time.
Trust me. If she's like that, it's good news. You'll appreciate it soon enough. Alone sux. With the wrong person sux worse. Find someone who'll treat you better and you'll be a lot happier.
Well, by the time it hits anywhere that is relatively public, it's encrypted in some fashion
Dude, I know they're expired, but you can't get much more public than/. and they didn't look all that encrypted to me. Besides chances are good that there are a few more of those passwords on your system.
So you're basically annoying your users by forcing them to use obscure^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsecure passwords, then broadcasting the insecure ones? Do you really think the biggest problem here is using windows machines??? I've worked for banks and insurance companies that have run windows networks that to my knowledge have never been hacked.
ROTFLMAO AJAX is no different than any other programming set of tools. If used correctly it rocks, otherwise it sucks.
All programming languages, paradigms and environments are not created equal.
Make sure you use the right tool for the right job (don't try to use a hacksaw to hammer in a nail), but also make sure the tool's of good quality. Don't try to saw a piece of wood with a blunt rusty hacksaw circa 1960. Of course you're out of luck if that's all that's out there on the market.
I couldn't tell you if AJAX tools are up to snuff, as I haven't had the pleasure yet.
This is a Tasmanian senator. Tasmania is an Island long associated with jokes about incest and redneck stupidity. For you Americans think West Virginia style jokes (except that Tasmania is a very cold place and it's population quite tiny).
What you experienced is standard operating procedure for any organization with even a half-assed security policy.
Any organisation that's going to be afraid of what their IT professional is going to do once they've decided to leave, and who is still under an employment contract has real problems. If you can't trust the people you employ when they're obligated to you, why can you trust them to stay when they haven't handed in their resignation?
Perhaps the culture is a little different in Australia, but I've never been locked out of a computer system just because I resigned. They've gotten every day's work out of me that they could - it was expected that I remain professional.
Honestly if someone's going to do damage to a company they'd just do it before they send their letter of resignation. If you can't trust your staff under the usual safeguards once they say they're leaving, you don't have a decent security policy to speak of anyway.
Access should be terminated on the last day of employment.
did you give them cause to think that you might "do something terrible" to their orgranisation. If you did no such thing, then accept that is how the world (or at least that organisation) works, and enjoy your two weeks leave - leave may or may not be scarce at your next job but this is a good opportunity for yourself to unwind between jobs. If you either don't need to unwind, or need the cash, see if they'll let you start your new job early.
Some companies are set up to err on the side of caution, and sometimes the rules don't make sense. (I've found that "Human Resources" in some organisations can have a culture that means every decision they make doesn't make any sense externally).
If on the other hand you did do something to make them believe you might damage the company, then it isn't your resignation that you need to focus on when it comes to professionalism.
Let me guess, you're a virgin. How can any man say that getting laid is not priority one?
Let me guess. You're in your late teens or early twenties and sex is all shiny and new to you, besides you don't know how to get it very often, so it's your top priority. If your attitude is that getting laid is priority one, chances are that's why it stays number one - it's a viscious cycle - women can smell desperation and it ain't pretty. What's more mindlessly going after sex can get you into a heap of trouble. You can lose your money or go to jail for example all because you meet someone that's willing to give you some sex.
For the record, I'm actually engaged, and while my sex life is none of your business I will say I'm not deprived. I have gone without in the past (before I met my fiancee) and you know what - it sucked, just not so badly I'd put it ahead of everything else.
...when someone's dog is run over because their owner calls on one of these gadgets and the dog is distracted. I mean most humans would be confused if a voice started coming out of some place on their body. I can just picture one of my dogs cocking his head from side to side in confusion.
No you don't understand. They put the population with the gene in with the women. All male IQs go down by the amount they observed when they're placed next to females. Females do this too but only for the males they find attractive. Trouble is most males find any female attractive.
Let's say you're a genius, some child prodigy who's super at calculus or something.
Can you charm women and get laid?
Given this is number one on your list of things I'd hazard a guess that you: a) Are desperate b) Don't have any understanding of how to relate to women c) Not all that smart
There's more to life than getting laid. Even when you're not getting any it shouldn't be number one on your priority list!
Actually a better analogy would be a car that has "do not drive over 40" in the owner's manual. It's not fit for purpose. If you bought a new car, you expect it to be able to handle the speed most other cars on the road can comfortably do. If you bought a game console for pity sake, you'd be reasonable to expect to be able to put the thing on your carpeted livingroom floor!!!
Oh please $1200 for a military grade nano my left foot. A willingness to fix problems quickly (turnaround of days) and to redesign would be sufficient. Ipod screen scratches could be fixed with 5 sheets of 20 cent perspex with tape or adhesive on the edges. That'd add a dollar.
In the two years I've had a bad Dell laptop (and am having fun trying to get it fixed under extended warranty automatically provided since I purchased with a credit card - ever try to get Dell to say that "if it had happened in the warranty period it WOULD HAVe been covered" when they're under no obligation to do so? Not to mention the keyboard has warn into the screen and I'm not going to bother trying to get that fixed). I've also had a bad Nikon D70 SLR (which the authorised repairer and retailer here refused to acknowledge had a problem - when I provided video evidence and threatened to go to fair trading they replaced the camera - only took about 4 1/2 months and 3 round trips to the service centre). On a lesser scale I've had 2 mice die within 2 years. Everything I've mentioned here was treated very well.
The laptop and camera cost me a total of about 1 1/2 months net salary (more like 3 months when you count accessories, but they did survive). That'd be a lot to have to re-spend every 1-2 years because manufacturers are trying to pinch pennies. This did not use to be the status quo. In living memory if a manufacturer got it badly wrong they'd replace the item and apologise. I think we've gone too much in the direction of cheap disposable crapola, and I have no sympathy for companies trying to compete by releasing shoddy rubbish, then providing shoddy service.
One line reply. One paragraph explanation. Noone ever tell you the joke's not funny if you have to explain it??? As it happens I do drive a Commodore, but no it's not "riced up".
That vocal minority is responsible for a majority of accidents. We notice them when they splat up against us. They're the whole excuse for all the speeding law and infrastructure you see about, the real reason being revenue raising.
Irrelevant to 99% of people who do not have the skill to program the software and don't want to learn those skills. If it doesn't work, it's broken. Period
as do others who care about fixing most problems - unlike large corporations that care only about adding new features and raking in more money.
Most people feel more comfortable with a paid company working on fixes most important to customers than volunteers who only work on the things important to themselves. You think people actually prefer to pay hundreds of dollars for software without good reason?
Most commercial software is crap, and I don't like having to put up with all the control they force on users.
Most open source is crap too, and while there are less controls, they're still there.
Most hardware I want will work with unix. I find that doing a spot of research before buying most things is simply common sense
Irrelevant. Some research is fine. Lots of gotchas and many manufacturers offering poor support for Unix/Linux is not. Its like running a car on LPG. Not as convenient because not every petrol station has it.
As seeing how I miss out on all the backwards incompatibilities I also come out ahead on interoperability
Irrelevant if it costs time or money to move a business across due to incompatibilities. Smaller things have broken a business when not managed very carefully.
You're saying you prefer to run Linux. That's fine. You know what you're doing, and so do I. Time for you to face some harsh realities. You shouldn't have to be a mechanic to go out and buy a car. You shouldn't have to be a computer scientist to go out and buy a computer. What's more even if you do have the skill you might not want to bother. I have a very good friend at work who's an extremely capable programmer. He doesn't use firefox as his default browser because "IE just works. I don't have to fiddle with downloads for extensions etc. or worry about upgrading every minor version". If there are two systems, one where you have to be skilled and one where it's an easy to use tool do not resent people for choosing the easier of the two. If you want to tinker, go right ahead.
If traffic engineers want this speed on a stretch of hypothetical road to drop, they do this by changing the road surface. Narrows, curves, crests, inclines, will all reduce the 85th percentile speed.
Three problems with this.
Firstly if a driver is unfamiliar with the road, and therefore unaware of the traffic calming measures coming up ahead and may speed on into a dangerous situation. You therefore create a hazard not just for that driver but everyone else around them.
Secondly those traffic calming measures also add to the difficulty and hazard in driving when other circumstances take place: eg. wet weather, roadworks
Thirdly, those familiar with the road tend to overestimate their own abilities. There's been a lot of roadwork in the area in which I live for the last two years, and I've seen idiots doing 70km/hr where the limit is 40, and with good reason.
You're right that no one wants to crash. You're wrong about people being sensible about it.
But in all honesty speeding fines etc. are all about politics and revenue. There has never been any genuine interest in reducing crashes. Car manufacturers have done more to make cars safe than anyone (and they're doing it for selfish reasons too - to sell cars).
Only on slashdot will you find posts so naive and ignorant, and yet so brazen about it.
Wrong on all counts.
1. slashdot is not the only place you find posts "so naive and arrogant" yet "brazen". There's the rest of the net to consider. An analogy to your statement is saying that your local burger joint is the only place you'll find burgers.
2. As unpopular a view as it is I agree that IP law is so badly broken it should be modified beyond recognition. These laws were made at a time when copying something required effort. It cost a lot to make the copy and you passed that on to the consumer. Today entire encyclopedias can be copied in seconds.
Well 1.0.7 broke very badly for me. Had to constantly alt-tab in windows to get basic functionality back - I'm talking arrow keys, page up/down, copy/paste, open in new tab.
Slashdot Mirror
But, money doesn't buy happiness. My girlfriend left me yesterday, because I don't take her out enough, and I don't pay enough attention to her. She doesn't like that my pager goes off at odd hours, and that I get phone calls from 9am until sometime after 1am, depending on where the clients are. She doesn't like that I work a lot, and lately have frequently been out of town for work for between a week and two months at a time.
Trust me. If she's like that, it's good news. You'll appreciate it soon enough. Alone sux. With the wrong person sux worse. Find someone who'll treat you better and you'll be a lot happier.
if (manufacturerIsSony(manufacturer, os)) {
avoidLawSuite(os);
}
public void avoidLawSuite(os) {
die(os)
}
public void die(os) {
if (osFromMicrosoft(os)) {
haltWithShinyBlueScreenOfDeath();
} else {
segFault();
}
}
Dear Penthouse,
;-)
You'll never believe this really happened to me but....
Well, by the time it hits anywhere that is relatively public, it's encrypted in some fashion
/. and they didn't look all that encrypted to me. Besides chances are good that there are a few more of those passwords on your system.
Dude, I know they're expired, but you can't get much more public than
So you're basically annoying your users by forcing them to use obscure^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsecure passwords, then broadcasting the insecure ones? Do you really think the biggest problem here is using windows machines??? I've worked for banks and insurance companies that have run windows networks that to my knowledge have never been hacked.
For that matter WHAT are you thinking???
I don't think I'd feel comfortable taking 4 weeks+ vacation from any job.
Congratulations. You have been indoctrinated.
ROTFLMAO AJAX is no different than any other programming set of tools. If used correctly it rocks, otherwise it sucks.
All programming languages, paradigms and environments are not created equal.
Make sure you use the right tool for the right job (don't try to use a hacksaw to hammer in a nail), but also make sure the tool's of good quality. Don't try to saw a piece of wood with a blunt rusty hacksaw circa 1960. Of course you're out of luck if that's all that's out there on the market.
I couldn't tell you if AJAX tools are up to snuff, as I haven't had the pleasure yet.
This is a Tasmanian senator. Tasmania is an Island long associated with jokes about incest and redneck stupidity. For you Americans think West Virginia style jokes (except that Tasmania is a very cold place and it's population quite tiny).
What you experienced is standard operating procedure for any organization with even a half-assed security policy.
Any organisation that's going to be afraid of what their IT professional is going to do once they've decided to leave, and who is still under an employment contract has real problems. If you can't trust the people you employ when they're obligated to you, why can you trust them to stay when they haven't handed in their resignation?
Perhaps the culture is a little different in Australia, but I've never been locked out of a computer system just because I resigned. They've gotten every day's work out of me that they could - it was expected that I remain professional.
Honestly if someone's going to do damage to a company they'd just do it before they send their letter of resignation. If you can't trust your staff under the usual safeguards once they say they're leaving, you don't have a decent security policy to speak of anyway.
Access should be terminated on the last day of employment.
did you give them cause to think that you might "do something terrible" to their orgranisation. If you did no such thing, then accept that is how the world (or at least that organisation) works, and enjoy your two weeks leave - leave may or may not be scarce at your next job but this is a good opportunity for yourself to unwind between jobs. If you either don't need to unwind, or need the cash, see if they'll let you start your new job early.
Some companies are set up to err on the side of caution, and sometimes the rules don't make sense. (I've found that "Human Resources" in some organisations can have a culture that means every decision they make doesn't make any sense externally).
If on the other hand you did do something to make them believe you might damage the company, then it isn't your resignation that you need to focus on when it comes to professionalism.
Here's a site you might find a use for:
http://www.epigee.org/guide/stds.html
Yeah have fun with that oh "man of the world".
Let me guess, you're a virgin. How can any man say that getting laid is not priority one?
Let me guess. You're in your late teens or early twenties and sex is all shiny and new to you, besides you don't know how to get it very often, so it's your top priority. If your attitude is that getting laid is priority one, chances are that's why it stays number one - it's a viscious cycle - women can smell desperation and it ain't pretty. What's more mindlessly going after sex can get you into a heap of trouble. You can lose your money or go to jail for example all because you meet someone that's willing to give you some sex.
For the record, I'm actually engaged, and while my sex life is none of your business I will say I'm not deprived. I have gone without in the past (before I met my fiancee) and you know what - it sucked, just not so badly I'd put it ahead of everything else.
...when someone's dog is run over because their owner calls on one of these gadgets and the dog is distracted. I mean most humans would be confused if a voice started coming out of some place on their body. I can just picture one of my dogs cocking his head from side to side in confusion.
No you don't understand. They put the population with the gene in with the women. All male IQs go down by the amount they observed when they're placed next to females. Females do this too but only for the males they find attractive. Trouble is most males find any female attractive.
Let's say you're a genius, some child prodigy who's super at calculus or something.
Can you charm women and get laid?
Given this is number one on your list of things I'd hazard a guess that you:
a) Are desperate
b) Don't have any understanding of how to relate to women
c) Not all that smart
There's more to life than getting laid. Even when you're not getting any it shouldn't be number one on your priority list!
Actually a better analogy would be a car that has "do not drive over 40" in the owner's manual. It's not fit for purpose. If you bought a new car, you expect it to be able to handle the speed most other cars on the road can comfortably do. If you bought a game console for pity sake, you'd be reasonable to expect to be able to put the thing on your carpeted livingroom floor!!!
Oh please $1200 for a military grade nano my left foot. A willingness to fix problems quickly (turnaround of days) and to redesign would be sufficient. Ipod screen scratches could be fixed with 5 sheets of 20 cent perspex with tape or adhesive on the edges. That'd add a dollar.
In the two years I've had a bad Dell laptop (and am having fun trying to get it fixed under extended warranty automatically provided since I purchased with a credit card - ever try to get Dell to say that "if it had happened in the warranty period it WOULD HAVe been covered" when they're under no obligation to do so? Not to mention the keyboard has warn into the screen and I'm not going to bother trying to get that fixed). I've also had a bad Nikon D70 SLR (which the authorised repairer and retailer here refused to acknowledge had a problem - when I provided video evidence and threatened to go to fair trading they replaced the camera - only took about 4 1/2 months and 3 round trips to the service centre). On a lesser scale I've had 2 mice die within 2 years. Everything I've mentioned here was treated very well.
The laptop and camera cost me a total of about 1 1/2 months net salary (more like 3 months when you count accessories, but they did survive). That'd be a lot to have to re-spend every 1-2 years because manufacturers are trying to pinch pennies. This did not use to be the status quo. In living memory if a manufacturer got it badly wrong they'd replace the item and apologise. I think we've gone too much in the direction of cheap disposable crapola, and I have no sympathy for companies trying to compete by releasing shoddy rubbish, then providing shoddy service.
At least you don't deny the coward part.
One line reply. One paragraph explanation. Noone ever tell you the joke's not funny if you have to explain it??? As it happens I do drive a Commodore, but no it's not "riced up".
That vocal minority is responsible for a majority of accidents. We notice them when they splat up against us. They're the whole excuse for all the speeding law and infrastructure you see about, the real reason being revenue raising.
Only a kid? 19 is not a child. Only a twit more like.
I have access to the parts that are broken
Irrelevant to 99% of people who do not have the skill to program the software and don't want to learn those skills. If it doesn't work, it's broken. Period
as do others who care about fixing most problems - unlike large corporations
that care only about adding new features and raking in more money.
Most people feel more comfortable with a paid company working on fixes most important to customers than volunteers who only work on the things important to themselves. You think people actually prefer to pay hundreds of dollars for software without good reason?
Most commercial software is crap, and I don't like having to put up with all the control they force on users.
Most open source is crap too, and while there are less controls, they're still there.
Most hardware I want will work with unix. I find that doing a spot of research before buying most things is simply common sense
Irrelevant. Some research is fine. Lots of gotchas and many manufacturers offering poor support for Unix/Linux is not. Its like running a car on LPG. Not as convenient because not every petrol station has it.
As seeing how I miss out on all the backwards incompatibilities I
also come out ahead on interoperability
Irrelevant if it costs time or money to move a business across due to incompatibilities. Smaller things have broken a business when not managed very carefully.
You're saying you prefer to run Linux. That's fine. You know what you're doing, and so do I. Time for you to face some harsh realities. You shouldn't have to be a mechanic to go out and buy a car. You shouldn't have to be a computer scientist to go out and buy a computer. What's more even if you do have the skill you might not want to bother. I have a very good friend at work who's an extremely capable programmer. He doesn't use firefox as his default browser because "IE just works. I don't have to fiddle with downloads for extensions etc. or worry about upgrading every minor version". If there are two systems, one where you have to be skilled and one where it's an easy to use tool do not resent people for choosing the easier of the two. If you want to tinker, go right ahead.
If traffic engineers want this speed on a stretch of hypothetical road to drop, they do this by changing the road surface. Narrows, curves, crests, inclines, will all reduce the 85th percentile speed.
Three problems with this.
Firstly if a driver is unfamiliar with the road, and therefore unaware of the traffic calming measures coming up ahead and may speed on into a dangerous situation. You therefore create a hazard not just for that driver but everyone else around them.
Secondly those traffic calming measures also add to the difficulty and hazard in driving when other circumstances take place: eg. wet weather, roadworks
Thirdly, those familiar with the road tend to overestimate their own abilities. There's been a lot of roadwork in the area in which I live for the last two years, and I've seen idiots doing 70km/hr where the limit is 40, and with good reason.
You're right that no one wants to crash. You're wrong about people being sensible about it.
But in all honesty speeding fines etc. are all about politics and revenue. There has never been any genuine interest in reducing crashes. Car manufacturers have done more to make cars safe than anyone (and they're doing it for selfish reasons too - to sell cars).
Okay pal, popularity is not important. Microsoft has hundreds of billions that say otherwise, but you're right and I'm wrong.
Bloody Slashdot. Argument for the sake of argument, whether it makes sense or not.
Only on slashdot will you find posts so naive and ignorant, and yet so brazen about it.
Wrong on all counts.
1. slashdot is not the only place you find posts "so naive and arrogant" yet "brazen". There's the rest of the net to consider. An analogy to your statement is saying that your local burger joint is the only place you'll find burgers.
2. As unpopular a view as it is I agree that IP law is so badly broken it should be modified beyond recognition. These laws were made at a time when copying something required effort. It cost a lot to make the copy and you passed that on to the consumer. Today entire encyclopedias can be copied in seconds.
Well 1.0.7 broke very badly for me. Had to constantly alt-tab in windows to get basic functionality back - I'm talking arrow keys, page up/down, copy/paste, open in new tab.
I'd argue 1.0.7 isn't how it should be done.