Bob Porter: Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately.
Peter Gibbons: Well, I wouldn't exactly say I've been missing it, Bob.
Bob Slydell: You see, what we're trying to do is get a feeling for how people spend their time at work so if you would, would you walk us through a typical day, for you?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Bob Slydell: Great.
Peter Gibbons: Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh - after that I sorta space out for an hour.
Bob Porter: Da-uh? Space out?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
Peter Gibbons: You see, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't even care.
Bob Porter: Don't- don't care?
Peter Gibbons: It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation? And here's another thing, I have eight different bosses right now.
Bob Porter: Eight?
Peter Gibbons: Eight, Bob. So that means when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.
I meant they're going to stop doing the thing they were caught doing in this particular manner. Of course they're going to continue doing all the other shit we don't know about yet.
Well there's privacy and there's privacy. If all they can get is the location of my phone, I don't care. It's information any idiot stalker could get with a pen and a notebook.
When most people say "Security by obscurity" they mean "there's no door in the fucking doorway", not "there's a lock that can be picked on the door in the fucking doorway".
You don't need a belief in science to be a good engineer - most engineers are pretty damn useless at science. He says he's got the math worked out and I'm inclined to believe him.
My personal favorite theory is if we take all the people who believe apollo was faked to the moon, would they actually walk outside without a space suit?
I don't see the logic in your theory.
Do you think that people who believe the moon landing was faked think there is oxygen on the moon? There's no correlation here.
They dropped the 3.5mm headphone jack for no good reason. You can have both a 3.5mm jack and bluetooth/whatever. They replaced TouchID with a flawed FaceID. They switch from LCD to flawed OLED. They keep making phones with glass backs, prone to breaking. They release iOS without enough testing. They release iOS on older phones with a CPU/RAM not up to the task, with no way to revert back to the older iOS version to make it usable again.
Google can't be trusted and will violate your privacy. They only stop doing it when they get caught, like in this instance.
Apple is releasing overpriced defective hardware because they can't be bothered to spend their pile of cash on QA and they are actively removing features we need and replacing them with new and unreliable ones that we never asked for in the first place.
As far as I know, Microsoft are out of the smartphone race. Not that I'd trust them any more than the other two, given their history.
So what? We all go back to dumb flip phones and pretend the whole thing never happened?
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Like it or not, you have something in your house that was made, in whole or in part, by Foxconn.
Bob Porter: Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately.
Peter Gibbons: Well, I wouldn't exactly say I've been missing it, Bob.
Bob Slydell: You see, what we're trying to do is get a feeling for how people spend their time at work so if you would, would you walk us through a typical day, for you?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Bob Slydell: Great.
Peter Gibbons: Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh - after that I sorta space out for an hour.
Bob Porter: Da-uh? Space out?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
Peter Gibbons: You see, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't even care.
Bob Porter: Don't- don't care?
Peter Gibbons: It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation? And here's another thing, I have eight different bosses right now.
Bob Porter: Eight?
Peter Gibbons: Eight, Bob. So that means when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.
You think 11 hours of work every day for three months is not going to kill anyone?
Me too. I'm a bit sad to see it took four first-level posts to get to it.
They were caught because someone found how they are doing it. If they continue doing it in the same way, we now know how to detect that.
So yes we do know if they stop or not, in the way they're doing it now.
And I'll grant you that the C64 had a much better sound chip, the 6581 is one of the most legendary sound chip ever made.
The door is in the back of the house, you can't know there's no door unless you enter the property.
I meant they're going to stop doing the thing they were caught doing in this particular manner. Of course they're going to continue doing all the other shit we don't know about yet.
Well there's privacy and there's privacy. If all they can get is the location of my phone, I don't care. It's information any idiot stalker could get with a pen and a notebook.
When most people say "Security by obscurity" they mean "there's no door in the fucking doorway", not "there's a lock that can be picked on the door in the fucking doorway".
Does the Core 2 Duo series have any of this bullshit?
Fuck your lame C64. I want my 512 KiB CoCo3 back, with OS/9.
Jokes aside, what's the lowest we can go without all the spying bullshit? Is the Motorola 68060 safe?
My house lacking a fucking door worked fine until some jackass thief noticed the lack of door.
Just in case he overshoots and lands on the moon.
Is there different categories of awards?
This would surely win "Most expensive Darwin Award".
It sure will be. But shouldn't your post title be "Hughes success"?
Well, it's a big-ass rocket that will probably ends with an explosion...
Somebody should call mythbusters to do a special episode on this guy.
I wouldn't say it's going to be good, but at least it's going to be better than watching a self-taught brain surgeon working on himself.
WTF.
The math used by engineers IS science.
According to the article, this will be his second rocket launch. He survived his first failure and was stuck in bed for three days.
I don't see the logic in your theory.
Do you think that people who believe the moon landing was faked think there is oxygen on the moon? There's no correlation here.
They dropped the 3.5mm headphone jack for no good reason. You can have both a 3.5mm jack and bluetooth/whatever.
They replaced TouchID with a flawed FaceID.
They switch from LCD to flawed OLED.
They keep making phones with glass backs, prone to breaking.
They release iOS without enough testing.
They release iOS on older phones with a CPU/RAM not up to the task, with no way to revert back to the older iOS version to make it usable again.
Do I really need to go on?
2017-11-21 : Google releases new mapping service: ColonMaps.
Google can't be trusted and will violate your privacy. They only stop doing it when they get caught, like in this instance.
Apple is releasing overpriced defective hardware because they can't be bothered to spend their pile of cash on QA and they are actively removing features we need and replacing them with new and unreliable ones that we never asked for in the first place.
As far as I know, Microsoft are out of the smartphone race. Not that I'd trust them any more than the other two, given their history.
So what? We all go back to dumb flip phones and pretend the whole thing never happened?
You can't say that without linking to the source of this supposedly funny reference.