He immediately went back to the computer room and attempted to login. The implication was that he was about to 'do some harm.'
Or archive off his porn stash; personal emails, resume; etc. I took a couple of weeks after I'd been offered a better job to put my affairs in order before I walked out. I spent most of my time finishing jobs that could be finished, putting files in order and generally clearing my desk (my boss might have become suspicious at how neat things became if he ever paid any notice to my work). I also archived my email, some of which came in handy when I made my claim for overdue salary at the labour tribunal. But I did nothing malicious, though I daydreamed about it of course; the boss wouldn't have suffered, just the customers and other staff. He always got his benefits first, before paying the rent even. But I did get to see him squirm in court.
I disagree. Bosses are clueless that they are assholes and need to be told. Try that first..:)
Doesn't work. No one believes they are an asshole. If you want to make an impact before you leave, you need to tell others, preferably his peers or bosses. But the asshole in question then will try to smear you in defence. Best of all is to get some documtented proof of unsavoury, preferably illegal, practices and distribute that to the relevant authorities. But you may still have to overcome the "disgruntled employee" label.
I've read a few analyses of abusive bosses, describng them as clinical psychpaths. You don't have to be a serial killer to be a psychopath -- a total lack of empathy, narcissism amd a capacity to rationalise every failing as the result of a conspiracy against him are good markers. Once you realise what you're dealing with you know that sweet reason has no chance of success. Many organisations actually reward psychopathic behaviour, not least the military.
When I lived in Australia, my host had an aircon constantly blasting...When I suggested he insulate the house to save money and energy, he said "No no, it is much to hot in summer here!" I tried to explain that insulating a house is like a thermos. It can keep your chocolate warm in winter, or your chilled drinks cold in summer. He remained sceptical.
Where was that? In Victoria certainly almost all houses are insulated. It gets pretty hot in summer too; over 40C, and close to freezing (though never snow in the cities) in winter. Don't generalise from one idiot.
The Enterprise would be a very insular environment and probaby wouldn't be representative of life in the federation
Which is why I was talking about what we see on shore leave and other planetary visits; commercial shipping, etc.
Once you have matter/antimatter power, fusion, transporters, replicators (these must be dirt cheap if Picard uses them to make cups of tea rather than boiling a cup in the old-fashioend way), there is no reason for drudgery.
Reminds me of the Star Trek Next Generation episode where they wake up people who were frozen. The doc cured them, and one guy wanted to check on his stocks. They thought he was nuts, because why would you need stocks when you could just ask the replicator for anything you wanted?
Which makes nonsense of the entire social structure presented. Why are so many people working at mundane jobs in the ST future? Why take shit from a boss when you don't need the money? I can believe some would be drawn to adventurous or service-oriented jobs, like Starfleet, but all the cooks and bottlewashers you see on every planetary visit? One can retcon excuses why the society seems basically unchanged in having a large number of proles, but it's obviously somethng that was never thought through.
I didn't even know that Niven had turned it into a full fledged book.
"World Out of Time" is quite entertaining, not least because it doesn't carry the baggage of Knowm Space. Notably, there is no FTL or aliens (though there is teleportation), but there is some fairly breath-taking astro-engineering in the second part set a million (?) or so years after the first part ("Rammer"). Note that this may be the same history as the "Smoke Ring" novels.
So you are saying that an Apple/Sun merger is the same thing as Apple using Sparc chips? Does this mean Apple ended up mergin with IBM and are now merging with Intel? There may be a lot of dupes but you seem to have jumped the gun on this one:p.
I'm not the GP poster, but he's right, it is a dupe. Read TFAs linked, different choice of headline, same story, both drawing on the same event of Jan 12.
My son is two and a half and he's very much into animated movies. Nemo, Shrek (1+2), Toy Story (1+2), Winnie the Pooh (tons)
Just an aside: my daughter is a bit older, and I picked up a copy of "The House at Pooh Corner" for her. It (the original book by AA Milne) was so much better than the simpering Disneyfied versions you see in hundreds of illustrated books. Easy to read, yet full of subtle humour and wordplay. This I've found is a general rule: Disney cartoons are fine, but avoid their literature; go to the source.
Besides, the dialup doesn't really make you more secure. It's slower
Exactly -- no doubt half the comments here are variations on this, but I'll just add mine: the ONLY difference is speed. As most viruses and other attacks require very small amounts of data to take root (!), you'll get owned just as surely. But you can limit the time you are exposed just as easily with broadband as you can with a modem -- in fact you can spend LESS time connected if you want, just go to your settings (depends on OS, etc) and make it to disconnect after a few minutes of no traffic, and to reconnect on demand. The reconnect will be almost instantaneous, much faster than a dial-up modem, which has to dial and negotiate a connection -- a DSL router is itself already connected once it's powered on. I've got mine set to disconnect after 8 minutes of inactivity. Reduces my exposure form 24 to 2 or 3 hours a day. Also of course, a dial-up modem fully occupies a phone line, DSL piggybacks on it and allows normal use.
The problem with the printer manufacturers is that they all do it. So there's no escaping
There are third-part cartridges for just about any kind of printer. You can get refill kits for inkjets, even continuous flow tanks. Laser printer toner carts can be refilled. Some printer manufacturers try to make hardware locks/chips, etc; most can be circumvented, and there are plenty of alternatives. If you don't need colour, get a used HP laser -- I have a 1992 HP4. 600dpi, 8ppm. 300,000 pages on the clock. Refill/clone carts are cheap.
In TFA, the DOJ search request is listed after a half-dozen other negative factors. It's blatant pandering to the Slashdot obsessions to focus only on that as the cause of the price decline.
You can still find Minidiscs today, 14 years after it was introduced. You won't find cartridges for your printer 14 years from now
Of course you can still buy minidisks, you think Sony doesn't profit from them? They sold well in Asia, if not the US.
As for printers, the printer manufacturers profit obscenely from selling cartridges, to the point of selling the printers below cost to get them into your home. They'll happily be making them as long as anyone is buying, though it would be a rare inkjet to last more than a year or two. Actually, I have a HP laser vintage 1992, and just sold a Panasonic impact printer (1989). You can buy cartridges (toner and ribbon respectively) for both machines almost anywhere.
Another "Luke PiWalker" dupe -- A very successful troll (look at his link, he glories in it) -- who accumulates karma by copying high-rating comments, and recently has started submitting dupe stories, which the "editors" cheerfully post. See also:
Google Jumps into Radio Advertising On January 18th, 2006 with 45 comments Luke PiWalker writes...
duping:
Google To Buy Radio Advertising Firm On January 18th, 2006 with 144 comments
-- quite an achievement as the original was still on the front page.
This guy is an asshole, but he couldn't get away with it if the editors were half-awake.
This TRON certainly did try to keep his family name hidden and he certainly did not commit horrible crimes(ie like Marc Dutroux).
No one says he did commit horrible crimes, which is why I fail to see hte grat stigm of sharing his name.
I think the problem is caused by some anal wikipedians that are turned-on by following the rules/principles but lack the empathy (let me translate for/.: ability to sense other peoples emotions)to understand why in this case they are still free to use his familyname but better shouold not do so. This is not bad luck, this is just pure cruelty.
Yes; I agree that sensitivity to the family's feelings would be desirable. However, the law shouldn't and can't be used to force people to be nice.
There's already a perfectly good phrase from cricket:
hat trick, a series of three victories in sports
It comes from the English game of cricket and refers to a bowler who takes three wickets with three successive balls. It seems to have been the custom in the nineteenth century for such a paragon of the art to be awarded a new hat by his club as a mark of his success. However, it is sometimes also said that the phrase alludes to a distinctly more plebeian reward in which the bowler was permitted to take his hat around the crowd for a collection. Hat trick was first recorded in print in the 1870s, but has since been widened to apply to any sport in which the person competing carries off some feat three times in quick succession, such as scoring three goals in one game of soccer.
For the pain their son brought on them in his life and death; for having a sleazy fictionalising of his life to torment them; but that gives them no right to harass others.
Everytime it happens, I post a link like this where I can find the other articles in less than 10 seconds, and I don't even work as an "editor" for slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
Or archive off his porn stash; personal emails, resume; etc. I took a couple of weeks after I'd been offered a better job to put my affairs in order before I walked out. I spent most of my time finishing jobs that could be finished, putting files in order and generally clearing my desk (my boss might have become suspicious at how neat things became if he ever paid any notice to my work). I also archived my email, some of which came in handy when I made my claim for overdue salary at the labour tribunal. But I did nothing malicious, though I daydreamed about it of course; the boss wouldn't have suffered, just the customers and other staff. He always got his benefits first, before paying the rent even. But I did get to see him squirm in court.
Doesn't work. No one believes they are an asshole. If you want to make an impact before you leave, you need to tell others, preferably his peers or bosses. But the asshole in question then will try to smear you in defence. Best of all is to get some documtented proof of unsavoury, preferably illegal, practices and distribute that to the relevant authorities. But you may still have to overcome the "disgruntled employee" label.
I've read a few analyses of abusive bosses, describng them as clinical psychpaths. You don't have to be a serial killer to be a psychopath -- a total lack of empathy, narcissism amd a capacity to rationalise every failing as the result of a conspiracy against him are good markers. Once you realise what you're dealing with you know that sweet reason has no chance of success. Many organisations actually reward psychopathic behaviour, not least the military.
"Tragedy of the commons".
Costs to the environment and health due to emissions. But you know that and are just trolling.
Where was that? In Victoria certainly almost all houses are insulated. It gets pretty hot in summer too; over 40C, and close to freezing (though never snow in the cities) in winter. Don't generalise from one idiot.
Victorian govt: insulation info.
Which is why I was talking about what we see on shore leave and other planetary visits; commercial shipping, etc.
Once you have matter/antimatter power, fusion, transporters, replicators (these must be dirt cheap if Picard uses them to make cups of tea rather than boiling a cup in the old-fashioend way), there is no reason for drudgery.
They probably won't remove his brain and replace it with resin.
Have you seen him lately? He's jumped the shark since he jumped the shark.
Which makes nonsense of the entire social structure presented. Why are so many people working at mundane jobs in the ST future? Why take shit from a boss when you don't need the money? I can believe some would be drawn to adventurous or service-oriented jobs, like Starfleet, but all the cooks and bottlewashers you see on every planetary visit? One can retcon excuses why the society seems basically unchanged in having a large number of proles, but it's obviously somethng that was never thought through.
"World Out of Time" is quite entertaining, not least because it doesn't carry the baggage of Knowm Space. Notably, there is no FTL or aliens (though there is teleportation), but there is some fairly breath-taking astro-engineering in the second part set a million (?) or so years after the first part ("Rammer"). Note that this may be the same history as the "Smoke Ring" novels.
AFTER they've read it. Editors are supposed to filter, so we don't have to. If we simply ignore mistakes, they'll only get worse.
Some of us use dupes as a "value added service"
Every story ever published is archived. You can page through old stories if you want to, just look at the "Older Stuff" box on the right.
I'm not the GP poster, but he's right, it is a dupe. Read TFAs linked, different choice of headline, same story, both drawing on the same event of Jan 12.
Just an aside: my daughter is a bit older, and I picked up a copy of "The House at Pooh Corner" for her. It (the original book by AA Milne) was so much better than the simpering Disneyfied versions you see in hundreds of illustrated books. Easy to read, yet full of subtle humour and wordplay. This I've found is a general rule: Disney cartoons are fine, but avoid their literature; go to the source.
Exactly -- no doubt half the comments here are variations on this, but I'll just add mine: the ONLY difference is speed. As most viruses and other attacks require very small amounts of data to take root (!), you'll get owned just as surely. But you can limit the time you are exposed just as easily with broadband as you can with a modem -- in fact you can spend LESS time connected if you want, just go to your settings (depends on OS, etc) and make it to disconnect after a few minutes of no traffic, and to reconnect on demand. The reconnect will be almost instantaneous, much faster than a dial-up modem, which has to dial and negotiate a connection -- a DSL router is itself already connected once it's powered on. I've got mine set to disconnect after 8 minutes of inactivity. Reduces my exposure form 24 to 2 or 3 hours a day. Also of course, a dial-up modem fully occupies a phone line, DSL piggybacks on it and allows normal use.
There are third-part cartridges for just about any kind of printer. You can get refill kits for inkjets, even continuous flow tanks. Laser printer toner carts can be refilled. Some printer manufacturers try to make hardware locks/chips, etc; most can be circumvented, and there are plenty of alternatives. If you don't need colour, get a used HP laser -- I have a 1992 HP4. 600dpi, 8ppm. 300,000 pages on the clock. Refill/clone carts are cheap.
In TFA, the DOJ search request is listed after a half-dozen other negative factors. It's blatant pandering to the Slashdot obsessions to focus only on that as the cause of the price decline.
Of course you can still buy minidisks, you think Sony doesn't profit from them? They sold well in Asia, if not the US.
As for printers, the printer manufacturers profit obscenely from selling cartridges, to the point of selling the printers below cost to get them into your home. They'll happily be making them as long as anyone is buying, though it would be a rare inkjet to last more than a year or two. Actually, I have a HP laser vintage 1992, and just sold a Panasonic impact printer (1989). You can buy cartridges (toner and ribbon respectively) for both machines almost anywhere.
Another "Luke PiWalker" dupe -- A very successful troll (look at his link, he glories in it) -- who accumulates karma by copying high-rating comments, and recently has started submitting dupe stories, which the "editors" cheerfully post. See also:
...
Google Jumps into Radio Advertising
On January 18th, 2006 with 45 comments
Luke PiWalker writes
duping:
Google To Buy Radio Advertising Firm
On January 18th, 2006 with 144 comments
-- quite an achievement as the original was still on the front page.
This guy is an asshole, but he couldn't get away with it if the editors were half-awake.
I suspect some trolls have done so by deliberately submitting dupes. Eg, the recent Google radio dupe was submitted by a self-proclaimed troll).
No one says he did commit horrible crimes, which is why I fail to see hte grat stigm of sharing his name. I think the problem is caused by some anal wikipedians that are turned-on by following the rules/principles but lack the empathy (let me translate for /.: ability to sense other peoples emotions)to understand why in this case they are still free to use his familyname but better shouold not do so. This is not bad luck, this is just pure cruelty.
Yes; I agree that sensitivity to the family's feelings would be desirable. However, the law shouldn't and can't be used to force people to be nice.
Like their jobs -- wait
"Unmentionable" names are what this is about.
libel, the right to privacy,..
For the dead?
let's just apply the American norms
FYI, I'm not American.
I can sympathize with the parents here.
For the pain their son brought on them in his life and death; for having a sleazy fictionalising of his life to torment them; but that gives them no right to harass others.
Even simpler: http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=50+millisecond s, by typing the words "50 milliseconds" in ot Slashdot's search.
Or try http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=radio for another.
You think "websiteoptimization.com" might be a commercial site?