would your friend stop if they were illegal tomorrow? I bet not.
I tried quitting no less than 5 times, across several years before I was finally successful about 5 years ago. Absolute *bitch* to kick. Addiction is defined as: Continued use in the face of adverse consequences. If your friend is so much an addict as to wish they were illegal then the act of making them illegal likely won't be what gets him to finally quit. I do hope he manages to win one of these days though... it's a hell of a struggle to do.
Tell your friend to ask his physician about a prescription for Welbutrin. It kills the urge.
Your friend should also ignore his physician's advice to avoid nicotine gum while on Welbutrin. Because, hey, there are times when you are trying to quit, and some bitch of a situation comes up. Just one cig might make you feel better... NO. Break off 1/4 or 1/2 of a square of that nicotine gum to get you past the crisis.
Soon enough, when a crisis hits, your friend won't feel an urge to reach for a tobacco cigarette. Then your friend will have beaten if half-way.
Quitting tobacco is for life. The urges will eventually fade with the years, but do not be fooled by the, "Oh, just one puff" after 10 years off. The hooks will sink right back into your flesh, and you'll be smoking again.
In any case, tobacco cigarettes stink; they make you cough; you have to go way outside to smoke; your clothes stink when you come back; and so on. Why any of us ever started is kind of a mystery, at least once you're on the other side of this bitch of an addiction. It's harder than alcohol, and heroin is probably the only one more difficult to kick.
Then you should have redesigned the network such that the printers were not directly accessible to users, and they had to funnel data through a central print server which *does* log what was printed and by whom. Aside from the reason given (likely a severe violation of the company code of conduct), you get other benefits too like keeping (usually horrendously insecure) printers away from the user network, being able to tell who's printing copies of company data that might have leaked out, and keeping track of how much is being printed.
Please explain how he could have implemented such a system after the fact.
And moving forward... why? It sounds like a lot of effort and company money to waste just because the boss is a prude. . . It is a fire-able offense, but was likely one guy costing the company $10 a month in consumables. There are innumerable, more severely business-damaging offenses to be on the lookout for.
As I just posted below - before seeing your comment - those idiots need to hit the accelerator when the trailer starts swerving! Any other maneuver is bound to lead to a bad day.
Speeding up does work.
A second technique that works is to put the car in neutral, effectively decoupling the travel-direction forces transmitted through the hitch. With no more tugging it along, the trailer will settle down (this stops any more energy from being put into the trailer's motion, letting roll-resistance quench out the speed and oscillations). I have done this. Just decouple and coast.
You are correct that hitting the brakes is the absolute worst thing that the driver can do.
While living in Chicago, my RCN cable connection would occasionally cut-off dead. I'd call RCN, and the next day a tech would show up to reconnect my cable service at the building inlet cluster.
I was twice told that Comcast/TWC technicians had been instructed to disconnect a couple of their competitors' customers whenever they went to an apartment or condo for an install.
Also, in Santa Monica, CA, when Verizon installed phone service, they cut and removed the existing telephone from-the-pole cabling (likely to have been originally installed at taxpayer expense). Verizon had a money-back guarantee if you were not satisfied with their service. Activating that would have left you with no telephone wiring at all. I am not making this up. I asked the tech why he was cutting and discarding the length of cable that had been pre-existing. He shrugged, and said, "standard procedure."
The same physical principal applies to two-wheeled trailers pulled by cars with a hitch.
Have you ever seen someone driving down an interstate, two-wheeled U-Haul or similar trailer in tow behind their Honda Civic? I sure have. I back off, and watch while the driver tries various maneuvers. The trailer will start to swing side-to-side. Then it will start skipping from side-to-side. Then I get bored and pass... two lanes over. Never once has one of them simply decelerated and pulled over to the shoulder.
I still do not understand. How are they not journalists?
Because the show is entertainment. Without the jokes, no one would watch.
Also, John says what every rational person is thinking about current news, which is cathartic. It's nice to know that you are not the only person who saw an absurdity that had occurred and been reported-on in the prior week.
They use the same size bearings as a skateboard. Skateboard bearings fail pretty frequently. Pop out the bearing rings and give them to kids at your local skatepark.
There are several different grades of skate-bearing, specifically a #608-sized bearing. There are several rating systems, usually based on smoothness of the balls and races. ABEC-9 is the highest-grade. Then you get into materials. If you want something that will last longer than stainless steel (titanium, ceramic), then you can get into some seriously high prices. Some are $15 retail for one (Yes, really, and skates need 16.) Hard-core stunts involve hard-impact landings – repeatedly – for hours.
Odds are that the fidget-spinners employ the lowest grade, ABEC-1 or even rejects, and wouldn't last a day in a skateboard or Rollerblade.
Going by social media trends: Probably. Going by actual usage in classrooms: Not even close.
Yay! A physics-based response!
Freshman Physics. Bicycle Wheel. Extended Axle. Professor spins it up, and then hangs it from a string by one axle-end. Oohs and Aahs. Bonus if a strobe light was involved.
Or enough people have them that current sales figures can no longer be sustained. Fidget spinners are a stim toy, and stim toys serve a fairly practical purpose (although they may be supplanted by something else, such as fidget cubes). But you don't continually need more, and presumably, the vast majority of fidget spinners are not yet broken. So, logically, once a large enough portion of the population buys them, sales will level out.
Every time a new class of product arrives or is popularized, you see the same articles written by people who have apparently never seen adoption trends before.
They will not wear out. Rollerblades use the same type of bearing, and those suckers last a really long time, depending on how aggro you get with your stunts. If you just go to-and-fro, they will never wear out, despite bearing your body's weight. Thus, those in fidget-spinners have an effectively infinite lifetime.
I didn't even around to buying one. Well I guess I'll just have to keep annoying my co-workers with click-pens then...
You like click-pens? There is a cube-shaped 6x clicky toy out there... I probably shouldn't have told you that.
I've had an office-mate with the "click-pen" habit before, so am a bit sensitive. If you are one day seated near me in an open-office environment, and have one of those 6x clicky-cubes, I swear that I will stab you as many times as I can with a gallium knife (probably 5x until it melts but I will go for 6x).
The Pet Rock was a pointlessly pointless idea, which was the point of the fad.
Fidget spinners let you feel precession forces with your fingertips, which most people, being uneducated in physics, find endlessly fascinating.
Gotta admit, despite my PhD+ in physics, I find great joy in rolling Buckyballs across the floor (try it), and in watching airplanes taking off. It never gets old.
FTA:...according to the person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named... [discussed automated checkout systems]... which would help Amazon differentiate itself in the brick-and-mortar setting and reduce labor costs at Whole Foods stores. The employees remaining would help improve the shopping experience, the person said.
Drew Herdener, an Amazon spokesman, said in a statement the company has “no plans to use no-checkout technology to automate the jobs of cashiers at Whole Foods and no job reductions are planned.”[emphasis mine]
Read between the lines. Spokesman said only that "no no-checkout" technology would be used (RFID-based). Spokesman did not say that no automated checkout lanes would be added. Also note the first source's language: "...employees remaining would..."
So, more obnoxious auto checkouts, and of course a bunch of layoffs of the cashiers.
"has a good Privacy Policy, and doesn't have a history of breaches or allowing snooping." -- Runbox fits all of those. Norwegians have very strong laws regarding privacy, which should please you, and the company doesn't do any advertising or crawling through your emails for tracking or anything like that. It's not a free service nor is it the cheapest one available, but I've been their customer for several years and I would at least recommend one to take a look at their offerings.
The CIA is forbidden from operating in the US. So much for rules and laws.
Yep. They have dirt on you and everyone else, too. It doesn't even have to be dirt, but just data, which can be misconstrued to frame any person quite readily, for just about any kind of claimed legal transgression.
The innocent should be just as afraid as the guilty.
If this snooped-upon group of Americans includes members of the House and Senate, who make the laws controlling the CIA, then they have your government by the balls, and there is nothing anyone can (safely) do about it.
So what earns a person certification in being a genius?
150+ on Stanford-Binet? 145+ on Wechsler? A life where one generates a great amount of new science/art/architecture/writing? A ton of Patents?
IQ is just a raw measure of the potential of a mind. The "mental velocity", as they call it. What one does with it. . . That is what really differentiates the geniuses.
Never declare anyone a genius until they are at least 35 years old. The truth is that you just can't tell which ones will bloom – so provide opportunities to all of the ones who exhibit high IQs or similar at a young age. Observe their progress and proclivities, and you might just be part of the formative years of a genius. (or you can quench it, as frequently happens)
Even 250 seats is too much for her, let alone 313.
But what has UK politics got to do with slashdot, did I miss something?
Theresa May is (was?) one of the leading figures in attempts to censor the internet in the UK, and this is entirely relevant to Your Rights Online.
Yeah. It was really bizarre to hear May's response to the most recent terror incident, which was basically, "The internet is to blame. They are using the internet to communicate, and we need to spy on everyone in order to prevent attacks like this."... Some other bits were mixed in.
Hearing her make that connection was a real eye-popper – especially since it was an attempt to score political points while some of the victims were still in the ICU. Totally insensitive on top of being relevant to Your Rights Online.
Well I'd say it goes under the 'stuff that matters' part of the slogan. As a European one of the reasons I like political stories on Slashdot, especially political stories from outisde the US is that it's interesting to read american commentary on these matters.
Agreed.
People read/. for the Comments section, where a diverse array of people, with various perspectives, or specific knowledge, will chime in if they have something worth saying.
I'm not so sure about this. What I can see here is that people were promised wonders over wonders if Brexit happens,... basically that unicorns come and shit rainbows all across the sky.
You completely ignore history here.
It was a Flying Spaghetti Monster, not Rainbow Unicorn Poop, that created the universe, and that his return is what people bandy about when trying to sell something odious.
Nice little theory, but a far far simpler one is that May got greedy when the opinion polls made it look like she could vastly increase her majority by calling an election early. Boring slimy politics as usual.
The Tories already had a healthy majority in Parliament, and with May (A Tory) they could do pretty much what they wanted.
Oh, but May wanted an even bigger majority, and called for early elections. The Tories lost a bunch of seats, so now they don't have a majority at all. Compromises will have to be made, and it will be messy.
So... The bomb goes off in the hold and starts a fire? Jets don't usually recover from that... At least up top, you might confine the damage to a hole next to whoever has the laptop bomb (Egypt Air...)
No, no. You don't put a bomb in the cargo hold – too short-acting. You choose instead an incendiary that will have enough time to get things really burning. Even a box of sparklers would probably do the job.
If people wanted to take down aircraft, they would be able to take down aircraft. They don't want to take down aircraft - they want to terrify the easily frightened so that the easily frightened will overreact and do insane stupid shit like we have in the US.
I have actually wondered if this isn't some sort of weird terrorist counter-intel scheme. Come up with a dozen hair-brained but possibly conceivable attack methods that should require action by the US. Spread them individually through separate cell branches of the terrorist network to work on. See which ones are acted upon to prevent to determine where the leaks are and then they could concentrate on that cell.
You're actually pretty close. I used to work in the Defense Industry. Had a conversation with another DOD-funded person. Her job was to dream up new ideas for threats, go pitch them, and bring home funding to work on a counter-measure program for imagined threat. She was so proud of her job; I wanted to punch her in the face.
Slashdot Mirror
would your friend stop if they were illegal tomorrow?
I bet not.
I tried quitting no less than 5 times, across several years before I was finally successful about 5 years ago. Absolute *bitch* to kick.
Addiction is defined as: Continued use in the face of adverse consequences. If your friend is so much an addict as to wish they were illegal then the act of making them illegal likely won't be what gets him to finally quit. I do hope he manages to win one of these days though... it's a hell of a struggle to do.
Tell your friend to ask his physician about a prescription for Welbutrin. It kills the urge.
Your friend should also ignore his physician's advice to avoid nicotine gum while on Welbutrin. Because, hey, there are times when you are trying to quit, and some bitch of a situation comes up. Just one cig might make you feel better... NO. Break off 1/4 or 1/2 of a square of that nicotine gum to get you past the crisis.
Soon enough, when a crisis hits, your friend won't feel an urge to reach for a tobacco cigarette. Then your friend will have beaten if half-way.
Quitting tobacco is for life. The urges will eventually fade with the years, but do not be fooled by the, "Oh, just one puff" after 10 years off. The hooks will sink right back into your flesh, and you'll be smoking again.
In any case, tobacco cigarettes stink; they make you cough; you have to go way outside to smoke; your clothes stink when you come back; and so on. Why any of us ever started is kind of a mystery, at least once you're on the other side of this bitch of an addiction. It's harder than alcohol, and heroin is probably the only one more difficult to kick.
Then you should have redesigned the network such that the printers were not directly accessible to users, and they had to funnel data through a central print server which *does* log what was printed and by whom. Aside from the reason given (likely a severe violation of the company code of conduct), you get other benefits too like keeping (usually horrendously insecure) printers away from the user network, being able to tell who's printing copies of company data that might have leaked out, and keeping track of how much is being printed.
Please explain how he could have implemented such a system after the fact.
And moving forward... why? It sounds like a lot of effort and company money to waste just because the boss is a prude. . . It is a fire-able offense, but was likely one guy costing the company $10 a month in consumables. There are innumerable, more severely business-damaging offenses to be on the lookout for.
As I just posted below - before seeing your comment - those idiots need to hit the accelerator when the trailer starts swerving! Any other maneuver is bound to lead to a bad day.
Speeding up does work.
A second technique that works is to put the car in neutral, effectively decoupling the travel-direction forces transmitted through the hitch. With no more tugging it along, the trailer will settle down (this stops any more energy from being put into the trailer's motion, letting roll-resistance quench out the speed and oscillations). I have done this. Just decouple and coast.
You are correct that hitting the brakes is the absolute worst thing that the driver can do.
While living in Chicago, my RCN cable connection would occasionally cut-off dead. I'd call RCN, and the next day a tech would show up to reconnect my cable service at the building inlet cluster.
I was twice told that Comcast/TWC technicians had been instructed to disconnect a couple of their competitors' customers whenever they went to an apartment or condo for an install.
Also, in Santa Monica, CA, when Verizon installed phone service, they cut and removed the existing telephone from-the-pole cabling (likely to have been originally installed at taxpayer expense). Verizon had a money-back guarantee if you were not satisfied with their service. Activating that would have left you with no telephone wiring at all. I am not making this up. I asked the tech why he was cutting and discarding the length of cable that had been pre-existing. He shrugged, and said, "standard procedure."
The same physical principal applies to two-wheeled trailers pulled by cars with a hitch.
Have you ever seen someone driving down an interstate, two-wheeled U-Haul or similar trailer in tow behind their Honda Civic? I sure have. I back off, and watch while the driver tries various maneuvers. The trailer will start to swing side-to-side. Then it will start skipping from side-to-side. Then I get bored and pass... two lanes over. Never once has one of them simply decelerated and pulled over to the shoulder.
I still do not understand. How are they not journalists?
Because the show is entertainment. Without the jokes, no one would watch.
Also, John says what every rational person is thinking about current news, which is cathartic. It's nice to know that you are not the only person who saw an absurdity that had occurred and been reported-on in the prior week.
That is why his show is on Sunday.
That, and I forgot to mention that rollerblade bearings are sealed.
They use the same size bearings as a skateboard. Skateboard bearings fail pretty frequently. Pop out the bearing rings and give them to kids at your local skatepark.
There are several different grades of skate-bearing, specifically a #608-sized bearing. There are several rating systems, usually based on smoothness of the balls and races. ABEC-9 is the highest-grade. Then you get into materials. If you want something that will last longer than stainless steel (titanium, ceramic), then you can get into some seriously high prices. Some are $15 retail for one (Yes, really, and skates need 16.) Hard-core stunts involve hard-impact landings – repeatedly – for hours.
Odds are that the fidget-spinners employ the lowest grade, ABEC-1 or even rejects, and wouldn't last a day in a skateboard or Rollerblade.
Going by social media trends: Probably.
Going by actual usage in classrooms: Not even close.
Yay! A physics-based response!
Freshman Physics. Bicycle Wheel. Extended Axle. Professor spins it up, and then hangs it from a string by one axle-end. Oohs and Aahs. Bonus if a strobe light was involved.
Precession.
Or enough people have them that current sales figures can no longer be sustained. Fidget spinners are a stim toy, and stim toys serve a fairly practical purpose (although they may be supplanted by something else, such as fidget cubes). But you don't continually need more, and presumably, the vast majority of fidget spinners are not yet broken. So, logically, once a large enough portion of the population buys them, sales will level out.
Every time a new class of product arrives or is popularized, you see the same articles written by people who have apparently never seen adoption trends before.
They will not wear out. Rollerblades use the same type of bearing, and those suckers last a really long time, depending on how aggro you get with your stunts. If you just go to-and-fro, they will never wear out, despite bearing your body's weight. Thus, those in fidget-spinners have an effectively infinite lifetime.
I didn't even around to buying one. Well I guess I'll just have to keep annoying my co-workers with click-pens then...
You like click-pens? There is a cube-shaped 6x clicky toy out there... I probably shouldn't have told you that.
I've had an office-mate with the "click-pen" habit before, so am a bit sensitive. If you are one day seated near me in an open-office environment, and have one of those 6x clicky-cubes, I swear that I will stab you as many times as I can with a gallium knife (probably 5x until it melts but I will go for 6x).
Queeg was the original ball bearing fidgeter and it's mutiny if you think otherwise.
Nope. A wheel from my Rollerblades, with ball-bearing inserted, and played with in the exact same way, is much closer to the original fidget spinner.
That was 1990.
You can still buy Pet Rocks.
The Pet Rock was a pointlessly pointless idea, which was the point of the fad.
Fidget spinners let you feel precession forces with your fingertips, which most people, being uneducated in physics, find endlessly fascinating.
Gotta admit, despite my PhD+ in physics, I find great joy in rolling Buckyballs across the floor (try it), and in watching airplanes taking off. It never gets old.
FTA: ...according to the person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named ... [discussed automated checkout systems] ... which would help Amazon differentiate itself in the brick-and-mortar setting and reduce labor costs at Whole Foods stores. The employees remaining would help improve the shopping experience, the person said.
Drew Herdener, an Amazon spokesman, said in a statement the company has “no plans to use no-checkout technology to automate the jobs of cashiers at Whole Foods and no job reductions are planned.” [emphasis mine]
Read between the lines. Spokesman said only that "no no-checkout" technology would be used (RFID-based). Spokesman did not say that no automated checkout lanes would be added. Also note the first source's language: "...employees remaining would..."
So, more obnoxious auto checkouts, and of course a bunch of layoffs of the cashiers.
It was, "Alexa, buy olives from Whole Foods."
Alexa, "Buying all of the Whole Foods."
"has a good Privacy Policy, and doesn't have a history of breaches or allowing snooping." -- Runbox fits all of those. Norwegians have very strong laws regarding privacy, which should please you, and the company doesn't do any advertising or crawling through your emails for tracking or anything like that. It's not a free service nor is it the cheapest one available, but I've been their customer for several years and I would at least recommend one to take a look at their offerings.
How about anon.penet.fi?
The CIA is forbidden from operating in the US. So much for rules and laws.
Yep. They have dirt on you and everyone else, too. It doesn't even have to be dirt, but just data, which can be misconstrued to frame any person quite readily, for just about any kind of claimed legal transgression.
The innocent should be just as afraid as the guilty.
If this snooped-upon group of Americans includes members of the House and Senate, who make the laws controlling the CIA, then they have your government by the balls, and there is nothing anyone can (safely) do about it.
Ignorance is freedom.
So what earns a person certification in being a genius?
150+ on Stanford-Binet? 145+ on Wechsler? A life where one generates a great amount of new science/art/architecture/writing? A ton of Patents?
IQ is just a raw measure of the potential of a mind. The "mental velocity", as they call it. What one does with it. . . That is what really differentiates the geniuses.
Never declare anyone a genius until they are at least 35 years old. The truth is that you just can't tell which ones will bloom – so provide opportunities to all of the ones who exhibit high IQs or similar at a young age. Observe their progress and proclivities, and you might just be part of the formative years of a genius. (or you can quench it, as frequently happens)
Even 250 seats is too much for her, let alone 313.
But what has UK politics got to do with slashdot, did I miss something?
Theresa May is (was?) one of the leading figures in attempts to censor the internet in the UK, and this is entirely relevant to Your Rights Online.
Yeah. It was really bizarre to hear May's response to the most recent terror incident, which was basically, "The internet is to blame. They are using the internet to communicate, and we need to spy on everyone in order to prevent attacks like this." ... Some other bits were mixed in.
Hearing her make that connection was a real eye-popper – especially since it was an attempt to score political points while some of the victims were still in the ICU. Totally insensitive on top of being relevant to Your Rights Online.
Well I'd say it goes under the 'stuff that matters' part of the slogan. As a European one of the reasons I like political stories on Slashdot, especially political stories from outisde the US is that it's interesting to read american commentary on these matters.
Agreed.
People read /. for the Comments section, where a diverse array of people, with various perspectives, or specific knowledge, will chime in if they have something worth saying.
I'm not so sure about this. What I can see here is that people were promised wonders over wonders if Brexit happens, ... basically that unicorns come and shit rainbows all across the sky.
You completely ignore history here.
It was a Flying Spaghetti Monster, not Rainbow Unicorn Poop, that created the universe, and that his return is what people bandy about when trying to sell something odious.
R'Amen
Nice little theory, but a far far simpler one is that May got greedy when the opinion polls made it look like she could vastly increase her majority by calling an election early. Boring slimy politics as usual.
Yes. Bang-on. Political greed.
The Tories already had a healthy majority in Parliament, and with May (A Tory) they could do pretty much what they wanted.
Oh, but May wanted an even bigger majority, and called for early elections. The Tories lost a bunch of seats, so now they don't have a majority at all. Compromises will have to be made, and it will be messy.
Oops!
So... The bomb goes off in the hold and starts a fire? Jets don't usually recover from that... At least up top, you might confine the damage to a hole next to whoever has the laptop bomb (Egypt Air...)
No, no. You don't put a bomb in the cargo hold – too short-acting. You choose instead an incendiary that will have enough time to get things really burning. Even a box of sparklers would probably do the job.
If people wanted to take down aircraft, they would be able to take down aircraft. They don't want to take down aircraft - they want to terrify the easily frightened so that the easily frightened will overreact and do insane stupid shit like we have in the US.
I have actually wondered if this isn't some sort of weird terrorist counter-intel scheme. Come up with a dozen hair-brained but possibly conceivable attack methods that should require action by the US. Spread them individually through separate cell branches of the terrorist network to work on. See which ones are acted upon to prevent to determine where the leaks are and then they could concentrate on that cell.
You're actually pretty close. I used to work in the Defense Industry. Had a conversation with another DOD-funded person. Her job was to dream up new ideas for threats, go pitch them, and bring home funding to work on a counter-measure program for imagined threat. She was so proud of her job; I wanted to punch her in the face.