Just take the battery out. Physically remove it. Or if you want to be 110% sure don't carry a phone at all, it's not like it's law that you have to carry one.
Anything I care to keep private, I don't put on the internet. That's about it.
The facebook spy system encourages others to post everything they know about you. People do that without any understanding of what they are giving away for themselves or for people they know.
This is bad from the simple example of so called friends making sure criminals know when I'm on holiday as well as my home address, to corrupt government spooks having access to everything that anyone ever wrote about me as well as a stream of up to date pictures.
Everything Snowden released has shown that the NSA doesn't have magical ways to break modern encryption. They rely on strong-arming various organizations and hacking vulnerable systems.
I already have to argue in person over what reality is every day. Doing it on a website in my free time would be like playing a game to make me a CPA.
And that's the core of the problem. The influence any given editor has is directly related to how much time they spend editing and has nothing to do with how much they know, how much research they do, or how correct they are. Subject matter experts are treated with less respect that an obsessive editor with loads of free time.
Anyone can edit. You don't even need to create an account. It's getting your edits to stay on the page that's the hard part.
Admins are appointed by other admins and are largely people who have WAY too much free time and are on a power trip. They love pissing off editors with stupid and contradictory rules, and they totally love deleting pages that hard working editors put serious work into.
When the interest was a smaller and people were not really into SEO AltaVista worked very nicely. Google works because it's really rather good at working around those types who try to rig the results with SEO tactics.
I wouldn't call the NSA's repository "free and easily accessible"... unless you know their root password? Sharesies?
Apparently the NSA store all their documents on a windows server. If you have an admin account on their domain it's all free and easily accessible. I doubt a few thousand recordings of "Une bagette et un litre de lait s'il vous plait" will be of much interest to you though.
Wikipedia at least gives you information in a mostly understandable format.
Many established editors are hostile to anything that they see as eroding their fifedom. Even simple grammar corrections can get reverted with hostile or passive-aggressive comments. Many or most administrators have a god complex and love to use the tangled and contradictory rules to bash down anything they don't like the look of.
Many people have tried to contribute to Wikipedia thinking it's a great idea, almost all got beaten down until they saw nothing but pain in it and quit.
Intel always made better SSDs. My OCZ SSD died, I replaced it with an Intel one that just keeps on going. But then Acer make cheap rubbish that falls apart easily and they stay profitable. There is normally more money in the low end than the top end.
Far lower, the Galaxy S4 has an impressive 1080 x 1920 pixels on it's pocket sized screen.
But then Acer build things as cheaply as they possably can. The S4 will likely keep working years longer than anything from Acer and give you far fewer problems.
Everything, and I mean everything, I ever brought from acer stopped working within 3 years. They make the lowest cost laptops because they use the cheapest parts. Saving $50 by buying acer is false economy.
Lol, early birds vs. night owls. It's like gender wars for sleep schedules.
I wasn't complaining about early birds. I don't even care if someone is so good at what they do that they get in at lunchtime and leave 4 hours later and still get a day's work done.
I was complaining about the kind of people who get in at 9:30am and leave exactly at 4:59pm, and in between they distract the people who do the work and don't put in more than 30 minutes of actual work themselves. I've seen lots of people who do that.
I'm not sure what you are going about with the digging to China rant. Anyone sensible will find pragmatic solutions to problems. If you are saying there is way too much reinvention in IT then I do agree.
Maybe it's different at your company? I mean it's not like we have exactly the same co-workers.
The kind of people I was complaining about don't get in early either, they get in about 9:30am and leave at exactly 4:59pm. They complain that they don't want to do things and they blame other people and management for everything. Anything they do is terrible misconceived job-security nonsense and makes everyone else's life harder when it inevitably falls apart and someone else has to fix it.
Sure there are good people that leave before 5pm, I'm not knocking them. Work whatever hours work for you.
I worked for a manager once that didn't believe that anyone who practiced WFH actually worked when they were at home. His position was, you must be visibly in your cube to be considered to be working.
Sounds like he was assuming other people would behave like him.
When you can't crank out 100+ hours/week at max capacity, you're too old for the job. Step aside and let us younger and more capable guys show you how it's done.
If you have to crank out 100+ hours a week on a regular basis you can't do your job.
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Just take the battery out. Physically remove it. Or if you want to be 110% sure don't carry a phone at all, it's not like it's law that you have to carry one.
Give these guys a try: Your own dam server that you control.
Anything I care to keep private, I don't put on the internet. That's about it.
The facebook spy system encourages others to post everything they know about you. People do that without any understanding of what they are giving away for themselves or for people they know.
This is bad from the simple example of so called friends making sure criminals know when I'm on holiday as well as my home address, to corrupt government spooks having access to everything that anyone ever wrote about me as well as a stream of up to date pictures.
Everything Snowden released has shown that the NSA doesn't have magical ways to break modern encryption. They rely on strong-arming various organizations and hacking vulnerable systems.
The inner party can turn off the telespeakers for a short time. It only makes the secret police watch them even closer.
I already have to argue in person over what reality is every day. Doing it on a website in my free time would be like playing a game to make me a CPA.
And that's the core of the problem. The influence any given editor has is directly related to how much time they spend editing and has nothing to do with how much they know, how much research they do, or how correct they are. Subject matter experts are treated with less respect that an obsessive editor with loads of free time.
It doesn't really work like that in practice, at least not on most pages. I wish it did though.
Anyone can edit. You don't even need to create an account. It's getting your edits to stay on the page that's the hard part.
Admins are appointed by other admins and are largely people who have WAY too much free time and are on a power trip. They love pissing off editors with stupid and contradictory rules, and they totally love deleting pages that hard working editors put serious work into.
When the interest was a smaller and people were not really into SEO AltaVista worked very nicely. Google works because it's really rather good at working around those types who try to rig the results with SEO tactics.
"Let's check Wikipedia!" is often followed by "That's what Wikipedia says, anyone can edit Wikipedia!"
I wouldn't call the NSA's repository "free and easily accessible"... unless you know their root password? Sharesies?
Apparently the NSA store all their documents on a windows server. If you have an admin account on their domain it's all free and easily accessible. I doubt a few thousand recordings of "Une bagette et un litre de lait s'il vous plait" will be of much interest to you though.
Wikipedia at least gives you information in a mostly understandable format.
Many established editors are hostile to anything that they see as eroding their fifedom. Even simple grammar corrections can get reverted with hostile or passive-aggressive comments. Many or most administrators have a god complex and love to use the tangled and contradictory rules to bash down anything they don't like the look of.
Many people have tried to contribute to Wikipedia thinking it's a great idea, almost all got beaten down until they saw nothing but pain in it and quit.
HP has wonderful workstations, but they are seriously expensive.
Intel always made better SSDs. My OCZ SSD died, I replaced it with an Intel one that just keeps on going. But then Acer make cheap rubbish that falls apart easily and they stay profitable. There is normally more money in the low end than the top end.
Tutorial software by Microsoft in a tight timeline. What could possibly go wrong?
Far lower, the Galaxy S4 has an impressive 1080 x 1920 pixels on it's pocket sized screen.
But then Acer build things as cheaply as they possably can. The S4 will likely keep working years longer than anything from Acer and give you far fewer problems.
Everything, and I mean everything, I ever brought from acer stopped working within 3 years. They make the lowest cost laptops because they use the cheapest parts. Saving $50 by buying acer is false economy.
That's the sickest advice I've ever seen.
And no I'm not a baby boomer and I hate phones. Someone I used to work with summed it up by calling them an unmaskable interrupt.
Lol, early birds vs. night owls. It's like gender wars for sleep schedules.
I wasn't complaining about early birds. I don't even care if someone is so good at what they do that they get in at lunchtime and leave 4 hours later and still get a day's work done.
I was complaining about the kind of people who get in at 9:30am and leave exactly at 4:59pm, and in between they distract the people who do the work and don't put in more than 30 minutes of actual work themselves. I've seen lots of people who do that.
I'm not sure what you are going about with the digging to China rant. Anyone sensible will find pragmatic solutions to problems. If you are saying there is way too much reinvention in IT then I do agree.
Maybe it's different at your company? I mean it's not like we have exactly the same co-workers.
The kind of people I was complaining about don't get in early either, they get in about 9:30am and leave at exactly 4:59pm. They complain that they don't want to do things and they blame other people and management for everything. Anything they do is terrible misconceived job-security nonsense and makes everyone else's life harder when it inevitably falls apart and someone else has to fix it.
Sure there are good people that leave before 5pm, I'm not knocking them. Work whatever hours work for you.
Those developers in Bangalore must have it made!
The only thing I've seen them make is a mess.
I worked for a manager once that didn't believe that anyone who practiced WFH actually worked when they were at home. His position was, you must be visibly in your cube to be considered to be working.
Sounds like he was assuming other people would behave like him.
Unfortunately, the main question seems to imply everyone staying late, which negates the positive side of what you are describing.
Not totally. The slackers that cause 80% of the noise and distraction all go home at exactly 4:59 pm.
When you can't crank out 100+ hours/week at max capacity, you're too old for the job. Step aside and let us younger and more capable guys show you how it's done.
If you have to crank out 100+ hours a week on a regular basis you can't do your job.
Noise canceling headphones work as long as you don't mind having to listen to music all your working day.
Sadly they don't stop people from talking to you.