While I allow users to reset their password, I leave the default password the DOB. It's hard enough to guess, everyone has one. (If the DOB is unknown I put in a code number 1900-01-01. I also have a code 1800-01-01 for ficiticous records.)
This is a simple 80:20 (80 percent of the effect, 20 percent of the effort) solution.
Don't you mean 80% of the effort/20% of the solution?
Even if this were true, guess what? Nobody was forcing these people to work at MS. There was no gun to the head. Besides being a contractor can be far better than being an employee depending on your prespective.
Spoken like a true Randite. Giving an employee the choice of contractor status or the dole (in the early 90's) isn't a choice.
It sounds like the IRS, much like the contractors in this situation got a little bit greedy to me. The contractors were ticked that the employees were living it up on stock options
These are contractors that were employees, so their view was likely that MS had screwed them out of the same stock options.
Clearcut how? The 20 questions are vague at best. The motivations of the involved parties are highly questionable. Not to mention the fact that NOTHING WAS STOPPING THESE CONTRACTORS from seeking alternative forms of employment during the internet boom that happened between 1998-2001.
Except that the screwage occurred back around 1992, when the job market sucked donkey dicks (like it does today).
This is silly. Unions normally do this but it's not a duty. It's not fair for the non union members to benefit from the activities of the union. They should be left to negotiate with management by themselves outside of the union.
How do you justify this in light of the common practice of charging union dues to non-union employees?
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First off, virtually anybody who is "perm" these days doesn't know what in the hell they're doing. They're trading away a lot of money for a false sense of security.
Except for the past year or so where your contract ends and you find that nobody wants to pay more than $25/hr for work that used to be $60+/hr. That and 6 or more months between contracts make for some rough times.
Yes, god forbid I should have multiple concurrent conections to "the internet access". Does that mean I can't read the web while downloading something? Christ, every modern web browser uses at least two concurrent connections to download a page, usually four.
This is probably a holdover from the days of dialup. I can't tell if they've mentioned it explicitly, but they're probably referring to the practice of using two modems to connect with the same account.
(m) Scrolling. You agree not to cause the screen to "scroll" faster than other subscribers or users are able to type to it, or any action to a similar disruptive effect on or through the Access Service.
this sounds like it is one of the enumerated, but not exhaustive forms of unfriendly behavior that they're prohibiting. An English translation would be 'don't spam IRC or other line-based chat programs'.
I still don't understand how a software-only company can make a decent profit if its main software products are free of charge.
Support and consultation, which is where most of the money is anyways. Also keep in mind that most software is written in-house for private use. This is a prime example where collaboration can help reduce costs and improve quality.
He had me share her exchange inbox, I didn't do much else other than that. He said it was because she was filing a sexual harassment lawsuit (untrue) and was just trying to find out if she was dating anyone from the office.
I'd probably inform her surreptitiously and then delay. Hell, with that kind of crap excuse, he's basically ordering me to commit a crime.
I tend to cringe when I see arguments that hinge on "looking to nature" as a role model for human behavior.
If we really did that, then righteousness would be determined by combat, with the winner awarded the prize of continuing to live.
As far as cloning goes, you could really screw up somebody's life by sneaking into someone's house while they sleep and xeroxing them twice. Then there'd be three of him (maybe four). He couldn't really kill them, because that's murder (or is it suicide?) and you'd still have to hide the bodies. If he tried to take advantage of it, he'd be tripping fraud alerts all the time, and the IRS would get really pissed at him for living simultaneously in New York and Seattle and then claiming non-resident tax status because he also lives in Germany. And what happens if one of his clones goes bad and robs a bank? If you think it's bad getting your records confused with a deadbeat with the same name, imagine if it's you (sort of).
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It's all the extra 15" monitors in my garage that need to go somewhere.
Hey, that's what Ebay is for.
Why are we quarantining people over something with a 4% mortality rate?
Because it's Big! and Scary! and it has a catchy name!
While I allow users to reset their password, I leave the default password the DOB. It's hard enough to guess, everyone has one. (If the DOB is unknown I put in a code number 1900-01-01. I also have a code 1800-01-01 for ficiticous records.)
This is a simple 80:20 (80 percent of the effect, 20 percent of the effort) solution.
Don't you mean 80% of the effort/20% of the solution?
If you asked a judge whether you could analyze coca-cola in a lab, what do you think the answer would be?
Yes.
The reality is that the secret formula for Coke has no value to anyone save for Coca Cola and counterfeiters. To everyone else, it is a curiousity.
Even if this were true, guess what? Nobody was forcing these people to work at MS. There was no gun to the head. Besides being a contractor can be far better than being an employee depending on your prespective.
Spoken like a true Randite. Giving an employee the choice of contractor status or the dole (in the early 90's) isn't a choice.
It sounds like the IRS, much like the contractors in this situation got a little bit greedy to me. The contractors were ticked that the employees were living it up on stock options
These are contractors that were employees, so their view was likely that MS had screwed them out of the same stock options.
Clearcut how? The 20 questions are vague at best. The motivations of the involved parties are highly questionable. Not to mention the fact that NOTHING WAS STOPPING THESE CONTRACTORS from seeking alternative forms of employment during the internet boom that happened between 1998-2001.
Except that the screwage occurred back around 1992, when the job market sucked donkey dicks (like it does today).
the contractor party was the wildest nearly 24 hours of drunken debauchery I've ever been to.
So, how many employees tried to get into the contractor party next year?
This is silly. Unions normally do this but it's not a duty. It's not fair for the non union members to benefit from the activities of the union. They should be left to negotiate with management by themselves outside of the union.
How do you justify this in light of the common practice of charging union dues to non-union employees?
"Gun Control" is actually victim disarmament
Nah, Gun control means a 3 inch group at 50 feet.
First off, virtually anybody who is "perm" these days doesn't know what in the hell they're doing. They're trading away a lot of money for a false sense of security.
Except for the past year or so where your contract ends and you find that nobody wants to pay more than $25/hr for work that used to be $60+/hr. That and 6 or more months between contracts make for some rough times.
Yes, god forbid I should have multiple concurrent conections to "the internet access". Does that mean I can't read the web while downloading something? Christ, every modern web browser uses at least two concurrent connections to download a page, usually four.
This is probably a holdover from the days of dialup. I can't tell if they've mentioned it explicitly, but they're probably referring to the practice of using two modems to connect with the same account.
(m) Scrolling. You agree not to cause the screen to "scroll" faster than other subscribers or users are able to type to it, or any action to a similar disruptive effect on or through the Access Service.
this sounds like it is one of the enumerated, but not exhaustive forms of unfriendly behavior that they're prohibiting. An English translation would be 'don't spam IRC or other line-based chat programs'.
Article 9. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
Well, I'm pretty sure we haven't signed this particular bill. Even if we have, it's probably buried under all those past-due notices from the UN.
I meant to say that Solaris wants to be Windows.
That's easy to do. Just use a Sparc with dodgy l2 cache.
I usually get called "the internet's down".
That still beats "The computer fleetly, mouse and all!"
It's too much work to say it. I propose the much simpler, and more accurate, "virgin."
Nah, there are plenty of married admins, and you don't want to lump them in with grade-schoolers.
For 1800 yes, I'd probably go up to 2500Y or so and just spend the night at Isakaya. 90 minute drink tickets are where it's at!
6 BUCKS?! Where do you live, anyway? Everywhere I go around here it's $8.50.
I still don't understand how a software-only company can make a decent profit if its main software products are free of charge.
Support and consultation, which is where most of the money is anyways. Also keep in mind that most software is written in-house for private use. This is a prime example where collaboration can help reduce costs and improve quality.
o it's very possible that tons of aerostatic but chemically intact nanotubes will rain to earth over the year or so following the cable's failure.
Question is, would you even notice? A couple KT of carbon spread out over 10 degrees of latitude around the planet isn't very much.
No, less than a twentieth of a trillion. Read their FAQ before posting here.
Hey, that's less than half of what we spent on GulfWar II! And there'd probably be more lasting benefit to one of these.
Is it ethical to write software that cannot be copied in any way, and has limits put on its use?
Why would there be any question about this? Your software, your choice.
Should software be copyrighted at all?
How is this an ethical question?
He had me share her exchange inbox, I didn't do much else other than that. He said it was because she was filing a sexual harassment lawsuit (untrue) and was just trying to find out if she was dating anyone from the office.
I'd probably inform her surreptitiously and then delay. Hell, with that kind of crap excuse, he's basically ordering me to commit a crime.
an anyone remember the guy who tried to patent the predecessor to the hyperlink and tried suing all the big online providers?
That was BT, and I believe they finally saw reason and stopped pressing that particular idiocy.
I tend to cringe when I see arguments that hinge on "looking to nature" as a role model for human behavior.
If we really did that, then righteousness would be determined by combat, with the winner awarded the prize of continuing to live.
As far as cloning goes, you could really screw up somebody's life by sneaking into someone's house while they sleep and xeroxing them twice. Then there'd be three of him (maybe four). He couldn't really kill them, because that's murder (or is it suicide?) and you'd still have to hide the bodies. If he tried to take advantage of it, he'd be tripping fraud alerts all the time, and the IRS would get really pissed at him for living simultaneously in New York and Seattle and then claiming non-resident tax status because he also lives in Germany. And what happens if one of his clones goes bad and robs a bank? If you think it's bad getting your records confused with a deadbeat with the same name, imagine if it's you (sort of).
Hurt me! Hurt me! Make me write bad code for M$!
No, you've got it all wrong, it's 'Whip me, beat me, make me admin AIX'.