Unless you have a contract or family obligation to be contactable at all or certain hours then you have every right to go incommunicado whenever you want as long as you respect everyone elses right to do the same.
The U.S. Constitution only prohibits the government from abridging the freedom of speech or the right of peaceable assembly. It does not require either the government or the people to provide a free (as in beer) forum for the exercise of those rights.
I've been using a 900MHz VTech 920ADL for years. It's on its second battery and the handset case is worn smooth, other than that it works fine. Good range, very little noise, and it didn't cost a bundle. I still keep an old no-frills wired phone at the house distribution frame just in case.
What's more amazing than your employer hiring you with that attitude is that you were willing to work for them when they were foolish enough to tolerate your attitude. Your standards are even lower than theirs.
Get real. This incident did not create jobs, it unnecessarily diverted manhours from company projects and customer support. If a stranger comes into your business and requires your employees to do work for him (or that he made necessary) and does not compensate you for the time lost that you are paying the employees to do YOUR work, then he is stealing from you, plain and simple.
His "nothing significant" little exploit cost us several hundred HelpDesk and SysAdmin manhours cleaning up the mess it made and we're just one company. He knew it was wrong and he did it anyway. That's malice, he needs to be put away.
If your goal is to spread panic and fear throughout the enemy's civilian population as well as tie up their medical resources, biologicals are hard to beat. They're not very practical on an active battlefield though. Too slow acting and the bugs don't do IFF.
Austin is very tech savvy and has more PhD's per square mile than anywhere else in the country. We also have a city council whose intelligence completely offsets that of the rest of the population. We believe in balance.
I average 24000 miles a year on my '96 Suburban. With the back end full of parts and tools it gets 18-24 mpg in the winter and 16-20 mpg in the summer. I have no complaints.
This is another case of something that needs to be done right or not at all. The purpose of a non-lethal defensive weapon is to disable your attacker for a long enough period that you can retreat to safety. If it is inadequate its use could cost you your life. On the side, if you are just out to shock your friends for a joke, be prepared for the consequences.
Enlisted people, at least in the US Armed Forces, do the troubleshooting, maintenance, and repair of just about everything including computer systems. They are very good at it. The officers are there to operate and break stuff. They too are very good at it.
I drive the 1800lb plastic minivan, the wife and kids I put in the 7000lb cast-iron-and-steel Suburban. They've been hit three times now and always walked away without a scratch. That's worth the TCO and 23mpg.
It doesn't matter which browser you use, that new calculator is still ugly. The HP15C is a good example of how a pocket calculator should look and work.
For the battery-life thread, mine is still running on the original 1983 batteries.
That thing is painful to look at and resembles something out of my kid's Transformers collection. What's wrong with rectangular keys and straight columns and rows other than Marketing doesn't think that's 'cool' enough? On the plus side, it has a "last x" key. The 48GX doesn't have one and I miss it.
What ever happened to quality of service? It's dead my friend. As the AT&T CIO put it so clearly "we work to achieve best-in-class margins." Quality be damned, he's going for maximum profit. That attitude is epidemic these days and I blame its existence on the CEO/CIO/C-whatever management model. Their pay and bonuses depend more on happy shareholders than happy customers and when they finish running off all the customers and employees at one place they just move on.
Exposing the innards of any form of black box be it hardware or software is a great help to anyone using it provided they have the background knowledge to understand what they are looking at. That's my point - teach or learn the basics first. It's like starting out as a Windows admin and moving up to Unix et al. When you start using the command line you quickly discover your ignorance of the finer points of the operating system and hardware that the GUI has kept hidden from you. It's knowledge of those finer points that make the difference between an appliance operator and real system admin. Same for an engineer, designer, programmer or maintenance guy - the good ones know the nuts and bolts and get paid accordingly.
When they are starting out - yes. Black box programming or hardware construction is fine until it comes time to figure out why your black box isn't behaving as you expect it to. That's when you have to know what is going on inside that black box. Or hire someone else who knows and charges accordingly. Better to learn the guts early on and be the expensive knowledgeable guy than the one calling for help.
Heathkits! That was the way to learn electronics. You started with a 2 or 3 transistor springclips-on-Masonite breadboard and worked your way up to some pretty good test equipment or maybe a TV, stereo, or ham gear. The manuals were excellent and nobody since has ever even come close to their quality. Every Heathkit I ever built is still going strong. Wish they would come back.
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Unless you have a contract or family obligation to be contactable at all or certain hours then you have every right to go incommunicado whenever you want as long as you respect everyone elses right to do the same.
The U.S. Constitution only prohibits the government from abridging the freedom of speech or the right of peaceable assembly. It does not require either the government or the people to provide a free (as in beer) forum for the exercise of those rights.
I've been using a 900MHz VTech 920ADL for years. It's on its second battery and the handset case is worn smooth, other than that it works fine. Good range, very little noise, and it didn't cost a bundle. I still keep an old no-frills wired phone at the house distribution frame just in case.
They'll come preloaded and run as services so they won't count against your application limit.
What's more amazing than your employer hiring you with that attitude is that you were willing to work for them when they were foolish enough to tolerate your attitude. Your standards are even lower than theirs.
Get real. This incident did not create jobs, it unnecessarily diverted manhours from company projects and customer support. If a stranger comes into your business and requires your employees to do work for him (or that he made necessary) and does not compensate you for the time lost that you are paying the employees to do YOUR work, then he is stealing from you, plain and simple.
His "nothing significant" little exploit cost us several hundred HelpDesk and SysAdmin manhours cleaning up the mess it made and we're just one company. He knew it was wrong and he did it anyway. That's malice, he needs to be put away.
If your goal is to spread panic and fear throughout the enemy's civilian population as well as tie up their medical resources, biologicals are hard to beat. They're not very practical on an active battlefield though. Too slow acting and the bugs don't do IFF.
Austin is very tech savvy and has more PhD's per square mile than anywhere else in the country. We also have a city council whose intelligence completely offsets that of the rest of the population. We believe in balance.
I average 24000 miles a year on my '96 Suburban. With the back end full of parts and tools it gets 18-24 mpg in the winter and 16-20 mpg in the summer. I have no complaints.
This is another case of something that needs to be done right or not at all. The purpose of a non-lethal defensive weapon is to disable your attacker for a long enough period that you can retreat to safety. If it is inadequate its use could cost you your life. On the side, if you are just out to shock your friends for a joke, be prepared for the consequences.
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alternative.Enlisted people, at least in the US Armed Forces, do the troubleshooting, maintenance, and repair of just about everything including computer systems. They are very good at it. The officers are there to operate and break stuff. They too are very good at it.
I drive the 1800lb plastic minivan, the wife and kids I put in the 7000lb cast-iron-and-steel Suburban. They've been hit three times now and always walked away without a scratch. That's worth the TCO and 23mpg.
It doesn't matter which browser you use, that new calculator is still ugly. The HP15C is a good example of how a pocket calculator should look and work.
For the battery-life thread, mine is still running on the original 1983 batteries.
That thing is painful to look at and resembles something out of my kid's Transformers collection. What's wrong with rectangular keys and straight columns and rows other than Marketing doesn't think that's 'cool' enough? On the plus side, it has a "last x" key. The 48GX doesn't have one and I miss it.
What ever happened to quality of service? It's dead my friend. As the AT&T CIO put it so clearly "we work to achieve best-in-class margins." Quality be damned, he's going for maximum profit. That attitude is epidemic these days and I blame its existence on the CEO/CIO/C-whatever management model. Their pay and bonuses depend more on happy shareholders than happy customers and when they finish running off all the customers and employees at one place they just move on.
Exposing the innards of any form of black box be it hardware or software is a great help to anyone using it provided they have the background knowledge to understand what they are looking at. That's my point - teach or learn the basics first. It's like starting out as a Windows admin and moving up to Unix et al. When you start using the command line you quickly discover your ignorance of the finer points of the operating system and hardware that the GUI has kept hidden from you. It's knowledge of those finer points that make the difference between an appliance operator and real system admin. Same for an engineer, designer, programmer or maintenance guy - the good ones know the nuts and bolts and get paid accordingly.
When they are starting out - yes. Black box programming or hardware construction is fine until it comes time to figure out why your black box isn't behaving as you expect it to. That's when you have to know what is going on inside that black box. Or hire someone else who knows and charges accordingly. Better to learn the guts early on and be the expensive knowledgeable guy than the one calling for help.
Heathkits! That was the way to learn electronics. You started with a 2 or 3 transistor springclips-on-Masonite breadboard and worked your way up to some pretty good test equipment or maybe a TV, stereo, or ham gear. The manuals were excellent and nobody since has ever even come close to their quality. Every Heathkit I ever built is still going strong. Wish they would come back.
Sometimes it's better not to take credit for something. The next time you or your kid gets hurt on a swing of this design, sue the patent holder.