Have you asked your employer about allowed personal use on said laptop? Are they cool with use that doesn't touch the contents of the hard drive? I have a 2.5" USB HDD in a USB-powered enclosure (Vantec=recommended). It's got a bootable Linux distro with a browser, utilities, and games etc for when I don't want to expose *my* data to possible viruses on relatives' machines.
I wasn't complaining. My fiancee is also an immigrant. Our take on it is: I'm learning (or at least trying to learn) her language/culture/laws so that I can get around better when I visit her home-country. It also helps me better understand + communicate both with my fiancee and her family, and not get into trouble.
I visit once every few years, I couldn't imagine not trying to integrate with laws/language/culture when actually moving to another country. That's just asking for trouble, not to mention disrespectful.
Follow the law, learn the culture, and learn the language. MOST people I know do so. For the others, WHY even move if you don't respect the country you're going to?
"it even took effort to realize that the LinkedIn profile showed the contract agency, with the client company in the small print, while the resume showed only the client company, in nearly every job"
Does the contract agency really matter that much? If the applicant has a couple years at a reputable company, then assumedly that company kept him/her because of good work, regardless of which headhunter got the initial interview.
I haven't used it myself, but I know many people who have moved to Mint as a nice midpoint between 'buntu and Debian. It'll likely be my next choice when I do a fresh install.
$1.40 in parts of Canada, but we're hugely spread out compared to Europe etc, and we're also a fairly heavy producer/exporter of petroleum. Since most if not all of the gas companies and refineries are owned by the US though, all that gas goes south and Canadians pay more than the USA does...
A person's actions don't have to be 100% evil or 100% good. You can hate it when a so-called 1% abuses and manipulates the law to avoid taxes and create monopolies, but applaud when they do something philanthropic. Wealth creates power, and those with it can do evil, good, or oft-times both.
Some people are more well known for abuse than philanthropy, or vise-versa.
You have 2048 randomly entangled bits. Somebody on the other side of the world has the matching pair of 2048 randomly entangled bits.
Not useful for communication per-se if you can't influence them, but if you could *READ* them without influencing them, they'd be darn spiffy for an encryption key or seed shared between two parties.
Simple XOR encryption would be awesome so long as you both have synchronized reading of the encrypted bits. Take message, XOR it against the encryption key, send to recipient, recipient XOR's it against same encryption key and gets the encryption message. Next chunk of data, you both have a new key courtesy of your shared entangled bits.
The issue again being that you'd need to have: a) Bits that change state randomly on an interval that fits your data throughput b) a very fine synchronization between how often the bits change state and when you send/receive data, so that both parties are using the same key/mask.
There's a big issue where Robocalls were made during election time that were: a) Tricking voters into going to the wrong voting booth b) Irritating or bothersome in nature, e.g. during late hours or to Jewish constituents during Sabbath, etc c) Generally as annoying/misleading as possible
The issue issue at hand... the callers said they were calling on behalf of the "Liberal" party. However, the current accusation is that they were actually made by a different party (the one in power), and one staff member has already resigned over the issue.
So simply dropping support for a business/party/etc based on an annoying call might not be a good idea.
I have a CD (I think it was either "Machinehead" or "Bad Company" that has a very noticeable hiss on some systems. It reminds me of when I played tapes in crappy decks, and makes me wonder if the CD was recorded from a cheaper analog system. On tapes it probably would have been *less* noticeable as many decks actually had noise-reduction stuff build in.
History seems to have a lot of impact on current German laws etc. While much of the rest of the world seems willing to flush privacy down the toilet, Europe and Germany in particular are pretty damn vocal about respecting privacy etc. I'd put a lot of this to them realizing the dangers of collecting massive amounts of data on private citizens movements/likes/dislikes/religion/political-views/etc, and how such data could be abused.
Also, when you have your own child, then hopefully you have (some) idea of what might be in store for you genetics/environment wise. You know the family history (if it's bad, then maybe adoption *IS* a better option).
You also know that you aren't going to run into that possibly difficult moment where the child you've raised decides to look for the genetic parents. Knowing some people that have been adopted, the whole birth-parent-genetic-parent can be hard on a kid and on a family.
One fear of mine would be not knowing the parent of your child, and the circumstances of birth. Was the parent an alcoholic or drug user? Did the child get enough nourishment, etc while in the womb? Many children are given up because of a bad home environment, which often might have adverse factors later affecting said child's health.
That being said, I have in previous relationships discussed the possibilities of adoption. In one case it was with a partner who was somewhat older than me, and past child-bearing prime. In another case I was with somebody who did have some fertility issues and was concerned whether that might affect our relationship later on.
For me, adoption was a viable option but generally secondary to having our own child. For some others, adoption is a way to avoid personal genetic flaws or the pains of childbirth. For yet others, it's a way to give a chance to a child who may otherwise have been left behind by society, but people doing so had better be sure they're ready to face all the aspects of adoption, both good and bad.
If it's a pre-canned response, it could be something as simple as a: Response has a link stating "has your review determined that this video contains copyrighted material, yes/no" (or a multiple choice therein)
Where the "yes" button response with said canned response, and somebody either clicked the wrong response.
As somebody who has misclicked stuff on the internet before, hit CTRL+enter (or was it ALT+enter?) and prematurely blasted off a half-baked email, and many other things... it could just fall into the "crap system+dumb mistake = oh shit" type of situation.
No, but at least one member of the party has already fallen on his sword (resigned) over this. Now how far something goes to be a "party" issue VS "members of the party" I don't know, but if somebody is resigning over the issue you can pretty much put the ball in that court.
Having previously worked in several educational settings, I'd have to say that teachers (and more-so school admins) are often some of the most self-entitled irresponsible clients you could have in IT.
It's not necessarily that the IT dept sucks, but rather that the staff get in their mind that they want something right now and must have it - standards/rules be damned - and that they know better than any slob in the IT department.
To them, there's no reason why they can't go buy the cheapest laptop possible and then have IT get it to work on the school network (despite lacking PXE or fitting into the standard imaging scheme) with all the standard software. Alternately, there's no reason they shouldn't be able to go out and buy a bunch of Macs in a PC environment (or PC's in a Mac environment). There's no reason not to share out their password with the class to install software X... after all why should the class wait for IT to vet+install software that they decided yesterday is absolutely necessary.
You can't tell them they're wrong, because they're educators. They're used to telling students what's correct, so how dare some lowly IT peon tell them they're wrong.
*Disclaimer: I have worked in 3 school districts as well as various other public/private entities not related to education. The above reflects many of my experiences with teachers. Not *all* teachers are like this - more are not - and happily the newer generations of teachers seem to be less self-entitled. However, even a few rogues can certainly make an IT Dept's life miserable, and generally detracts from the quality a district receives overall due to IT being tied up fixing their crud. I don't see as much of this in non-educational settings, possibly because a rogue employee is an expense.
Crossing from Canada to the US (Vancouver->Seattle), with my fiancee who is Korean national. In her Korean passport, she has a US entry Visa stapled in (by the issuing office, not us). The US border guard gave us shit for having the staple there, stating that the Visa was "U.S. property" and that having the staple in there was disrespectful of said property.
He let us through after telling us we should complain to the gov't that put the staple there, and tell them not to do so next time.
I guess we should consider ourselves lucky for it not being call a terror-staple or something...
I'll update that to say:
More likely he says that free stuff without *good* vendor support is no good, and for most businesses he is right.
I've seen several cases these days with large vendors where their support was quite shoddy. Their support people don't seem to know much about their product (especially for win-centric products with a linux component), they take forever to turn around a case and love to play wheel-of-blame where they'll try and put any possible issues on your system/configuration before accepting that yes, perhaps their product does have a bug.
IMHO, companies I've found that have seem to good support include:
Cisco: very good at turnaround for hardware failures
RedHat: good turnaround on tickets. They usually manage to focus in on the problem within a decent timeframe
Dell Corporate: good RMA process with cross-shipping (do not confuse this with consumer-level support, which can be very different)
Of those and others, the trend seems to be that hardware companies have good support. Software companies are not quite so great for support (RedHat being good especially considering they're not necessarily the creator of said software)
May because these days there's less tech and more patents/intellectual-property...
Not that there's not a lot of cool stuff that people seem to work on, but a lot of it seems to get sliced off at the knees because of the toxic legal environment...
How about printers from those companies that are exported? I'd imagine that some countries with decent privacy laws might have something to say about this (like Germany, for example).
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Have you asked your employer about allowed personal use on said laptop?
Are they cool with use that doesn't touch the contents of the hard drive?
I have a 2.5" USB HDD in a USB-powered enclosure (Vantec=recommended). It's got a bootable Linux distro with a browser, utilities, and games etc for when I don't want to expose *my* data to possible viruses on relatives' machines.
I wasn't complaining. My fiancee is also an immigrant. Our take on it is:
I'm learning (or at least trying to learn) her language/culture/laws so that I can get around better when I visit her home-country. It also helps me better understand + communicate both with my fiancee and her family, and not get into trouble.
I visit once every few years, I couldn't imagine not trying to integrate with laws/language/culture when actually moving to another country. That's just asking for trouble, not to mention disrespectful.
Follow the law, learn the culture, and learn the language. MOST people I know do so. For the others, WHY even move if you don't respect the country you're going to?
I believe in some cases street-racing deaths have resulting in deportations (or at least attempted deportations).
"it even took effort to realize that the LinkedIn profile showed the contract agency, with the client company in the small print, while the resume showed only the client company, in nearly every job"
Does the contract agency really matter that much? If the applicant has a couple years at a reputable company, then assumedly that company kept him/her because of good work, regardless of which headhunter got the initial interview.
How about Mint?
I haven't used it myself, but I know many people who have moved to Mint as a nice midpoint between 'buntu and Debian. It'll likely be my next choice when I do a fresh install.
Our way is the only way, our reality is the only reality ...
but just in case, we'll try to be sneakier about it next time so we don't get caught.
$1.40 in parts of Canada, but we're hugely spread out compared to Europe etc, and we're also a fairly heavy producer/exporter of petroleum. Since most if not all of the gas companies and refineries are owned by the US though, all that gas goes south and Canadians pay more than the USA does...
A person's actions don't have to be 100% evil or 100% good.
You can hate it when a so-called 1% abuses and manipulates the law to avoid taxes and create monopolies, but applaud when they do something philanthropic. Wealth creates power, and those with it can do evil, good, or oft-times both.
Some people are more well known for abuse than philanthropy, or vise-versa.
You have 2048 randomly entangled bits.
Somebody on the other side of the world has the matching pair of 2048 randomly entangled bits.
Not useful for communication per-se if you can't influence them, but if you could *READ* them without influencing them, they'd be darn spiffy for an encryption key or seed shared between two parties.
Simple XOR encryption would be awesome so long as you both have synchronized reading of the encrypted bits. Take message, XOR it against the encryption key, send to recipient, recipient XOR's it against same encryption key and gets the encryption message.
Next chunk of data, you both have a new key courtesy of your shared entangled bits.
The issue again being that you'd need to have:
a) Bits that change state randomly on an interval that fits your data throughput
b) a very fine synchronization between how often the bits change state and when you send/receive data, so that both parties are using the same key/mask.
There's a big issue where Robocalls were made during election time that were:
a) Tricking voters into going to the wrong voting booth
b) Irritating or bothersome in nature, e.g. during late hours or to Jewish constituents during Sabbath, etc
c) Generally as annoying/misleading as possible
The issue issue at hand... the callers said they were calling on behalf of the "Liberal" party. However, the current accusation is that they were actually made by a different party (the one in power), and one staff member has already resigned over the issue.
So simply dropping support for a business/party/etc based on an annoying call might not be a good idea.
I have a CD (I think it was either "Machinehead" or "Bad Company" that has a very noticeable hiss on some systems.
It reminds me of when I played tapes in crappy decks, and makes me wonder if the CD was recorded from a cheaper analog system. On tapes it probably would have been *less* noticeable as many decks actually had noise-reduction stuff build in.
This is a store-bought CD, not a burn.
History seems to have a lot of impact on current German laws etc. While much of the rest of the world seems willing to flush privacy down the toilet, Europe and Germany in particular are pretty damn vocal about respecting privacy etc. I'd put a lot of this to them realizing the dangers of collecting massive amounts of data on private citizens movements/likes/dislikes/religion/political-views/etc, and how such data could be abused.
Also, when you have your own child, then hopefully you have (some) idea of what might be in store for you genetics/environment wise. You know the family history (if it's bad, then maybe adoption *IS* a better option).
You also know that you aren't going to run into that possibly difficult moment where the child you've raised decides to look for the genetic parents. Knowing some people that have been adopted, the whole birth-parent-genetic-parent can be hard on a kid and on a family.
One fear of mine would be not knowing the parent of your child, and the circumstances of birth. Was the parent an alcoholic or drug user? Did the child get enough nourishment, etc while in the womb? Many children are given up because of a bad home environment, which often might have adverse factors later affecting said child's health.
That being said, I have in previous relationships discussed the possibilities of adoption. In one case it was with a partner who was somewhat older than me, and past child-bearing prime. In another case I was with somebody who did have some fertility issues and was concerned whether that might affect our relationship later on.
For me, adoption was a viable option but generally secondary to having our own child. For some others, adoption is a way to avoid personal genetic flaws or the pains of childbirth. For yet others, it's a way to give a chance to a child who may otherwise have been left behind by society, but people doing so had better be sure they're ready to face all the aspects of adoption, both good and bad.
If it's a pre-canned response, it could be something as simple as a:
Response has a link stating "has your review determined that this video contains copyrighted material, yes/no" (or a multiple choice therein)
Where the "yes" button response with said canned response, and somebody either clicked the wrong response.
As somebody who has misclicked stuff on the internet before, hit CTRL+enter (or was it ALT+enter?) and prematurely blasted off a half-baked email, and many other things... it could just fall into the "crap system+dumb mistake = oh shit" type of situation.
Memorization trick: [S]lander is something that's [s]aid
How do you cheat at a public debate?
No, but at least one member of the party has already fallen on his sword (resigned) over this.
Now how far something goes to be a "party" issue VS "members of the party" I don't know, but if somebody is resigning over the issue you can pretty much put the ball in that court.
I use it to block facebook and google analytics javascripts as well.
From what I heard from other posts, this isn't an uncommon usage.
Having previously worked in several educational settings, I'd have to say that teachers (and more-so school admins) are often some of the most self-entitled irresponsible clients you could have in IT.
It's not necessarily that the IT dept sucks, but rather that the staff get in their mind that they want something right now and must have it - standards/rules be damned - and that they know better than any slob in the IT department.
To them, there's no reason why they can't go buy the cheapest laptop possible and then have IT get it to work on the school network (despite lacking PXE or fitting into the standard imaging scheme) with all the standard software.
Alternately, there's no reason they shouldn't be able to go out and buy a bunch of Macs in a PC environment (or PC's in a Mac environment).
There's no reason not to share out their password with the class to install software X... after all why should the class wait for IT to vet+install software that they decided yesterday is absolutely necessary.
You can't tell them they're wrong, because they're educators. They're used to telling students what's correct, so how dare some lowly IT peon tell them they're wrong.
*Disclaimer: I have worked in 3 school districts as well as various other public/private entities not related to education. The above reflects many of my experiences with teachers. Not *all* teachers are like this - more are not - and happily the newer generations of teachers seem to be less self-entitled. However, even a few rogues can certainly make an IT Dept's life miserable, and generally detracts from the quality a district receives overall due to IT being tied up fixing their crud. I don't see as much of this in non-educational settings, possibly because a rogue employee is an expense.
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Crossing from Canada to the US (Vancouver->Seattle), with my fiancee who is Korean national.
In her Korean passport, she has a US entry Visa stapled in (by the issuing office, not us). The US border guard gave us shit for having the staple there, stating that the Visa was "U.S. property" and that having the staple in there was disrespectful of said property.
He let us through after telling us we should complain to the gov't that put the staple there, and tell them not to do so next time.
I guess we should consider ourselves lucky for it not being call a terror-staple or something...
I'll update that to say:
More likely he says that free stuff without *good* vendor support is no good, and for most businesses he is right.
I've seen several cases these days with large vendors where their support was quite shoddy. Their support people don't seem to know much about their product (especially for win-centric products with a linux component), they take forever to turn around a case and love to play wheel-of-blame where they'll try and put any possible issues on your system/configuration before accepting that yes, perhaps their product does have a bug.
IMHO, companies I've found that have seem to good support include:
Cisco: very good at turnaround for hardware failures
RedHat: good turnaround on tickets. They usually manage to focus in on the problem within a decent timeframe
Dell Corporate: good RMA process with cross-shipping (do not confuse this with consumer-level support, which can be very different)
Of those and others, the trend seems to be that hardware companies have good support. Software companies are not quite so great for support (RedHat being good especially considering they're not necessarily the creator of said software)
When would they be expecting you to post on it? During or after work hours?
May because these days there's less tech and more patents/intellectual-property...
Not that there's not a lot of cool stuff that people seem to work on, but a lot of it seems to get sliced off at the knees because of the toxic legal environment...
How about printers from those companies that are exported? I'd imagine that some countries with decent privacy laws might have something to say about this (like Germany, for example).