Part of this is about tact. There are people who are good at lying and there are people who are good at telling the truth (and putting a positive spin on it).
Telling your female co-worker about her hair... think of the options
How do you like my hair today?
a) Anything to take the focus off your face (thanks JC)
b) It looks like crap, WTF did you do that for
c) It's not too bad, but I don't really care for it
d) I liked your old hairstyle better/you know, I really liked it when you had your hair X way
Obviously A and B are going to piss somebody off, or really hurt their feelings. C is a bit more polite, but D not only avoids the negetive comment but gives a positive suggestion in that you liked the old hairstyle. The above is pretty much common sense to some people, but I think they actually have courses/etc about using method D (basicaly a positive redirect).
a) They would feel quite guilty in lying, especially depending on the degree of the lie and those involved - so that it would eat at them morally
b) They'd spend an overly large amount of time wondering if/when they will get caught at the lie, and weighing the consequences of getting caught in s omething improper now or getting caught later and also caught lying.
Again, it all depends on the degree of the lie. Telling your fiancee the diamond is real Vs telling her that you like her meatloaf are two different things (you can choose which is worse... one can end up having you dumped, the other a longterm supply of meatloaf *shudder*)
And the unmarried ones had the same complaints about never meeting appropriate girls, too.
How is the proliferation of geek females. It seems that from some of the comments there is at least a "trendy" female technoculture. How many are true geeks, the type that like video games, linux, or other such things?
I know that it's hard to meet true geek girls around here... and I don't mean date I mean meet - I meet lots of people and even dating isn't too much an issue. Does such a population and the current tech boom mean an increase in female geekculture?
Beware, if the answer is yes... you may just get a whole hoard of US geeks "insourcing" themselves to India
They do your return for you, at least in the respect that they can lay it out with the info they'd expect you to provide. If too much of a disrepancy shows up on your actual return (which very likely you would still have to provide)... it's audit time.
But seriously, nowadays you can't even trust a bank to calculate payments/interest on your money correctly, would you really trust a government agency with your tax return?
It doesn't really say on the page, but I'm wondering just what it can tunnel?
I know a lot of people whom play LAN games are looking for a good VPN server/client which is easily NAT'able - to be used for playing LAN (often using IPX/SPX protocol) games or using LAN software as if two remote computers are within the same network.
Anyone tried this for those purposes?
So far, I've played a lot with GIT for such purposes, but it doesn't do exactly what I want, and doesn't seem overly secure (though possibly faster than VPN)
Yes... trying to figure out exactly what *THAT* is about. I was thinking that maybe an actual server with OS was being sold, and that the server box was branded "Michael Jordon" or something similar. Weird, at any rate.
It's neat to see whom actually bids on these things. Checking out the comments on the high bidder:
Perfect Transaction, Fast payment, True Gentleman, Please enjoy your PORSCHEAAA+
and another less happy:
only 1 bid & insisted that I sell him a MichaelJordan/ XP Bus Server SW for 9.99
$gt; A winning bid is a winning bid; my friend! Period! ! ! Now ship my product!!!
Quite amusing... these people live in a different world than I. Enjoy your PORSCHEAAA+ indeed
Actually, if you've got a laptop that would be about 1/6 the size of your hard-drive, possibly less (physical size).
Still, it's not meant as a hard-drive replacement... and it's still in the earlier stages. Maybe a slightly bigger version would hold more space. Comparing to current size you could probably get the equivilent to a DVD-R on a smaller size, so perhaps it would be good in video-game systems... somewhat like going back to the old Nintendo cartridge format.
IE6, which doesn't run on windows 95. This might not seem like a big deal, win95 is outdated... but when you've got a whole corporation with win95 and need new licenses in the thousands to replace it...
A lot of people are blaming this on allowing HTML in email, but the fact is that HTML is a *STATIC* language... it can't - or at least shouldn't be able to - hurt your PC.
Now, by either having a parse exploit with the HTML (bad client coding), or allowing scripts (really poor security) then problems arise...
Personally, I dumped Outlook a loooong time ago. Thunderbird is nice and not hard for most users to switch to, my primary beef is that it doesn't seem to have an option to block images but allow by sender/site - or to allow a particular message to be clicked to show images (some catalogues I get via subscription in my email have images I want to see)
With all the spying, prying viruses out there, how hard would it be for the windows source to be "stolen" via a backdoor, grabbed password, or whatever. It would be an interesting case, a windows exploit allows somebody to hack company X and steal windows source... who is at fault: MS for the exploit or company X for the "insecure" server?
To state that the cause of the blackout was "buggy code" is a bit much. A factor, yes. Major factor, perhaps. But the fact is that there were - and still are - many things wrong with the system that led to the power disruptions experienced.
Your points are good. And besides... 9-1-1 works with my cellphone, though my provider is not necessarily a government agency.
My cellphone company tacks on a little $1.00 or so 9-1-1 charge. I probably brings in more cash than it loses in connectivity fees, but it's worth it (broke my ankle recently with nobody around, certainly appreciated being able to call an ambulance then).
tarting a process in response to detecting insertion of a storage media
Hell, your average CD player does this... it starts a play process when a disc is inserted. Ditto for various media player all the way back to 8-track-tapes and earlier.
And that's besides the fact. Autoplay isn't really about detecting media insertion is it... since that's been around forever (you don't have to "mount/cdrom" in windows, or even DOS, do you?), it's about checking for the presence of and running a dumb little "autorun" file after the disc has been inserted.
Christians also seem to be the only ones telling me I'm going to burn in hell forever. Doesn't seem very nice of them.
Christians semi-often tell this to each other, so I wouldn't pay too much attention to it. One of the reasons I dislike and do not attend church is that many, in addition to the nice music etc, spend too much time telling me the things I will burn for and less pointing out the good things people are doing - or can do.
Not all Christians are bad, but a goodly many (and keep in mind I'm technically Christian) spend too much time stamping out "the devil" and trying to fight supposed evils as opposed to trying to do good.
I've often wondered about these "weird" versions of windows. I've never seen a windows 1.0, actually never a 2.0. At one point it was simply DOS, and various DOS-shells... then windows 3.1 came up and we used it to run office products.
Anyone have a copy of windows 1.0, how about some screenshots. It would be an interesting insite into the roots of windows itself, as I think that the early versions were not very prevalent nor popular until 3.0/3.1
I'm going to relax listening new panaphonic stereo... maybe catch some TV on my new magnetbox, and perhaps even play around with my Sorny laptop for awhile...
The Simpsons was a little broad about the point of offbranding items with similar names, but it's not like it hasn't happened in other industries before. When nobody is mistaking product X for product Y, there shouldn't be a problem.
Anyone get the prof's email? If anything, we could let him know what we think of this idiocy (no threats please, well-supported points are much more powerful than baseless threats).
Well, for conversion from RPM to DEB (and supposedly the other way around), alien has worked quite well for me (apt-get install alien). Thus far I've managed to convert+install several RPM's that otherwise would not have worked very well on my debian system.
The ramifications reach beyond the painfully obvious privacy issues, touching on outsourcing and peer ethics.
To hell with outsourcing and peer ethics, how about outsourcing and accountability. We know that there is quite often a loss of quality and/or integrity caused by outsourcing, especially with such touchy information. What I want to know, is that when the sh*t hits the fan and damages me or somebody I care about, whom do we hold accountable?
Yes, but you might find that many pr0nsters are stuck once hooked. That is, you buy individual music. Most internet pr0n works on subscription, so if you ever were to subscribe to a site you liked, chances are you could go up to a year renewing said subscription. Some of those subscriptions seem quite pricey too, so I'd imagine there's money in keeping somebody on the hook.
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Part of this is about tact. There are people who are good at lying and there are people who are good at telling the truth (and putting a positive spin on it).
Telling your female co-worker about her hair... think of the options
How do you like my hair today?
a) Anything to take the focus off your face (thanks JC)
b) It looks like crap, WTF did you do that for
c) It's not too bad, but I don't really care for it
d) I liked your old hairstyle better/you know, I really liked it when you had your hair X way
Obviously A and B are going to piss somebody off, or really hurt their feelings. C is a bit more polite, but D not only avoids the negetive comment but gives a positive suggestion in that you liked the old hairstyle. The above is pretty much common sense to some people, but I think they actually have courses/etc about using method D (basicaly a positive redirect).
a) They would feel quite guilty in lying, especially depending on the degree of the lie and those involved - so that it would eat at them morally
b) They'd spend an overly large amount of time wondering if/when they will get caught at the lie, and weighing the consequences of getting caught in s omething improper now or getting caught later and also caught lying.
Again, it all depends on the degree of the lie. Telling your fiancee the diamond is real Vs telling her that you like her meatloaf are two different things (you can choose which is worse... one can end up having you dumped, the other a longterm supply of meatloaf *shudder*)
And the unmarried ones had the same complaints about never meeting appropriate girls, too.
How is the proliferation of geek females. It seems that from some of the comments there is at least a "trendy" female technoculture. How many are true geeks, the type that like video games, linux, or other such things?
I know that it's hard to meet true geek girls around here... and I don't mean date I mean meet - I meet lots of people and even dating isn't too much an issue. Does such a population and the current tech boom mean an increase in female geekculture?
Beware, if the answer is yes... you may just get a whole hoard of US geeks "insourcing" themselves to India
They do your return for you, at least in the respect that they can lay it out with the info they'd expect you to provide. If too much of a disrepancy shows up on your actual return (which very likely you would still have to provide)... it's audit time.
But seriously, nowadays you can't even trust a bank to calculate payments/interest on your money correctly, would you really trust a government agency with your tax return?
It doesn't really say on the page, but I'm wondering just what it can tunnel?
I know a lot of people whom play LAN games are looking for a good VPN server/client which is easily NAT'able - to be used for playing LAN (often using IPX/SPX protocol) games or using LAN software as if two remote computers are within the same network.
Anyone tried this for those purposes?
So far, I've played a lot with GIT for such purposes, but it doesn't do exactly what I want, and doesn't seem overly secure (though possibly faster than VPN)
Don't worry, my grandkids will have a little penguin logo tattoo.
Yes... trying to figure out exactly what *THAT* is about. I was thinking that maybe an actual server with OS was being sold, and that the server box was branded "Michael Jordon" or something similar. Weird, at any rate.
It's neat to see whom actually bids on these things. Checking out the comments on the high bidder:
Perfect Transaction, Fast payment, True Gentleman, Please enjoy your PORSCHEAAA+
and another less happy:
only 1 bid & insisted that I sell him a MichaelJordan/ XP Bus Server SW for 9.99
$gt; A winning bid is a winning bid; my friend! Period! ! ! Now ship my product!!!
Quite amusing... these people live in a different world than I. Enjoy your PORSCHEAAA+ indeed
Actually, if you've got a laptop that would be about 1/6 the size of your hard-drive, possibly less (physical size).
Still, it's not meant as a hard-drive replacement... and it's still in the earlier stages. Maybe a slightly bigger version would hold more space. Comparing to current size you could probably get the equivilent to a DVD-R on a smaller size, so perhaps it would be good in video-game systems... somewhat like going back to the old Nintendo cartridge format.
Less motion, perhaps more reliable?
Could be a chick-magnet. How many guys do you know that have an F/A-18 in their front yard.
I wonder though, how does a cockpit compare for space to say, a backseat of an expensive sports-car? Sports-car is probably cheaper.
IE6, which doesn't run on windows 95. This might not seem like a big deal, win95 is outdated... but when you've got a whole corporation with win95 and need new licenses in the thousands to replace it...
A lot of people are blaming this on allowing HTML in email, but the fact is that HTML is a *STATIC* language... it can't - or at least shouldn't be able to - hurt your PC.
Now, by either having a parse exploit with the HTML (bad client coding), or allowing scripts (really poor security) then problems arise...
Personally, I dumped Outlook a loooong time ago. Thunderbird is nice and not hard for most users to switch to, my primary beef is that it doesn't seem to have an option to block images but allow by sender/site - or to allow a particular message to be clicked to show images (some catalogues I get via subscription in my email have images I want to see)
With all the spying, prying viruses out there, how hard would it be for the windows source to be "stolen" via a backdoor, grabbed password, or whatever. It would be an interesting case, a windows exploit allows somebody to hack company X and steal windows source... who is at fault: MS for the exploit or company X for the "insecure" server?
Firstly, SCO has many people gunning against them on the legal battleground right now, not just the cases they are pressing against others.
Secondly, if SCO is involved in litigation against Linux, then it seems to me that both are in some what legally enmeshed.
How they can claim they are not "encumbered" is beyond me.
To state that the cause of the blackout was "buggy code" is a bit much. A factor, yes. Major factor, perhaps. But the fact is that there were - and still are - many things wrong with the system that led to the power disruptions experienced.
Your points are good. And besides... 9-1-1 works with my cellphone, though my provider is not necessarily a government agency.
My cellphone company tacks on a little $1.00 or so 9-1-1 charge. I probably brings in more cash than it loses in connectivity fees, but it's worth it (broke my ankle recently with nobody around, certainly appreciated being able to call an ambulance then).
tarting a process in response to detecting insertion of a storage media
/cdrom" in windows, or even DOS, do you?), it's about checking for the presence of and running a dumb little "autorun" file after the disc has been inserted.
Hell, your average CD player does this... it starts a play process when a disc is inserted. Ditto for various media player all the way back to 8-track-tapes and earlier.
And that's besides the fact. Autoplay isn't really about detecting media insertion is it... since that's been around forever (you don't have to "mount
Christians also seem to be the only ones telling me I'm going to burn in hell forever. Doesn't seem very nice of them.
Christians semi-often tell this to each other, so I wouldn't pay too much attention to it. One of the reasons I dislike and do not attend church is that many, in addition to the nice music etc, spend too much time telling me the things I will burn for and less pointing out the good things people are doing - or can do.
Not all Christians are bad, but a goodly many (and keep in mind I'm technically Christian) spend too much time stamping out "the devil" and trying to fight supposed evils as opposed to trying to do good.
I've often wondered about these "weird" versions of windows. I've never seen a windows 1.0, actually never a 2.0. At one point it was simply DOS, and various DOS-shells... then windows 3.1 came up and we used it to run office products.
Anyone have a copy of windows 1.0, how about some screenshots. It would be an interesting insite into the roots of windows itself, as I think that the early versions were not very prevalent nor popular until 3.0/3.1
Enjoy driving around in your Yolkswagon Getta...
I'm going to relax listening new panaphonic stereo... maybe catch some TV on my new magnetbox, and perhaps even play around with my Sorny laptop for awhile...
The Simpsons was a little broad about the point of offbranding items with similar names, but it's not like it hasn't happened in other industries before. When nobody is mistaking product X for product Y, there shouldn't be a problem.
Anyone get the prof's email? If anything, we could let him know what we think of this idiocy (no threats please, well-supported points are much more powerful than baseless threats).
Well, for conversion from RPM to DEB (and supposedly the other way around), alien has worked quite well for me (apt-get install alien). Thus far I've managed to convert+install several RPM's that otherwise would not have worked very well on my debian system.
More realistic seeming skin could be a bonus not only for robotics as in AI, but as in prosthetics.
Artificial limbs can be made to seem more lifelike with such substance, making them less obtrusive for those who use them.
The ramifications reach beyond the painfully obvious privacy issues, touching on outsourcing and peer ethics.
To hell with outsourcing and peer ethics, how about outsourcing and accountability. We know that there is quite often a loss of quality and/or integrity caused by outsourcing, especially with such touchy information. What I want to know, is that when the sh*t hits the fan and damages me or somebody I care about, whom do we hold accountable?
Yes, but you might find that many pr0nsters are stuck once hooked. That is, you buy individual music. Most internet pr0n works on subscription, so if you ever were to subscribe to a site you liked, chances are you could go up to a year renewing said subscription. Some of those subscriptions seem quite pricey too, so I'd imagine there's money in keeping somebody on the hook.