I hope they fire a particular person from their marketing... but it's probably already done.
I was waiting for a super important call (read: production is down, four levels of management in my office, SevMax ticket open with support that costs USD 500k+/year that is going to call you back immediately promise promise), and I get this gal peddling Broadcom. I tell her sorry-I-don't-have-time-and-I'm-not-the-right-contact-for-network-equipment-in-any-case-goodbye. Thirty seconds later the phone rings again and a different girl wants to know if I am Lorens (duh) and then says Well you hung up on my colleague, that's not nice, we can hang up too - click.
Several years later that's all I can think of when I hear the name Broadcom.
At least the four levels of management in my office got some comic relief from the speakerphone, and one of them was the boss-boss of the guy who would have been the right contact for peddling network equipment (of which he probably bought maybe $1M/year)... we never did buy any Broadcom.
I saw an underage guy get blocked from a bar based on not knowing his zodiac sign. He'd borrowed the ID of a slightly older friend who looked a bit like him (but not enough). He'd learned by heart everything on the ID card, but the bouncer got suspicious and then asked him for his zodiac sign.
Maybe a generational thing indeed, this was some twenty years ago.
Hell, for me (using Kobo) they mostly cost more than a NEW paperback, delivered by Amazon!
I recently complained and was told that yeah, the price is aligned on the hardcover, and when the paperback comes out it takes them a lot of time to adjust the ebook price. If they say so... didn't buy the book.
Fretting that banks may have to pay to train software engineers to learn the tongue of their industry instead of getting to pay dirt cheap rates to retirees is very far from tugging at my heart strings.
There are banks and banks. I work at a hundred-year old bank where most of the COBOL programmers are between 30 and 45. The older ones have graduated to team lead, plain management, auditing, cost control, or other (presumably better-paying) posts. There are lots of people recruited out of school to work on COBOL (and Hadoop, and CICS, and Kafka, and OPC/TWS, and NodeJS, and if you only know one in two then you're not cross-platform).
This is good HR. There are people in HR whose job it is to plan out career paths and make sure on one hand that people don't get stuck with only outdated skills, and on the other hand that the bank doesn't get stuck with not enough people competent in a given skillset. If other banks don't have good HR, then I'm sorry for them but it's not my problem.
Yearly pay is not that great, but I have job security, I can go to the beach after work, and if you factor in that I have 56 weekdays off in a year it gets better... and bad pay is probably a consequence of having competent HR too.
It is also for variable random content. Imagine a service that returns a webpage containing the product (of the multiplication) of two numbers, followed by a list of links to ten other random number pairs you could try. It would take a 1kB page to write, but infinite space to archive *all* the results. For effect, imagine the service generates a video to show a kid how to multiply the two numbers, or drive from one place to another, or whatever use people have have now found for the Internet.
Starship Troopers - loved the twisted angle on government.
Starship Troopers... maybe nice in itself as an action/SF movie, but for the twisted angle on government you really have to read the book. I felt the political commentary was totally buffed out in the film.
It's "rouge". Rogue is what old-fashioned women apply to their faces so they'd look healthier.
Umm, no. You got it backwards, and (for once?) the Slashdot editors do it better than the random contradicting AC.
"Rouge" (French for "red", same Latin origin as "ruby") is the cosmetic, and rogue (from Latin "rogare", "ask"/"beg", same origin as "interrogate") is a excellent word to describe the guy in this story. Just because it's on Slashdot doesn't mean it's *wrong*.
I don't care about correcting AC who will probably never see this, but some poor guy might read that and believe it...
A boss that gets up and follows you into the bathroom to make sure you are "doing your job" or makes passive aggressive comments to you during your lunch about how he didn't think you were in that day.... or what about a boss who works 9 hours straight (no lunch, no breaks) at his desk and anticipates you do the same without question, while the rest of the company does 8 with breaks and lunch... and micro manages 1 person in the company, which is you.
Because he doesn't trust you. I'm not saying he's right to act that way, he's wrong, but that's the way some people are. It might get better if you stand up to him. Or you might get fired or hit in the face, YMMV. Ask your colleagues if he was like that in the beginning with them and then eased off.
Schneier misinterpreted XKCD. The words must be chosen absolutely randomly.
(But I still often use Schneier's method of taking initials from a sentence, because that's the only sane way to remember a password when it's limited to eight chars, which is a problem I regularly have to deal with).
Yes. Exactly. I just spent 4 hours the other day making a table that is mixed with dynamic controls and an amalgamation of ASP.NET and jQuery pixel fucking perfect when it came to borders for the control because it had to match the look of the old classic website to 'preserve the user experience.' What if I told you the user isn't going to notice that a button is 2 pixels higher up on this page when viewed in Internet Explorer 9? I could have spent the day doing something that adds value to the product, not fiddling with tiny quirks no user is going to notice anyway.
Don't be so sure...
$user complains that she can't open her email.
$me: we did copy over all your settings and your password hasn't changed. Can you show me?
$user: I used to click there, points to blank area on Desktop where Outlook icon used to be.
$me: try moving your pointer up half an inch and clicking there (pointing to Outlook icon).
$user: uhh OK I guess, I don't think i'll be able to get used to this new system
I mostly communicate with my coworkers over slack or mail or github, even with those literally sitting next to me, so communication isn't a problem in my case.
So "hacker" and "hacking" have entered popular language as meaning "criminals breaking into computers", but come on, this was a DDoS, an "attack" if you wish, but not a "hack" in any sense of the term.
People died while being locked in cars. Two examples are : car fallen in the water, and people sleeping in a car while owner and friend locked it. The owner came back after a long hot weeken, his friend was dead inside. Double lock is a dangerous feature.
Came here to say that. Doesn't need a long hot weekend, just a hot morning can do it (aided and abetted by a little alcoholic dehydration . ..)
I have an emergency glass-breaker hammer hammer in my glove box for this situation.
That summary reads like an article. Since I rarely RTFA, why would I want to read the summary?
That's irony/sarcasm, right? Because reading, critical thinking, and emitting reasoned discourse is what all this is about.
One of the main problems is the Web 2.0 system. Either you have a feed and get every short comment as it comes -- but that's if you want to context switch for every single one-line comment. Otherwise, you read a web page, and once you're done you're not going back, even if an interesting comment comes in a few seconds later. If you come later to the party, you get to read all the good comments, but no-one will read yours. StackExchange is a little better than that, in that people involved get a note that a comment has been made (but unless I've missed something, I can't select a topic I haven't participated in so that I get all the updates).
I am nostalgic for the days of News, where you selected a general topic, killed threads or subthreads that did not interest you, pre-selected ones that did, and expected pages of text in an article, addressing one by one each point made in the previous article, and expected people to reply. That type of discourse has migrated to mailing lists . . . wouldn't it be wonderful to combine that with social upvotes/downvotes/moderation?
"If they do otherwise y are blamed," -- y was not defined beforehand, nor was x... But Y?
"for example the sort of actions which people in a prisoner-of-war camp have been force to perform." -- Use the Force! English conjugations are so freaking difficult!
"What sort of acts, we must ask, should be we call compulsory?" -- I didn't find the sentence in which he accidentally a whole verb, but I did find where the verb ended up!
"It is by reason of erroneous reasoning of this kind that we become unjust and in general evil, or worse, slytherins" -- Aristotle . . . was he in Gryffindor or Ravenclaw?
"for who would bear fardles unless the person who does not understand these acts involuntarily?" -- and some editors should fall upon their bodkins
"But that is a topic for another day." -- This is probably the only sentence which is good enough for a fourth-grade paper . . . not good enough to get a good mark, of course.
There are pure grammar examples too. In English we use the personal subject pronouns "I, you, he/she/it, we, you, they". Note that using second person plural has replaced the second person singular "thee". That means that "You are the best" can apply to one student or a whole class.
In French, second person plural is used to be polite. That means that "Je vous ai compris" can apply to one person or to all the inhabitants of Quebec.
In Spanish and German, it is third person that is used to be polite, but in Spanish you add a word to signify that you are being (today perhaps excessively) polite, while in German you use third person plural.
What's my point? It's that when you translate "I love you" from English to French, you may easily make the assumption that you are intimate, and you arrive at "Je t'aime" instead of "Je vous aime", but when you translate "Ich liebe Sie" from German to French you should arrive at "Je vous aime", because if you are (extremely) polite in one language, then it should be the case in the other. Even worse, "Ich liebe euch" should absolutely be translated "Je vous aime", but it isn't . . . unless the correction I just suggested to Google Translate is taken into account!
Quite simply, using English as a bridge language can strip meaning that you need to make a correct translation to a third language.
Slashdot Mirror
I hope they fire a particular person from their marketing... but it's probably already done.
I was waiting for a super important call (read: production is down, four levels of management in my office, SevMax ticket open with support that costs USD 500k+/year that is going to call you back immediately promise promise), and I get this gal peddling Broadcom. I tell her sorry-I-don't-have-time-and-I'm-not-the-right-contact-for-network-equipment-in-any-case-goodbye. Thirty seconds later the phone rings again and a different girl wants to know if I am Lorens (duh) and then says Well you hung up on my colleague, that's not nice, we can hang up too - click.
Several years later that's all I can think of when I hear the name Broadcom.
At least the four levels of management in my office got some comic relief from the speakerphone, and one of them was the boss-boss of the guy who would have been the right contact for peddling network equipment (of which he probably bought maybe $1M/year)... we never did buy any Broadcom.
I saw an underage guy get blocked from a bar based on not knowing his zodiac sign. He'd borrowed the ID of a slightly older friend who looked a bit like him (but not enough). He'd learned by heart everything on the ID card, but the bouncer got suspicious and then asked him for his zodiac sign.
Maybe a generational thing indeed, this was some twenty years ago.
That should not happen... it's kind of the point for "what you have" to not be copyable.
That's what Reddit is for, after all.
Reddit is way ahead of you, making 3D sculptures from 2D photos was already on topic four days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/tales...
they often cost more than a used paper book
Hell, for me (using Kobo) they mostly cost more than a NEW paperback, delivered by Amazon!
I recently complained and was told that yeah, the price is aligned on the hardcover, and when the paperback comes out it takes them a lot of time to adjust the ebook price. If they say so... didn't buy the book.
Fretting that banks may have to pay to train software engineers to learn the tongue of their industry instead of getting to pay dirt cheap rates to retirees is very far from tugging at my heart strings.
There are banks and banks. I work at a hundred-year old bank where most of the COBOL programmers are between 30 and 45. The older ones have graduated to team lead, plain management, auditing, cost control, or other (presumably better-paying) posts. There are lots of people recruited out of school to work on COBOL (and Hadoop, and CICS, and Kafka, and OPC/TWS, and NodeJS, and if you only know one in two then you're not cross-platform).
This is good HR. There are people in HR whose job it is to plan out career paths and make sure on one hand that people don't get stuck with only outdated skills, and on the other hand that the bank doesn't get stuck with not enough people competent in a given skillset. If other banks don't have good HR, then I'm sorry for them but it's not my problem.
Yearly pay is not that great, but I have job security, I can go to the beach after work, and if you factor in that I have 56 weekdays off in a year it gets better... and bad pay is probably a consequence of having competent HR too.
It is also for variable random content. Imagine a service that returns a webpage containing the product (of the multiplication) of two numbers, followed by a list of links to ten other random number pairs you could try. It would take a 1kB page to write, but infinite space to archive *all* the results. For effect, imagine the service generates a video to show a kid how to multiply the two numbers, or drive from one place to another, or whatever use people have have now found for the Internet.
Starship Troopers - loved the twisted angle on government.
Starship Troopers... maybe nice in itself as an action/SF movie, but for the twisted angle on government you really have to read the book. I felt the political commentary was totally buffed out in the film.
This ought to backfire.
Getting spammed with inane surveys makes me unhappy.
A random AC said:
It's "rouge". Rogue is what old-fashioned women apply to their faces so they'd look healthier.
Umm, no. You got it backwards, and (for once?) the Slashdot editors do it better than the random contradicting AC.
"Rouge" (French for "red", same Latin origin as "ruby") is the cosmetic, and rogue (from Latin "rogare", "ask"/"beg", same origin as "interrogate") is a excellent word to describe the guy in this story. Just because it's on Slashdot doesn't mean it's *wrong*.
I don't care about correcting AC who will probably never see this, but some poor guy might read that and believe it...
The obvious solution to the rogue admin problem : Use Linux
Flashback to the Slashdot of last century!
A boss that gets up and follows you into the bathroom to make sure you are "doing your job" or makes passive aggressive comments to you during your lunch about how he didn't think you were in that day.... or what about a boss who works 9 hours straight (no lunch, no breaks) at his desk and anticipates you do the same without question, while the rest of the company does 8 with breaks and lunch... and micro manages 1 person in the company, which is you.
Because he doesn't trust you. I'm not saying he's right to act that way, he's wrong, but that's the way some people are. It might get better if you stand up to him. Or you might get fired or hit in the face, YMMV. Ask your colleagues if he was like that in the beginning with them and then eased off.
Only 15%? That should be *good* news for twitter! Unless it's 15% of 319 monthly active users, of course.
(Spoiler: TFA title is 48M bots, which gives 319M users).
Replying to myself... http://ask.metafilter.com/1930... dated 2 1/2 years before Schneier's post.
Schneier misinterpreted XKCD. The words must be chosen absolutely randomly.
(But I still often use Schneier's method of taking initials from a sentence, because that's the only sane way to remember a password when it's limited to eight chars, which is a problem I regularly have to deal with).
Yes. Exactly. I just spent 4 hours the other day making a table that is mixed with dynamic controls and an amalgamation of ASP.NET and jQuery pixel fucking perfect when it came to borders for the control because it had to match the look of the old classic website to 'preserve the user experience.' What if I told you the user isn't going to notice that a button is 2 pixels higher up on this page when viewed in Internet Explorer 9? I could have spent the day doing something that adds value to the product, not fiddling with tiny quirks no user is going to notice anyway.
Don't be so sure...
$user complains that she can't open her email.
$me: we did copy over all your settings and your password hasn't changed. Can you show me?
$user: I used to click there, points to blank area on Desktop where Outlook icon used to be.
$me: try moving your pointer up half an inch and clicking there (pointing to Outlook icon).
$user: uhh OK I guess, I don't think i'll be able to get used to this new system
From https://www.reddit.com/r/tales...
I mostly communicate with my coworkers over slack or mail or github, even with those literally sitting next to me, so communication isn't a problem in my case.
Remote Attackers Can Force Samsung Galaxy Devices Into Never-Ending Reboot Loop: https://it.slashdot.org/story/...
Oh, that was just the Slashdot item before this one?
So "hacker" and "hacking" have entered popular language as meaning "criminals breaking into computers", but come on, this was a DDoS, an "attack" if you wish, but not a "hack" in any sense of the term.
Same in Barcelona, I just noticed them today.
People died while being locked in cars.
Two examples are : car fallen in the water, and people sleeping in a car while owner and friend locked it. The owner came back after a long hot weeken, his friend was dead inside.
Double lock is a dangerous feature.
Came here to say that. Doesn't need a long hot weekend, just a hot morning can do it (aided and abetted by a little alcoholic dehydration . . .)
I have an emergency glass-breaker hammer hammer in my glove box for this situation.
That summary reads like an article. Since I rarely RTFA, why would I want to read the summary?
That's irony/sarcasm, right? Because reading, critical thinking, and emitting reasoned discourse is what all this is about.
One of the main problems is the Web 2.0 system. Either you have a feed and get every short comment as it comes -- but that's if you want to context switch for every single one-line comment. Otherwise, you read a web page, and once you're done you're not going back, even if an interesting comment comes in a few seconds later. If you come later to the party, you get to read all the good comments, but no-one will read yours. StackExchange is a little better than that, in that people involved get a note that a comment has been made (but unless I've missed something, I can't select a topic I haven't participated in so that I get all the updates).
I am nostalgic for the days of News, where you selected a general topic, killed threads or subthreads that did not interest you, pre-selected ones that did, and expected pages of text in an article, addressing one by one each point made in the previous article, and expected people to reply. That type of discourse has migrated to mailing lists . . . wouldn't it be wonderful to combine that with social upvotes/downvotes/moderation?
"If they do otherwise y are blamed," -- y was not defined beforehand, nor was x... But Y?
"for example the sort of actions which people in a prisoner-of-war camp have been force to perform." -- Use the Force! English conjugations are so freaking difficult!
"What sort of acts, we must ask, should be we call compulsory?" -- I didn't find the sentence in which he accidentally a whole verb, but I did find where the verb ended up!
"It is by reason of erroneous reasoning of this kind that we become unjust and in general evil, or worse, slytherins" -- Aristotle . . . was he in Gryffindor or Ravenclaw?
"for who would bear fardles unless the person who does not understand these acts involuntarily?" -- and some editors should fall upon their bodkins
"But that is a topic for another day." -- This is probably the only sentence which is good enough for a fourth-grade paper . . . not good enough to get a good mark, of course.
There are pure grammar examples too. In English we use the personal subject pronouns "I, you, he/she/it, we, you, they". Note that using second person plural has replaced the second person singular "thee". That means that "You are the best" can apply to one student or a whole class.
In French, second person plural is used to be polite. That means that "Je vous ai compris" can apply to one person or to all the inhabitants of Quebec.
In Spanish and German, it is third person that is used to be polite, but in Spanish you add a word to signify that you are being (today perhaps excessively) polite, while in German you use third person plural.
What's my point? It's that when you translate "I love you" from English to French, you may easily make the assumption that you are intimate, and you arrive at "Je t'aime" instead of "Je vous aime", but when you translate "Ich liebe Sie" from German to French you should arrive at "Je vous aime", because if you are (extremely) polite in one language, then it should be the case in the other. Even worse, "Ich liebe euch" should absolutely be translated "Je vous aime", but it isn't . . . unless the correction I just suggested to Google Translate is taken into account!
Quite simply, using English as a bridge language can strip meaning that you need to make a correct translation to a third language.