Given current business practices in the US, the rational thing to do is train your replacements incorrectly, but in such a way as their lack of training is only noticeable after you are fired, or long enough after the training has taken place that it can't be tracked down to your specific instruction.
When the geek turns to thoughts felonies he contrives schemes so finely calibrated that they cannot possibly work.
Because Microsoft and Facebook want and abundant (and therefore cheap & expendable) workforce.
The geek is economically and socially illiterate.
What Microsoft and Facebook needs are customers who feel financially secure, have a generous amount of disposable income, and the more of them, the better.
Microsoft typically pays about 15% above market. The lowliest entry level software engineer at Microsoft earns about $80,000/yr. Average Salary for Microsoft Corp Employees
It's a little amazing to me than a lowly Slashdot poster outwitted the entire engineering division at Amazon...
Instead of answering the question, you are just talking around it.
It wouldn't be the first time that the geek has relied on sarcasm as a substitute for brain-work.
The courier drone will be perfectly safe so long as it serves only the middle class suburbs and grander estate homes --- quiet side streets, fenced in back yards, no strangers about.
I can't speak for OSX. But it is hard to take seriously a post that ignores the accessibility tools that have been baked into the Windows OS from the beginning, expanded and improved over the years.
Unlike proprietary alternatives...Linux distros with the Gnome desktop...includes accessibility tools out of the box, such as:
Screen reader A text-to-speech system to read what's on the screen Magnifier Helps users with visual impairments who need larger text and images High-contrast mode Helps users who have trouble seeing text unless contrast is corrected, such as white text on a black background, or vice versa Mouse keys Controls the mouse using the number pad Sticky keys Helps users who have trouble pressing multiple keys at once, and users who have use of only one hand
Bounce keys To ignore rapidly pressed keys or if a key is accidentally held down On screen keyboard Helps users who cannot type at all, but who can use a mouse
Visual alerts Replace system sounds with visual cues
What I do know is that Bill Gates was a completely unknown school kid until he was brought to IBM's attention by his mother.
1975
MITS Altair BASIC
Revenues $16,000
1976
Microsoft refines and enhances BASIC to sell to other customers including General Electric, NCR, and Citibank.
1977
Microsoft FORTRAN
1978
Applesoft BASIC, Microsoft COLBOL-80
1979
Microsoft 8080 BASIC is the first microprocessor product to win the ICP Million Dollar Award. Traditionally dominated by software for mainframe computers, this recognition is indicative of the growth and acceptance of the PC industry.
MBASIC for the 8086
1980
Microsoft Z-80 SoftCard. CP/M plug-n card for the Apple II.
Microsoft 16 bit XENIX OS (licensed from AT&T) and a full suite of 16 bit *NIX programming languages.
Microsoft PASCAL
Revenues $7,520,000. ($21,273,620, adjusted for inflation) Microsoft Timeline
CP/M-86 was in development hell.
Gates promised delivery of a marketable 16 bit CP/M clone in time for the scheduled launch of the IBM PC --- at an unprecedented mass market price of $50 retail list in return for a non-exclusive license.
80% off the proposed list price for CP/M-86.
The entire point of the business, btw, was to isolate the IBM development team from the IBM PC hierarchy.
I very much doubt the PC development team ever gave the slightest thought to Gate's mother. They were looking for lean and hungry outsiders, ready and willing to move.
But Billl Gates and Microsoft were not the unknowns that myth made them, even then.
It's well-documented that Billy Gates' success is largely due to having rich and well-connected parents.
Gates was selling microcomputer BASIC to the Fortune 500 in 1975. MBASIC was the first product for the micro to reach the top tier in software sales for all computer platforms.
It took Microsoft less than five years to develop a full suite of mature and highly regarded programming languages for CP/M. The gold standard for operating systems in the eight-bit era.
In the late seventies, Microsoft was superbly positioned for a move into operating systems and had licensed UNIX from AT&T.
In the right hands, 16 bit CP/M or a serviceable 16 bit CP/M clone could be a right profitable little goldmine. But Gates had something much bigger in mind when Digital Research fumbled the ball:
Non-exclusive licensing at a mass market price of $50 retail list. The MS-DOS PC was a viable commercial product before the cloning of the IBM PC BIOS.
One weekend, I came home and he showed me the radio-fax kit he'd bought. Say what??? It was a receiver that plugged into the headphone jack of a shortwave radio on one side and the serial port of the computer on the other side. The software would record and decode faxes of weather maps that were broadcast over shortwave then print them on the DeskJet 500c. But, when this kind of thing became widely available on the internet, he wouldn't switch until either they stopped broadcasting or the software didn't survive an OS upgrade. I forget which.
The geek needs to take a closer look at analog systems and HF radio.
Rafiofax is over ninety years old and still very much alive. NOAA RADIOFAX If you think terrestrial satellite data services are expensive and limited try pricing off-shore marine.
NIce to see Apple and IBM profit further from the nanny state.
The geek seems to moving to the farthest right of the political spectrum. He is, after all, the creator of the "SJW" social justice warrior meme which the right has found so useful.
The postman, the doctor, the lineman, the visiting nurse. the preacher and the fireman, share a special place in American folklore and legend.
Loneliness and isolation, the need for human contact and support, is something a rural community, the elderly, the ill and the homebound come to understand profoundly.
"...the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped. " ~ Last Speech of Hubert H. Humphrey
Reminds me of a US naval ship being towed to shore because Windows NT crashed.
In 1997, the ship in question was a test bed for the introduction of COTS technologies at sea. The Wikipedia essay on the Aegis Cruiser "Yorktown" kind of slides over the fact that the ship remained in active service until 2004 with no other significant Windows-related incidents. USS Yorktown (CG-48)
SJW's are usually trust fund babies and well-off morons that got bored with collecting tangible things and began collecting stories of oppression as bling. They're charlatans and ideologues, profit mongers and zealots.
The geek has a future in the Kansas state Senate.
Well as I'm sure you've figured out, ''sjw'' stands for social justice warrior. Back when I and a few others started this tumblr several years ago, ''sjw'' seemed, to us, to be more of a criticism on people who used social justice to further their own bigoted ends, push already marginalized people out of their own spaces, and dominate discussions with bigoted rhetoric.
In the years since this blog died out,''sjw'' came to stand for anyone who supports social justice, a favorite go-to insult for white male nerds/libertarians/redditors. This blog is now followed by people with that attitude, and still gets asks of that nature. Hence the (partial) reason why I no longer update, even though I've somewhat returned to tumblr.
"Social Justice Warrior" has no visibility in Google Trends before 2013 --- and in the pejorative sense has never caught on outside the United States. Thank god. social justice warrior
These were, of course, her own cat pictures. It is sometimes the most ordinary things in our lives that speak the loudest, if you are willing to listen.
Also, stop the nonsense about duress-passwords. They do not work.
There is a reason why they call the drug courier a mule and it isn't because he is the brains of the outfit.
The right question to ask --- the first question to ask ---- is not where and how to hide the insanely dangerous files you are carrying about on your person but why you are doing anything so stupid in the first place?
You cannot demand keys for something you don't know of.
The cop or the border guard spends his entire working life learning how to read faces, body language, as if his life depended on it, which, of course, it often does.
Much like in the old dialup days. We paid for the Phone Line, then we paid for the ISP.
The good old days.
In the outer ring of suburbs where we lived, the only realistic and affordable Internet solution before broadband cable was dialup AOL --- combined with a unlimited regional calling plan.
Jokes aside, most of us live in areas that are not prone to hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, or Godzilla.
I have to ask where you found an Eden untouched by man-made or natural disasters. Where there is drought there is fire. In a warming world, storms may be fewer but stronger and farther reaching.
The radio you have in hand is more useful than the one you shoved into the glove compartment last winter with batteries now deader than dead.
Who the hell works on the 99% of open source software that isn't popular, and why do they care? Because they do.
Show me some proof that anyone cares enough to drive GNU/Hurd to a 1.0 release.
Richard Stallman founded the GNU project in September 1983 with an aim to create a free GNU operating system. Initially the components required for kernel and development were written: editors, shell, compiler and all the others. By 1989, GPL came into being and the only major component missing was the kernel.
In 2010, after twenty years under development, Stallman said that he was ''not very optimistic about the GNU Hurd. It makes some progress, but to be really superior it would require solving a lot of deep problems'', but added that ''finishing it is not crucial'' for the GNU system because a free kernel already existed (Linux), and completing Hurd would not address the main remaining problem for a free operating system: device support.
Microsoft, on the other hand, saw an opportunity and happily licensed their code to all comers.
The MS-DOS PC was a commercially viable platform before the cloning of the IBM PC BIOS.
Microsoft entered the 16 bit market with a full suite of programming languages that made the transition from the eight bit world of CP/M remarkably fast and painless. It's a part of a part of the story the geek tends to forget.
Different Headline: "Seventy year old manuscript written by mathematician who died 60 years ago is still under copyright in many countries."
The owner of the manuscript is under no obligation to publish it. No obligation to display it.
The expiration of copyright does nothing to guarantee access to primary sources, does nothing to guarantee funding for the preservation of primary sources.
It shouldn't even be a criminal charge. It may be a crime by the letter of the law, but c'mon, this couldn't be handled in-house?!
Green had previously received a three-day suspension for accessing the system inappropriately.
Green was released on Wednesday from Land O'Lakes Detention Center into the custody of his mother. He'll likely be granted pretrial intervention by a judge, sheriff's detective Anthony Bossone said.
Green also received a 10-day school suspension. It's unclear if he'll return to Paul R. Smith to complete the school year after the suspension.
Individuals who successfully complete a Pretrial Intervention Program will have their criminal charges dismissed.
Pretrial Intervention is for first offenders charged with third degree misdemeanors or felonies. Violate your PTI and you will be looking at a very pissed off judge and prosecutor.
Especially because he put GAY GUYS on the computer, the horrors. If he had changed the wallpaper to a cat picture this would not have happened I guarantee it.
Don't be an idiot.
Green said that on the morning in question, he accessed the computer that stored the FCAT files and, realizing that computer didn't have a camera, found another.
''So I logged out of that computer and logged into a different one and I logged into a teacher's computer who I didn't like and tried putting inappropriate pictures onto his computer to annoy him,'' Green said.
The teacher he was targeting was out that day. Instead, the substitute teacher saw the picture and reported it to the school's administration.
If SpaceX actually lands on the barge and flies the first stage to orbit again it's a really big deal, because it radically changes the economics of getting to space.
Only if it can be done reliably and economically with meaningful payloads --- and that has yet to be proven.
Slashdot Mirror
It seems odd to hear the geek complain when the big corporation spends substantial sums on global infrastructure.
Given current business practices in the US, the rational thing to do is train your replacements incorrectly, but in such a way as their lack of training is only noticeable after you are fired, or long enough after the training has taken place that it can't be tracked down to your specific instruction.
When the geek turns to thoughts felonies he contrives schemes so finely calibrated that they cannot possibly work.
Because Microsoft and Facebook want and abundant (and therefore cheap & expendable) workforce.
The geek is economically and socially illiterate.
What Microsoft and Facebook needs are customers who feel financially secure, have a generous amount of disposable income, and the more of them, the better.
Microsoft typically pays about 15% above market. The lowliest entry level software engineer at Microsoft earns about $80,000/yr. Average Salary for Microsoft Corp Employees
The median household income in the US is $52,000.
It's a little amazing to me than a lowly Slashdot poster outwitted the entire engineering division at Amazon...
Instead of answering the question, you are just talking around it.
It wouldn't be the first time that the geek has relied on sarcasm as a substitute for brain-work.
The courier drone will be perfectly safe so long as it serves only the middle class suburbs and grander estate homes --- quiet side streets, fenced in back yards, no strangers about.
Unlike proprietary alternatives...Linux distros with the Gnome desktop...includes accessibility tools out of the box, such as:
Screen reader A text-to-speech system to read what's on the screen
Magnifier Helps users with visual impairments who need larger text and images
High-contrast mode Helps users who have trouble seeing text unless contrast is corrected, such as white text on a black background, or vice versa
Mouse keys Controls the mouse using the number pad
Sticky keys Helps users who have trouble pressing multiple keys at once, and users who have use of only one hand
Bounce keys To ignore rapidly pressed keys or if a key is accidentally held down
On screen keyboard Helps users who cannot type at all, but who can use a mouse Visual alerts Replace system sounds with visual cues
Accessibility in Linux is good (but could be much better)
Compare:
While this article is aimed at Windows 95 much of the information on Accessibility Options also applies to Windows 3.x and Windows 98.
Making Windows 95 Accessible
What I do know is that Bill Gates was a completely unknown school kid until he was brought to IBM's attention by his mother.
1975
MITS Altair BASIC
Revenues $16,000
1976
Microsoft refines and enhances BASIC to sell to other customers including General Electric, NCR, and Citibank.
1977
Microsoft FORTRAN
1978
Applesoft BASIC, Microsoft COLBOL-80
1979
Microsoft 8080 BASIC is the first microprocessor product to win the ICP Million Dollar Award. Traditionally dominated by software for mainframe computers, this recognition is indicative of the growth and acceptance of the PC industry.
MBASIC for the 8086
1980
Microsoft Z-80 SoftCard. CP/M plug-n card for the Apple II.
Microsoft 16 bit XENIX OS (licensed from AT&T) and a full suite of 16 bit *NIX programming languages.
Microsoft PASCAL
Revenues $7,520,000. ($21,273,620, adjusted for inflation) Microsoft Timeline
CP/M-86 was in development hell.
Gates promised delivery of a marketable 16 bit CP/M clone in time for the scheduled launch of the IBM PC --- at an unprecedented mass market price of $50 retail list in return for a non-exclusive license.
80% off the proposed list price for CP/M-86.
The entire point of the business, btw, was to isolate the IBM development team from the IBM PC hierarchy.
I very much doubt the PC development team ever gave the slightest thought to Gate's mother. They were looking for lean and hungry outsiders, ready and willing to move.
But Billl Gates and Microsoft were not the unknowns that myth made them, even then.
It's well-documented that Billy Gates' success is largely due to having rich and well-connected parents.
Gates was selling microcomputer BASIC to the Fortune 500 in 1975. MBASIC was the first product for the micro to reach the top tier in software sales for all computer platforms.
It took Microsoft less than five years to develop a full suite of mature and highly regarded programming languages for CP/M. The gold standard for operating systems in the eight-bit era.
In the late seventies, Microsoft was superbly positioned for a move into operating systems and had licensed UNIX from AT&T.
In the right hands, 16 bit CP/M or a serviceable 16 bit CP/M clone could be a right profitable little goldmine. But Gates had something much bigger in mind when Digital Research fumbled the ball:
Non-exclusive licensing at a mass market price of $50 retail list. The MS-DOS PC was a viable commercial product before the cloning of the IBM PC BIOS.
One weekend, I came home and he showed me the radio-fax kit he'd bought. Say what??? It was a receiver that plugged into the headphone jack of a shortwave radio on one side and the serial port of the computer on the other side. The software would record and decode faxes of weather maps that were broadcast over shortwave then print them on the DeskJet 500c. But, when this kind of thing became widely available on the internet, he wouldn't switch until either they stopped broadcasting or the software didn't survive an OS upgrade. I forget which.
The geek needs to take a closer look at analog systems and HF radio.
Rafiofax is over ninety years old and still very much alive. NOAA RADIOFAX If you think terrestrial satellite data services are expensive and limited try pricing off-shore marine.
WR-G33EM Marine Receiver
NIce to see Apple and IBM profit further from the nanny state.
The geek seems to moving to the farthest right of the political spectrum. He is, after all, the creator of the "SJW" social justice warrior meme which the right has found so useful.
The postman, the doctor, the lineman, the visiting nurse. the preacher and the fireman, share a special place in American folklore and legend.
Loneliness and isolation, the need for human contact and support, is something a rural community, the elderly, the ill and the homebound come to understand profoundly.
"...the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped. " ~ Last Speech of Hubert H. Humphrey
Reminds me of a US naval ship being towed to shore because Windows NT crashed.
In 1997, the ship in question was a test bed for the introduction of COTS technologies at sea. The Wikipedia essay on the Aegis Cruiser "Yorktown" kind of slides over the fact that the ship remained in active service until 2004 with no other significant Windows-related incidents. USS Yorktown (CG-48)
Why bother hacking into a single robot when comm links are fragile and you can bring everything down?
SJW's are usually trust fund babies and well-off morons that got bored with collecting tangible things and began collecting stories of oppression as bling. They're charlatans and ideologues, profit mongers and zealots.
The geek has a future in the Kansas state Senate.
Well as I'm sure you've figured out, ''sjw'' stands for social justice warrior. Back when I and a few others started this tumblr several years ago, ''sjw'' seemed, to us, to be more of a criticism on people who used social justice to further their own bigoted ends, push already marginalized people out of their own spaces, and dominate discussions with bigoted rhetoric.
In the years since this blog died out,''sjw'' came to stand for anyone who supports social justice, a favorite go-to insult for white male nerds/libertarians/redditors. This blog is now followed by people with that attitude, and still gets asks of that nature. Hence the (partial) reason why I no longer update, even though I've somewhat returned to tumblr.
Fuck No Tumbler SJW
"Social Justice Warrior" has no visibility in Google Trends before 2013 --- and in the pejorative sense has never caught on outside the United States. Thank god. social justice warrior
But then I saw the cat pictures.
These were, of course, her own cat pictures. It is sometimes the most ordinary things in our lives that speak the loudest, if you are willing to listen.
Also, stop the nonsense about duress-passwords. They do not work.
There is a reason why they call the drug courier a mule and it isn't because he is the brains of the outfit.
The right question to ask --- the first question to ask ---- is not where and how to hide the insanely dangerous files you are carrying about on your person but why you are doing anything so stupid in the first place?
You cannot demand keys for something you don't know of.
The cop or the border guard spends his entire working life learning how to read faces, body language, as if his life depended on it, which, of course, it often does.
It is not the machine that betrays you. It's you.
Much like in the old dialup days. We paid for the Phone Line, then we paid for the ISP.
The good old days.
In the outer ring of suburbs where we lived, the only realistic and affordable Internet solution before broadband cable was dialup AOL --- combined with a unlimited regional calling plan.
Not much has changed in all the years since.
The Millennial in particular seems to have a short attention span and perhaps more a taste for political theater than effective political action.
Apparently something related to the OS choices makes it worth Intel's while to develop separate models.
The answer in one word: Sales.
Jokes aside, most of us live in areas that are not prone to hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, or Godzilla.
I have to ask where you found an Eden untouched by man-made or natural disasters. Where there is drought there is fire. In a warming world, storms may be fewer but stronger and farther reaching.
The radio you have in hand is more useful than the one you shoved into the glove compartment last winter with batteries now deader than dead.
Who the hell works on the 99% of open source software that isn't popular, and why do they care? Because they do.
Show me some proof that anyone cares enough to drive GNU/Hurd to a 1.0 release.
Richard Stallman founded the GNU project in September 1983 with an aim to create a free GNU operating system. Initially the components required for kernel and development were written: editors, shell, compiler and all the others. By 1989, GPL came into being and the only major component missing was the kernel.
In 2010, after twenty years under development, Stallman said that he was ''not very optimistic about the GNU Hurd. It makes some progress, but to be really superior it would require solving a lot of deep problems'', but added that ''finishing it is not crucial'' for the GNU system because a free kernel already existed (Linux), and completing Hurd would not address the main remaining problem for a free operating system: device support.
GNU Hurd
Microsoft, on the other hand, saw an opportunity and happily licensed their code to all comers.
The MS-DOS PC was a commercially viable platform before the cloning of the IBM PC BIOS.
Microsoft entered the 16 bit market with a full suite of programming languages that made the transition from the eight bit world of CP/M remarkably fast and painless. It's a part of a part of the story the geek tends to forget.
Different Headline: "Seventy year old manuscript written by mathematician who died 60 years ago is still under copyright in many countries."
The owner of the manuscript is under no obligation to publish it. No obligation to display it.
The expiration of copyright does nothing to guarantee access to primary sources, does nothing to guarantee funding for the preservation of primary sources.
It shouldn't even be a criminal charge. It may be a crime by the letter of the law, but c'mon, this couldn't be handled in-house?!
Green had previously received a three-day suspension for accessing the system inappropriately.
Green was released on Wednesday from Land O'Lakes Detention Center into the custody of his mother. He'll likely be granted pretrial intervention by a judge, sheriff's detective Anthony Bossone said.
Green also received a 10-day school suspension. It's unclear if he'll return to Paul R. Smith to complete the school year after the suspension.
Middle school student charged with cybercrime in Holiday
Individuals who successfully complete a Pretrial Intervention Program will have their criminal charges dismissed.
Pretrial Intervention is for first offenders charged with third degree misdemeanors or felonies. Violate your PTI and you will be looking at a very pissed off judge and prosecutor.
Understanding Florida's Pre-Trial Intervention Program
Especially because he put GAY GUYS on the computer, the horrors. If he had changed the wallpaper to a cat picture this would not have happened I guarantee it.
Don't be an idiot.
Green said that on the morning in question, he accessed the computer that stored the FCAT files and, realizing that computer didn't have a camera, found another.
''So I logged out of that computer and logged into a different one and I logged into a teacher's computer who I didn't like and tried putting inappropriate pictures onto his computer to annoy him,'' Green said.
The teacher he was targeting was out that day. Instead, the substitute teacher saw the picture and reported it to the school's administration.
Middle school student charged with cybercrime in Holiday
If SpaceX actually lands on the barge and flies the first stage to orbit again it's a really big deal, because it radically changes the economics of getting to space.
Only if it can be done reliably and economically with meaningful payloads --- and that has yet to be proven.