>>In my area, many of the car break-in's are targeting vehicle registrations and proofs-of-insurance...the cars themselves are generally of lesser value.
Well then people should stop keeping them in the car eh? You should do this anyway, because if the car is stolen from the mall parking lot, you don't want Joe Car Thief to know where you live. Right?
I just checked the New York State registry, and I found one sicko who lives less than 1 mile from my house. And lives about 5 blocks from the school my 2 1/2 year old daughter will eventually go to.
His crime? He raped a 7 year old girl.
Am I worried? Not particularly. I printed out the page with his stats and photo, and in the next couple of days I'll let my wife know. By the time my daughter's ready for school, this loser will probably have moved on. And in all likelyhood there will be a fresh predator in the neighborhood.
I'm happy with my hardwired LAN. Why do I need to think about wireless hardware being in my setup by default? I'm assuming that in this situation I'd have to do something to disable it so I can plug in a good old fashined NIC card. Right?
This is troubling. OK, maybe putting it on the MOBO isn't so bad, but on the CPU? Why? This is good in what way?
I've got plaintext dating back to 1985(my early programs and school papers). Now stored on CD-ROM, brought over from the original floppies.
I always thought that proprietary formats were going to be trouble, so I always kept a copy of my stuff in plaintext. Lotus 123 was exported to CSV. Wordperfect 5.1 exported to plaintext, etc.
This stuff is still usable. I recently dug back into some analysis I did in 1991 for a CICS system and pulled out an outline and some paragraphs that kind of suited the J2EE project I'm working on now. Sure some editing needs to be done, but a lot of the concepts are the same.
Sure, 17 years isn't a LONG time. But I figure that as long as I'm religious about backups and finding 'some way' to bring the text forward to new tech as time marches on, I'll be able to continue to enjoy reading and using all my old stuff.
I used to write some really stupid looking comments when I was a kid writing COBOL and PL/1.;)
I have an office job, but I can work from home whenever I like/whenever it makes sense.
I find that I really can't go for more than 3 days a week at home before I start feeling 'closed in'. When I do though, I make sure that I go out for my luch hour. It helps a little bit...taking a walk around the neighborhood...stopping by my neighbor's for a chat...taking a drive to the store for 'whatever'. Just to get out for a bit.
I also open the blinds to let natural light in, and I open the window to let outside sounds in as well(birds, wind, trains rolling by in the distance, even a passing jet). Stuff you wouldn't necessarily get to do in the office. Or, turn off the.mp3 player and turn on the local news or a music station, to get a bit of a feel for the outside world.
You could also try working outside some of the time. I've been known to sit outside on a lawn chair with my laptop and do work. I just run a cable out from my hub. (no wireless. I don't trust it...it's all cables for me)
Interestingly, I'm finding that I spend less and less time in my cube at the office, as I try to schedule meetings and conferences for the days that I'll be in the office. It keeps things interesting. And the time that I do spend in my cube is productive because I don't feel like I'm there all the time. No boredom.
>>some big financial institution wants to move some/all of their data overseas, what recourse with that host gov't will they have if someone locally steals it?
>>What's to say that company could resell (or at least reuse) some of that code when they do the same coding for my competitor when they want in on the next big thang too?
This code sharing thing happens over there.
I've been approached with a proposal like this by our offsite coordinator. I told him that I DID NOT WANT ANY ONE ELSE'S CODE IN MY SYSTEM except for open source solutions. This was backed up by emails from myself and my boss. God forbid we got caught with someone else's code.... what a fsking disaster that would be.
However, we did interview and bring on 2 of the key guys from that other project.:)
Thinking aboot this a little more, I wonder who it is that's ultimately responsible for ensuring that the codebase is pure. The US team? Or the offshore guys? This sounds kind of like the SCO issue, I know. But this is a legitimate concern, I think.
Hmm. Must talk to boss about risk.
Whos says that posting to/. has nothing to do with work? I'm gonna' set up a meeting to talk to my boss about this tomorrow.
Face time is not a 'western' concept. Since when is human interaction and body language 'western'?
Since when is grabbing a sheet of copy paper and a pencil to draw a diagram 'western'?
I don't think that these concepts keep me in a box. As a matter of fact, the teams of people that I'm working with in India and Japan agree that the lack of face time is a serious problem with the offshore model.
How to reduce the problem? We're spending more time up front making VERY precise functional requirements documents. Now that we're into tech design, this has helped. Now we're looking for precise technical specs. Trying to replace body language and "you know what I'm trying to say right?" with precise english.
And even though it's hell for my personal life (my wife is a saint), talking to these guys every day at midnight and 7:00AM keeps the communication flowing.
Personally I hate the offshore model. But I have to learn to work with it, somehow. Either the model will stay, and I'll know how to package work and manage it. Or it will fail horribly(my preference) and I'll still have better management and requirements gathering skills to continue my career.
>>I'll bet that you'll see some big name brand machines from manufacturers that are in Microsoft's pocket ship with this in a permenant "on" position, and the enthusiast motherboard market to ship with this feature easily to disable.
This would be good if it came to be. For those of us who build their own boxen, I'm sure that we'll be choosing to disable everything related to DRM and then some.
Leave the troubles to the uneducated masses I say.
>>Have college-bound kids tell you that your spouse has left you
And the worst part is that after the divorce proceedings, she'll most likely get a cut of your salary, which you've earned by doing all that reading and tinkering.
>>At least in the US, IIRC, people are by default was allowed to make their own replicas of patented devices. IIRC, one cannot sell it, that is all.
Sounds nice, but doesn't the DMCA try stop one from doing this? A guy would have to reverse engineer the patented device in order to replicate it. Maybe I'm wrong.
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Is this why the firefighters light 'backfires'?
I always thought they were just a controlled burn, to elimiate a fuel source and keep the wildfre from traking down a particular path.
wbs.
Please mod parent up.
s hdot ...
He's right. We're all 'revenue streams'.
Telco
Electric
Cable
Inet
Grocer
Fuel
Sla
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>>In my area, many of the car break-in's are targeting vehicle registrations and proofs-of-insurance...the cars themselves are generally of lesser value.
Well then people should stop keeping them in the car eh? You should do this anyway, because if the car is stolen from the mall parking lot, you don't want Joe Car Thief to know where you live. Right?
Precisely. :)
:)
I just checked the New York State registry, and I found one sicko who lives less than 1 mile from my house. And lives about 5 blocks from the school my 2 1/2 year old daughter will eventually go to.
His crime? He raped a 7 year old girl.
Am I worried? Not particularly. I printed out the page with his stats and photo, and in the next couple of days I'll let my wife know. By the time my daughter's ready for school, this loser will probably have moved on. And in all likelyhood there will be a fresh predator in the neighborhood.
Daddy will be monitoring the situation.
wbs.
Leonardo DaVinci didn't have electricity. Yet he was able to do a great deal of scientific work.
Imagine if a man of that intellect and motivation were to have access to the computational resources we have today. He really would change the world.
Either that, or he'd waste his days using his computational device to download pr0n.
wbs.
Good deal. So you miss out on your dream house because Joe Sicko lives 2 blocks away. So someone else buys it, and Joe Sicko moves out 6 months later.
Smart move. Really.
wbs.
I don't get it.
I'm happy with my hardwired LAN. Why do I need to think about wireless hardware being in my setup by default? I'm assuming that in this situation I'd have to do something to disable it so I can plug in a good old fashined NIC card. Right?
This is troubling. OK, maybe putting it on the MOBO isn't so bad, but on the CPU? Why? This is good in what way?
wbs.
I've got plaintext dating back to 1985(my early programs and school papers). Now stored on CD-ROM, brought over from the original floppies.
;)
I always thought that proprietary formats were going to be trouble, so I always kept a copy of my stuff in plaintext. Lotus 123 was exported to CSV. Wordperfect 5.1 exported to plaintext, etc.
This stuff is still usable. I recently dug back into some analysis I did in 1991 for a CICS system and pulled out an outline and some paragraphs that kind of suited the J2EE project I'm working on now. Sure some editing needs to be done, but a lot of the concepts are the same.
Sure, 17 years isn't a LONG time. But I figure that as long as I'm religious about backups and finding 'some way' to bring the text forward to new tech as time marches on, I'll be able to continue to enjoy reading and using all my old stuff.
I used to write some really stupid looking comments when I was a kid writing COBOL and PL/1.
wbs.
I have an office job, but I can work from home whenever I like/whenever it makes sense.
.mp3 player and turn on the local news or a music station, to get a bit of a feel for the outside world.
I find that I really can't go for more than 3 days a week at home before I start feeling 'closed in'. When I do though, I make sure that I go out for my luch hour. It helps a little bit...taking a walk around the neighborhood...stopping by my neighbor's for a chat...taking a drive to the store for 'whatever'. Just to get out for a bit.
I also open the blinds to let natural light in, and I open the window to let outside sounds in as well(birds, wind, trains rolling by in the distance, even a passing jet). Stuff you wouldn't necessarily get to do in the office. Or, turn off the
You could also try working outside some of the time. I've been known to sit outside on a lawn chair with my laptop and do work. I just run a cable out from my hub. (no wireless. I don't trust it...it's all cables for me)
Interestingly, I'm finding that I spend less and less time in my cube at the office, as I try to schedule meetings and conferences for the days that I'll be in the office. It keeps things interesting. And the time that I do spend in my cube is productive because I don't feel like I'm there all the time. No boredom.
Just some thoughts.
p/g
Why'd you AC for this?
At least I had the balls to post my comments using my member name. You can't even stand behind your own words.
wbs.
>>You won't like being drafted.
Or laid off.
wbs.
A hook into Phoenix's DRM BIOS on the x86 ports ?
Just kidding.
wbs.
>>I've said it once, and I'll say it again. Who are you, reviewer?
He's some dude who works for Land's End.
wbs.
>>some big financial institution wants to move some/all of their data overseas, what recourse with that host gov't will they have if someone locally steals it?
Or what if Pakistan nukes Mumbai?
wbs.
>>What's to say that company could resell (or at least reuse) some of that code when they do the same coding for my competitor when they want in on the next big thang too?
:)
/. has nothing to do with work? I'm gonna' set up a meeting to talk to my boss about this tomorrow.
This code sharing thing happens over there.
I've been approached with a proposal like this by our offsite coordinator. I told him that I DID NOT WANT ANY ONE ELSE'S CODE IN MY SYSTEM except for open source solutions. This was backed up by emails from myself and my boss. God forbid we got caught with someone else's code.... what a fsking disaster that would be.
However, we did interview and bring on 2 of the key guys from that other project.
Thinking aboot this a little more, I wonder who it is that's ultimately responsible for ensuring that the codebase is pure. The US team? Or the offshore guys? This sounds kind of like the SCO issue, I know. But this is a legitimate concern, I think.
Hmm. Must talk to boss about risk.
Whos says that posting to
wbs.
p/g
>> 'face time' can be a Western concept.
Face time is not a 'western' concept. Since when is human interaction and body language 'western'?
Since when is grabbing a sheet of copy paper and a pencil to draw a diagram 'western'?
I don't think that these concepts keep me in a box. As a matter of fact, the teams of people that I'm working with in India and Japan agree that the lack of face time is a serious problem with the offshore model.
How to reduce the problem? We're spending more time up front making VERY precise functional requirements documents. Now that we're into tech design, this has helped. Now we're looking for precise technical specs. Trying to replace body language and "you know what I'm trying to say right?" with precise english.
And even though it's hell for my personal life (my wife is a saint), talking to these guys every day at midnight and 7:00AM keeps the communication flowing.
Personally I hate the offshore model. But I have to learn to work with it, somehow. Either the model will stay, and I'll know how to package work and manage it. Or it will fail horribly(my preference) and I'll still have better management and requirements gathering skills to continue my career.
wbs.
>>I'll bet that you'll see some big name brand machines from manufacturers that are in Microsoft's pocket ship with this in a permenant "on" position, and the enthusiast motherboard market to ship with this feature easily to disable.
This would be good if it came to be. For those of us who build their own boxen, I'm sure that we'll be choosing to disable everything related to DRM and then some.
Leave the troubles to the uneducated masses I say.
wbs.
I wish I had mod points today. I'd give you at least a +1 interesting.
:)
Nice story. Wish I was there.
And yeah, Paramount is f*n clueless.
wbs.
>>Have college-bound kids tell you that your spouse has left you
And the worst part is that after the divorce proceedings, she'll most likely get a cut of your salary, which you've earned by doing all that reading and tinkering.
wbs.
>>At least in the US, IIRC, people are by default was allowed to make their own replicas of patented devices. IIRC, one cannot sell it, that is all.
Sounds nice, but doesn't the DMCA try stop one from doing this? A guy would have to reverse engineer the patented device in order to replicate it. Maybe I'm wrong.
wbs.
>>This isn't Star Trek where they suddenly forgot all about nuclear weapons once they got a phaser up and running.
I thought that nukes were obsoleted by the photon torpedo. I rememeber reading that somewhere.
wbs.
>>Time to order all those new highly polished chrome tanks...
Which will make easy targets for the jets zipping by overhead with conventional bombs.
wbs.
Yeah, the first thing that pops into my head is a Styx reference...
:)
Sorry, it was a rough day.
wbs.
I kind of think that Gore would be more of a chick magnet than shrub.
So WTF happened?
wbs.
>>What about Kilroy?
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