I don't see a direct connection between those 10 people and you.
The direct connection was that we were all on the same team. The company felt they could run the project with just me and one other guy. My feelings were that if the company felt like they could run it with just the other guy then I would have gotten a zero notice eviction as well. So I felt justified in giving them exactly the same amount of notice as they would have given me. However, they let me know that I was unprofessional and took away my unused vacation days as punishment.
If a router is handing out IPs, how is that stealing?
Well, considering that routers come from the factory configured to allow anyone access, and that changing this is not trivial to the average non-technical human being, I think that something needs to be done. We need to somehow make sure that people who intend to offer free wireless are, and the people who don't wish to aren't made to do so by default. I don't think it should be illegal to connect to an open wireless AP, but I also think that you should have to go out of your way to make your wireless open. Yes, this flies in the face of the Microsoft philosophy (sell software to everyman, but assume that everyone that buys one is an IT professional capable of locking it down because by default it's wide open.)
It's kind of like buying a fancy new color billboard for your gas station that comes with a complex programming interface and by default it says "free gas".
I know many places around where I live where you can be on a road with a speed limit of say 45 or 50, turn onto another road, and not see a speed limit sign for several miles. If I was on one of those roads and got a ticket because I had to guess at the speed limit due to a lack of signs, you'd better believe I'd be suing.
Most communities have a "default" speed limit, which you are supposed to go if there is no posted speed limit. Unfortunately, there is no way to know this default speed limit for every community that you could be driving through. Also unfortunately, ignorance is no excuse, so just to be safe, you should be sure to download and read the thousands of pages local regulations of each community that you will ever drive through. If they are not available online, you should visit the city hall, without driving, because you don't know the rules yet.
Which makes me wonder --- how, exactly, do they define child porn?
In my state child porn is pictures or video of person under the age of 18 involved in sexual acts or just unclothed. Also, anyone that looks like they are under the age of 18 according to the police inspector whether or not they actually are. Also , anyone that is obviously over the age of 18 but is dressed up to look like someone under the age of 18, also cartoon renderings of imaginary people who if they were not imaginary would be under the age of 18 or look like they would be in the opinion of the police investigator.
Of course the drug lab should be illegal but if it were compared to child porn, then the property owner would have been thrown in jail, while the guy hosting the drug lab without permission on the property would just move on to another property with a non-observant owner. In the computer industry, it is all too easy to find people who are not experts at securing their machines against people who are experts at breaking in to machines.
I say castrate the pedophiles
Just to clarify, do you mean the dictionary definition of pedophile, ie, an adult that likes to molest children, or the legal definition of pedophile, ie, someone who is 18 or greater and is unfortunate enough that their sexual partner is only 18 minus iota and/or someone who likes their 30 year old wife to wear pigtails and short skirts.
Oh, and you can quit without notice too.
But if you quit without notice, that is "unprofessional" and may get you blacklisted locally. However, if they fire you without notice, well that's just business. My last company fired 10 people with only an e-mail notice, and they didn't get the notice because the company locked their e-mail accounts. Then I quit with no notice and they acted like I was some kind of backstabber and to punish me, they refused to pay me my unused vacation time.
NEXRAD and CASA are not about long range predictions, and by long range I'm talking more than a few hours. These systems are designed to determine what is going on right now and what it means for nearby communities over the next short period of time.
Here in Oklahoma we have Gary England. He actually had a cameo on Twister. One of the local radio stations has a tribute to him sung to the tune of the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah. There's even a drinking game meant to go along with his live coverage during tornadoes.
You can accomplish this with 200 hours of real flight time using the 50-100.
That is true, but I figured if an hour of time is good enough for the FAA, then it is good enough to count to assuage the fears of the travelers. Now to add to the fears of the travelers, in some circumstances, you can count Microsoft Flight Simulator X (and maybe 9 I can't remember now) as simulator time. I have literally thousands of hours of MS Flightsim time, but less than a hundred of left seat time.
Median cost of a home in Cupertino: $649,000.
Median mortgage payment: $2,145
Awesome! I guess I can afford a $649k house in California. Here in Oklahoma, I can only get about a $250k house for that mortgage payment.
But hey, the brightside of paying so little is you get pilots with 200 hours flying you around! Happy flying!
And how is this possible when the minimum requirements for a commercial Pilot's license is 250 hours? Also, not even a regional will take you with only 250 hours.
I agree with you. For someone with a few years of experience in IT, $89k is a slap in the face anywhere in the country. Now mind you, I don't make $89k, but then I am being paid about 2/3 of what other people with my same job duties according to salary.com. Naturally, I am doing whatever I can to change this anomaly.
Of course, it sounds prissy to whine about $89k when the average household income is just under $50k according to wikipedia (and frankly I thought it was a lot lower than that). But whether you are an underpaid janitor or an underpaid CEO, I figure either way you have a legitimate complaint.
I've never in my 39 years (23 on the road) been on the receiving end of a road rage attack.
I've never been the subject of a road rage attack, but I have been the subject of road rage. I've been driving about 22 years, and I always try to be courteous. Sure, I get upset when people drive slow in the fast lane. But so as not to be a hypocrite, no matter how fast I am going, I always pull back in to the right lane unless I am about to pass someone again in the next 10 seconds.
One day, coming home from work, as I was getting off on my exit, this guy got right up on my bumper and laid on his horn continuously while flipping me the finger. He kept doing this until we got up to the stoplight for the exit ramp and he ended up right behind me. Since he was boxed in by myself and other cars, his true cowardly nature kicked in and he stopped honking and flipping me off. When the light turned green, and I pulled away, he got back on the horn and flipping me off again. I still to this day have no clue what he could possibly have been upset about. I had not so much as changed lanes in the two or three minutes before him showing up behind me honking and flipping me off.
Horn broken, watch for finger
Reading this pisses me off. Giving someone the finger means you're pissed at them. Using your horn does not mean you are pissed at them. The horn is for getting someone's attention when they don't see you or don't notice the light changed. It is not to be used to indicate that someone just did something to make you angry, to express lust for a cute girl on the sidewalk, or to try to get your carpool partner out of his house at 4 AM.
That's somnething for those of you who are childless who crow about "Darwin at work" when someone dies doing something stupid.
Natural selection is still at work when a stupid person who has already reproduced gets themselves killed. The persons offspring is now less likely to survive to reproductive age. This was much more true 1000 years ago, and is much more true in third world countries. But it is still a factor.
AND, if they bothered to RTFM, they could opt-out of "partner spam" 99% of the time by checking their e-mail preferences page on the site they agreed to receive the original crap from.
I don't think it is as high as 99%. Maybe 50% of even legitimate companies actually honor the "do not send me crap" box. X10.com sends me crap even though I ticked the box. Staples.com sends me crap even though I ticked the box. Tickets.com, don't get me started. Of course, now I don't buy stuff from these lying bastards anymore.
Either do the job or quit.
That's kind of harsh. How about just configure the mail server to quietly dump any e-mails with more than say, 20 recipients. Of course, if your company has any legitimate mailing lists, those would be excepted. Your boss can spam away and will generate 0 positive leads, which is very close to the.0001 positive leads he would have gotten. And the upside is that you will also get 0 hate mails, 0 blocked domains, 0 drops from your ISP and 0 lawsuits, all of which numbers would be slightly higher if the spam went out the door.
In a previous company, we received the "please keep all your important data in your user folder on the shared drive so that it can be backed up." email. The problem? Well, severalfold. For one thing, the job was 80% travel, and getting internet access was never a guarantee. For another, you couldn't get to the shared drive remotely, even via VPN. And for a third, the shared drive had a whopping 60 GB of space, for 300 users, each with at least a 40GB drive on their machine.
I NEVER leave people voicemail anymore and I rarely receive it. Voicemail is a stupid waste of time IMO.
Must be a generational thing. I know the new generation HATES voicemail. They will call you eight times in a ten minute period if you don't answer the phone and they NEVER leave a voicemail. In my opinion, this is just rude. If I see that I have calls on my phone, but no messages, then I just figure if it's not important enough to leave a message then it is not important.
Contrast this with the new generation that will immediately call back anybody that calls their phone even if they don't leave a message and even if they don't recognize the number. Heck I see people call back only to find it was a wrong number. Why would you call everybody back like that? If it was important they would have left a message.
It sounds like the problem you are describing is not one with your knowledge, but your personal frustration with your bosses who don't trust you at your word that employing technology X,Y, or Z will reap benefits.
I have the opposite problem. Using Skype at work has become a requirement. It used to be that everyone used Trillian, and most of my non-work acquaintances use Trillian, but everyone internally has switched to Skype and I was the last holdout, and was basically threatened that I had to install it. Luckily I haven't been threatened that I have to use it. I find IM to be disruptive. It is rarely useful in finding quick information in a support environment because people usually ignore their IMs for a couple of minutes before looking at it. Instead, it is a nuisance that causes me to have to switch gears from what I am doing in order to respond to someone who can't be bothered to come down to the office and hash something out in 30 seconds instead of wasting time going back and forth in IM for 30 minutes. Two way audible conversation is so much more useful than trying to get your point across in an IM.
Trains in the US & A? Can this really be true?
We have trains in the United States. I know. I just priced taking the train instead of the airplane for a possible upcoming vacation. It turns out that the train is more than twice as expensive as the plane and takes two days instead of 5 hours.
The point was moot anyway as it turns out I am not in the class of people that can afford to go on vacation.
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I don't see a direct connection between those 10 people and you.
The direct connection was that we were all on the same team. The company felt they could run the project with just me and one other guy. My feelings were that if the company felt like they could run it with just the other guy then I would have gotten a zero notice eviction as well. So I felt justified in giving them exactly the same amount of notice as they would have given me. However, they let me know that I was unprofessional and took away my unused vacation days as punishment.
If a router is handing out IPs, how is that stealing?
Well, considering that routers come from the factory configured to allow anyone access, and that changing this is not trivial to the average non-technical human being, I think that something needs to be done. We need to somehow make sure that people who intend to offer free wireless are, and the people who don't wish to aren't made to do so by default. I don't think it should be illegal to connect to an open wireless AP, but I also think that you should have to go out of your way to make your wireless open. Yes, this flies in the face of the Microsoft philosophy (sell software to everyman, but assume that everyone that buys one is an IT professional capable of locking it down because by default it's wide open.)
It's kind of like buying a fancy new color billboard for your gas station that comes with a complex programming interface and by default it says "free gas".
I know many places around where I live where you can be on a road with a speed limit of say 45 or 50, turn onto another road, and not see a speed limit sign for several miles. If I was on one of those roads and got a ticket because I had to guess at the speed limit due to a lack of signs, you'd better believe I'd be suing.
Most communities have a "default" speed limit, which you are supposed to go if there is no posted speed limit. Unfortunately, there is no way to know this default speed limit for every community that you could be driving through. Also unfortunately, ignorance is no excuse, so just to be safe, you should be sure to download and read the thousands of pages local regulations of each community that you will ever drive through. If they are not available online, you should visit the city hall, without driving, because you don't know the rules yet.
Which makes me wonder --- how, exactly, do they define child porn?
In my state child porn is pictures or video of person under the age of 18 involved in sexual acts or just unclothed. Also, anyone that looks like they are under the age of 18 according to the police inspector whether or not they actually are. Also , anyone that is obviously over the age of 18 but is dressed up to look like someone under the age of 18, also cartoon renderings of imaginary people who if they were not imaginary would be under the age of 18 or look like they would be in the opinion of the police investigator.
Of course the drug lab should be illegal but if it were compared to child porn, then the property owner would have been thrown in jail, while the guy hosting the drug lab without permission on the property would just move on to another property with a non-observant owner. In the computer industry, it is all too easy to find people who are not experts at securing their machines against people who are experts at breaking in to machines.
I say castrate the pedophiles
Just to clarify, do you mean the dictionary definition of pedophile, ie, an adult that likes to molest children, or the legal definition of pedophile, ie, someone who is 18 or greater and is unfortunate enough that their sexual partner is only 18 minus iota and/or someone who likes their 30 year old wife to wear pigtails and short skirts.
Oh, and you can quit without notice too.
But if you quit without notice, that is "unprofessional" and may get you blacklisted locally. However, if they fire you without notice, well that's just business. My last company fired 10 people with only an e-mail notice, and they didn't get the notice because the company locked their e-mail accounts. Then I quit with no notice and they acted like I was some kind of backstabber and to punish me, they refused to pay me my unused vacation time.
NEXRAD and CASA are not about long range predictions, and by long range I'm talking more than a few hours. These systems are designed to determine what is going on right now and what it means for nearby communities over the next short period of time.
Here in Oklahoma we have Gary England. He actually had a cameo on Twister. One of the local radio stations has a tribute to him sung to the tune of the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah. There's even a drinking game meant to go along with his live coverage during tornadoes.
You can accomplish this with 200 hours of real flight time using the 50-100.
That is true, but I figured if an hour of time is good enough for the FAA, then it is good enough to count to assuage the fears of the travelers. Now to add to the fears of the travelers, in some circumstances, you can count Microsoft Flight Simulator X (and maybe 9 I can't remember now) as simulator time. I have literally thousands of hours of MS Flightsim time, but less than a hundred of left seat time.
Median cost of a home in Cupertino: $649,000. Median mortgage payment: $2,145
Awesome! I guess I can afford a $649k house in California. Here in Oklahoma, I can only get about a $250k house for that mortgage payment.
But hey, the brightside of paying so little is you get pilots with 200 hours flying you around! Happy flying!
And how is this possible when the minimum requirements for a commercial Pilot's license is 250 hours? Also, not even a regional will take you with only 250 hours.
I agree with you. For someone with a few years of experience in IT, $89k is a slap in the face anywhere in the country. Now mind you, I don't make $89k, but then I am being paid about 2/3 of what other people with my same job duties according to salary.com. Naturally, I am doing whatever I can to change this anomaly.
Of course, it sounds prissy to whine about $89k when the average household income is just under $50k according to wikipedia (and frankly I thought it was a lot lower than that). But whether you are an underpaid janitor or an underpaid CEO, I figure either way you have a legitimate complaint.
Cool story bro.
Could have used a vampire though.
You must be a statistician. If not, you should be.
Is black a dominant gene? Because people who have one parent black and the other white seem to get labeled black rather than white or neither.
I've never in my 39 years (23 on the road) been on the receiving end of a road rage attack.
I've never been the subject of a road rage attack, but I have been the subject of road rage. I've been driving about 22 years, and I always try to be courteous. Sure, I get upset when people drive slow in the fast lane. But so as not to be a hypocrite, no matter how fast I am going, I always pull back in to the right lane unless I am about to pass someone again in the next 10 seconds.
One day, coming home from work, as I was getting off on my exit, this guy got right up on my bumper and laid on his horn continuously while flipping me the finger. He kept doing this until we got up to the stoplight for the exit ramp and he ended up right behind me. Since he was boxed in by myself and other cars, his true cowardly nature kicked in and he stopped honking and flipping me off. When the light turned green, and I pulled away, he got back on the horn and flipping me off again. I still to this day have no clue what he could possibly have been upset about. I had not so much as changed lanes in the two or three minutes before him showing up behind me honking and flipping me off.
Horn broken, watch for finger
Reading this pisses me off. Giving someone the finger means you're pissed at them. Using your horn does not mean you are pissed at them. The horn is for getting someone's attention when they don't see you or don't notice the light changed. It is not to be used to indicate that someone just did something to make you angry, to express lust for a cute girl on the sidewalk, or to try to get your carpool partner out of his house at 4 AM.
That's somnething for those of you who are childless who crow about "Darwin at work" when someone dies doing something stupid.
Natural selection is still at work when a stupid person who has already reproduced gets themselves killed. The persons offspring is now less likely to survive to reproductive age. This was much more true 1000 years ago, and is much more true in third world countries. But it is still a factor.
AND, if they bothered to RTFM, they could opt-out of "partner spam" 99% of the time by checking their e-mail preferences page on the site they agreed to receive the original crap from.
I don't think it is as high as 99%. Maybe 50% of even legitimate companies actually honor the "do not send me crap" box. X10.com sends me crap even though I ticked the box. Staples.com sends me crap even though I ticked the box. Tickets.com, don't get me started. Of course, now I don't buy stuff from these lying bastards anymore.
Either do the job or quit. .0001 positive leads he would have gotten. And the upside is that you will also get 0 hate mails, 0 blocked domains, 0 drops from your ISP and 0 lawsuits, all of which numbers would be slightly higher if the spam went out the door.
That's kind of harsh. How about just configure the mail server to quietly dump any e-mails with more than say, 20 recipients. Of course, if your company has any legitimate mailing lists, those would be excepted. Your boss can spam away and will generate 0 positive leads, which is very close to the
In a previous company, we received the "please keep all your important data in your user folder on the shared drive so that it can be backed up." email. The problem? Well, severalfold. For one thing, the job was 80% travel, and getting internet access was never a guarantee. For another, you couldn't get to the shared drive remotely, even via VPN. And for a third, the shared drive had a whopping 60 GB of space, for 300 users, each with at least a 40GB drive on their machine.
I NEVER leave people voicemail anymore and I rarely receive it. Voicemail is a stupid waste of time IMO.
Must be a generational thing. I know the new generation HATES voicemail. They will call you eight times in a ten minute period if you don't answer the phone and they NEVER leave a voicemail. In my opinion, this is just rude. If I see that I have calls on my phone, but no messages, then I just figure if it's not important enough to leave a message then it is not important.
Contrast this with the new generation that will immediately call back anybody that calls their phone even if they don't leave a message and even if they don't recognize the number. Heck I see people call back only to find it was a wrong number. Why would you call everybody back like that? If it was important they would have left a message.
It sounds like the problem you are describing is not one with your knowledge, but your personal frustration with your bosses who don't trust you at your word that employing technology X,Y, or Z will reap benefits.
I have the opposite problem. Using Skype at work has become a requirement. It used to be that everyone used Trillian, and most of my non-work acquaintances use Trillian, but everyone internally has switched to Skype and I was the last holdout, and was basically threatened that I had to install it. Luckily I haven't been threatened that I have to use it. I find IM to be disruptive. It is rarely useful in finding quick information in a support environment because people usually ignore their IMs for a couple of minutes before looking at it. Instead, it is a nuisance that causes me to have to switch gears from what I am doing in order to respond to someone who can't be bothered to come down to the office and hash something out in 30 seconds instead of wasting time going back and forth in IM for 30 minutes. Two way audible conversation is so much more useful than trying to get your point across in an IM.
Trains in the US & A? Can this really be true?
We have trains in the United States. I know. I just priced taking the train instead of the airplane for a possible upcoming vacation. It turns out that the train is more than twice as expensive as the plane and takes two days instead of 5 hours.
The point was moot anyway as it turns out I am not in the class of people that can afford to go on vacation.