What ever happened to mmogs being about silly stuff like that? An MMO where people ask you for a Scope of Work all the time? I play one of those every workday!
The 50 cent 911 fee was mandated by the federal government a few years ago to recoup the costs associated with municipalities providing 911 service. At work on our Allstream bill, we pay much less than 50 cents for it. I don't know if it's a different rate for landline service, but the more likely explanation is that cellphone companies mark up the price.
Dude, we're just saying for them to not re-invent CVS. There's better systems available. Move on. All the time they spend rewriting CVS to be secure they could spend auditing SVN and help more users than just themselves. Or you could stop telling people what they should or shouldn't do in their spare time. If someone has a passion for writing really great CVS software, what's it to you?
No, you have your negation wrong.... If Complex == Insecure then !Complex = !Insecure, and thus Simple = Secure. Technically you should say the following, where "->" is the symbol for "implies":
If Complex -> Insecure, then: !Insecure -> !Complex; and Secure -> Simple
Otherwise your method of reasoning would go like this:
Don't stop to correct your mistakes. Don't even look at the typed words, look at the keyboard. Just keep typing, and you can be very fast. Use the force. So using an iPhone is like wearing a helmet with the blast shield down? Got it!
Doesn't seem that strange to me, either. That's been the policy everywhere I have, or would consider working. Limited personal use is fine, as long as it doesn't subject the company to liability (meaning, no porn, downloading warez, etc.) and it doesn't interfere with work. The part I found strange is that using Facebook (browsing on some website) results in getting sacked whereas using work email (which, in many companies, is stored forever) for personal use is perfectly fine.
Likewise, I've been known to *gasp* pay my bills while I'm waiting on a compile or listening to a conference call. My projects always get delivered working as promised, on time, and usually under budget, so my boss pretty much gives me free reign to come and go as I please as well. It's called treating me like a responsible professional. Of course. The company treats you like a professional and, in return, you behave professionally. It simply looks like I make different choices than you do, and that's fine. My boss makes personal calls all the time and other employees do so on occasion as well. I choose not to.
I dunno... in case of emergency? Maybe if your cell phone is not getting a signal, is misplaced, or is uncharged? I suppose if it's an emergency and they can't dial my cell phone, they can look up the contact info on the website, dial the main number, and use the dial-by-name directory to reach me. However, I get great reception at work and charge my phone every night, so the odds of that happening is extremely low.
So what difference does it make whether you get a personal call on your cell phone or your desk phone? Either way you're taking/making a personal call on company time. Seems like a pretty arbitrary distinction to me. It is fairly arbitrary, but the way I see it is that it's not my phone to use except for business. And the duration of my calls is typically no more than five minutes -- given that I generally only take a lunch break, I consider those my break times and not impacting my productivity. Plus, when I get a personal call I can walk outside or into another room and not disturb my coworkers with my conversation.
What if your cell phone is paid for by your company? Do you just not get any personal calls except for at home? Would you own two different cell phones? I have a Blackberry paid for by work (for emergency email alerts) but I don't give out that phone number to anyone -- the incoming ringer is even turned off. The only time I make outbound calls on that is for work and if I don't want to expense long distance or whatever from my personal cell phone. So, yes, I do carry two cell phones.
Well, I'm not going to be passing love notes on the corporate email. Besides those types of messages, why not? What do I care? I guess you don't, but I do. I recently had a friend get a virus which emailed out to everyone in her address book. I wouldn't want to be responsible for a virus even entering the company's network, even if it had no impact. Also, my family has a tendency to forward those multi-megabyte powerpoint slideshows with some "amazing you have to see!" pictures and music on to me. Why would I want crap like that to enter the company's network and use up server resources? That's what personal email addresses are for. And because they're not being sent to my work address, I'm not interrupted with a new message alert in Outlook.
I will check my gmail account perhaps at lunch and before I leave work, which is somewhat inconsistent as I'm using a work computer for personal reasons. However I keep it at a minimum and if I had a wireless PDA which I could use for that instead of my work computer, I would do so. My belief is that wherever possible, I will keep my personal and work usage completely separate. Where it's not practical then I will use my own judgment as to what is reasonable.
nor have I ever made a personal phone call from a company phone.
You've never called your significant other that you're going to be late? You've never called up your insurance agent from work? Made an appointment with your doctor? I usually end up making or receiving one or two personal calls per day but always on my personal cell phone. Perhaps that is extreme as local calls don't cost a dime, but that's just my preference.
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Moreover, employers don't really care if you e-mail your friends from your account, provided you're not taking the piss. In contrast, browsing social networking sites from work can get you sacked. Strange policy your employer has. I've never sent a personal email from my company account, nor have I ever made a personal phone call from a company phone. Unless I've given them a business card, my friends and family don't even know how to contact me at work. And why should they? I have a cell phone for personal calls and I use gmail for personal email. Do you really want your personal emails archived along with every other corporate email in perpetuity? So the next time the company is issued a court order to produce a log of emails, all your personal junk is in there too and made public record for anyone to see?
I think at this point, a nuclear strike is what's required. If people want to run their own SMTP servers, they can apply for permission to do so. Otherwise, whitelist individual SMTP servers as you suggest, or use your ISP's servers where spam checking can be centralized.
FWIW, I'm from the midwest and that is the way we were taught to spell potatoe and tomatoe. I don't know if it is a rural thing, a midwest thing or what, but I never understood why folks got into such a tizzy over the spelling. And the reason is exactly as you state, it is the proper way to make the preceding vowel a long sound. Soe, I guess you also goe to the store. Noe?
Here's a handy search tip: let's say you want to look for the movie Harry Potter in Shareaza. Reverse the word order so you search for Potter Harry, apply the filter -"Potter Harry" and you'll get the results you're looking for minus all the viruses, spyware, and trojans which (at least presently) use the exact order of what you search for.
I own just over half of the 'Spam' accounts on hotmail and I will soon receive just over half of the $31 million dollar refund. This has the $ sign as well as the redundant word "dollar" -- a sure sign of a total fake.
The text of Hamlet, even stripped of punctuation, contains well over 130,000 letters which would lead to a probability of one in 3.4×10^183946. Last I checked, that's still a lot less than infinite.
This behavior is pretty normal. I will open all interesting links in an article, then view them one at a time. Sure, I do it all the time as well. However, by "normal" I'm referring to the average Joe out there. I'd wager that kind of browsing behavior will be statistically insignificant for some time still.
Last link viewed believes it's open the longest, even if I close it as soon as I see it. Do it all the time. In that case, the last link viewed only becomes a single page view and counts towards the bounce rate, not the time on site since it's a single point in time and there are no subsequent views to establish duration.
For situations like that, I can see several possibilities which would emerge if such features gain traction. The first would be to implement a different useragent string to identify this specific behavior. Instead of "Opera/X.Y..." it would be great to have "Opera-SpeedDial/X.Y...". This would allow you to filter out those hits and it gives the added benefit that now you can specifically track how many SpeedDial visits there were and, should this increase sufficiently, perhaps design your pages in such a way as to be more thumbnail friendly.
The other possibility is to pass something in along with the HTTP request much like passing in authentication credentials or cookie values. Effectively a "don't count my visit" parameter. However, I think this has more potential to be abused and the useragent method is likely of more value.
That might be true, but what about when I open a link in a new tab from something I am reading but don't get to it for another 20 minutes. After I get to it I notice that the link is crap and close it right away. Total time spent = 4 seconds. Total time they think spent is 20 minutes 4 seconds. There will always be examples like that. However, unless such behavior becomes even remotely normal then statistically speaking I don't think it would make a dent in usage patterns. Certainly not if you consider median usage rather than average.
Great analogy. Just remember that there are far, far fewer moving vans in this world for a reason and that they sit next to the curb more than the pickups. If you don't need the moving van, you can always get by with the pickup -- as long as you don't mind stopping traffic for hours if you eventually do need to make the switch to a moving van. Then hopefully your driver is rated to operate that class of vehicles.:)
In my experience, most people don't bother to close their browser when they are done browsing. It's even worse for people used to tabbed browsing. How many times do you shut down the computer at night with tabs containing something you looked at with your morning coffee? I know I do as often as not. That doesn't matter. Assuming you don't have some kind of page refresh every n seconds, most analytics software have timeout values between page loads. If you don't close your browser and then come back the next morning and continue where you left off, the analytics software should see that it's been more than 30 minutes between page loads and consider it a new visit.
Nagios would be lighting up my phone if it was something big... Do you mean that literally? As in Nagios phones you when there's a problem, or just that your Blackberry starts beeping from the email/SMS alerts? If you've got something hooked up with the phone, I'm curious to find out more.
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What ever happened to mmogs being about silly stuff like that? An MMO where people ask you for a Scope of Work all the time? I play one of those every workday!
If Complex -> Insecure, then:
!Insecure -> !Complex; and
Secure -> Simple
Otherwise your method of reasoning would go like this:
Square = Four-sided-figure
!Square = !Four-sided-figure
. . . which doesn't make sense because then you could say "and thus, a non-square rectangle isn't a four-sided figure".
Good old Wikipedia has the details.
I will check my gmail account perhaps at lunch and before I leave work, which is somewhat inconsistent as I'm using a work computer for personal reasons. However I keep it at a minimum and if I had a wireless PDA which I could use for that instead of my work computer, I would do so. My belief is that wherever possible, I will keep my personal and work usage completely separate. Where it's not practical then I will use my own judgment as to what is reasonable.
You've never called your significant other that you're going to be late? You've never called up your insurance agent from work? Made an appointment with your doctor? I usually end up making or receiving one or two personal calls per day but always on my personal cell phone. Perhaps that is extreme as local calls don't cost a dime, but that's just my preference.
I think at this point, a nuclear strike is what's required. If people want to run their own SMTP servers, they can apply for permission to do so. Otherwise, whitelist individual SMTP servers as you suggest, or use your ISP's servers where spam checking can be centralized.
And the solution to zombies on broadband is really simple.
Yeah, it seems to be the Gnutella2 network. I just did a search for: havenwar 867124 and here are some of the results:
1.20MB: tUboO @ havenwar 867124 1 (uCF)[x].zip
559KB: Angel havenwar 867124 1 [New Version] Vocal.wma
355KB: [LiveStream] havenwar 867124 1 @256kbps Extended.wma
1.30MB: (CDZ) havenwar 867124 1 (full)(Divx).zip
Status is all green checkmarks with multiple sources, reporting 16 or 24KB/s download speed, and some show a five-star rating.
Here's a handy search tip: let's say you want to look for the movie Harry Potter in Shareaza. Reverse the word order so you search for Potter Harry, apply the filter -"Potter Harry" and you'll get the results you're looking for minus all the viruses, spyware, and trojans which (at least presently) use the exact order of what you search for.
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Haiku from BeOS
Multitasking all programs no delay
Open source for the win
(5-7-5 syllables) Hai-ku from Be-Oh-Ess (6 syllables)
Mul-ti-tas-king all pro-grams no de-lay (10 syllables)
O-pen source for the win (6 syllables)
Methinks you don't understand what a syllable is.
For situations like that, I can see several possibilities which would emerge if such features gain traction. The first would be to implement a different useragent string to identify this specific behavior. Instead of "Opera/X.Y ..." it would be great to have "Opera-SpeedDial/X.Y ...". This would allow you to filter out those hits and it gives the added benefit that now you can specifically track how many SpeedDial visits there were and, should this increase sufficiently, perhaps design your pages in such a way as to be more thumbnail friendly.
The other possibility is to pass something in along with the HTTP request much like passing in authentication credentials or cookie values. Effectively a "don't count my visit" parameter. However, I think this has more potential to be abused and the useragent method is likely of more value.