By always looking busy, never telling the manager what I'm working on until it's done, and reporting I'm capable of doing less work than I actually am. Then, when I exceed expectations, my manager loves me, and when I deliver shiny new toys, the rest of the department loves me.
I was talking about your workspace, not commute. You usually spend much more time there and don't want to compromise there.
a) a laptop/netbook is a good addition, but you don't want to type 8hrs+ on a laptop keyboard. Say hi to carpal tunnel syndrome. It's ok during commute, but you shouldn't need to commute that long.
b) fine with at least a widescreen. but again, screen space is not replaceable. except by even more of it.
External keyboard, individual to the devs taste of ergonomical. Two monitors, one for IDE/debugger, one for running/reference lookup. Preloading any developper tools is pointless, as you will need the ones in use in your company.
You mean pretty much everyone? Because girls go out shopping together, either with friends or their boyfriends so that they can get their opinions on how something look.
They don't want that opinion if that dress makes her ass really look fat.
You raised a few valid points, but they haven't been decided on by the courts as far as I know.
The attack vector from your last paragraph won't work with the security measures currently in place. Before clearing a transaction, you receive a SMS with the details of your transaction and you have to confirm it with a hash that's included in that message. Alomst all security systems require a confirmation with an externally generated hash, be it mTAN as I desecribed or TANS generated by an external device.
#1: this happend in 2008. Since October 2009, there is new legislation in place that, that shifts liability to the bank (except in cases of gross negligence on the side of the customer) It's the bank that save money by offering online banking instead of traditional counters, so they are responsible for making that process secure.
#2: There is not a single bank anymore that uses plain one-time transaction codes anymore.
#3: A few months ago another german court ruled that it's enough for a customer to have up to date virus software for due diligence. That's all a bank can expect from customers with typical, average computer knowledge.
#4. On the other hand (and that's what's the actual rationale behind this story here), a bank can expect customers to understand and remember a security advice along the lines of "We will never ask you for more than one transaction code in a row and we will never ask you for a transaction code at all unless you want to make a transaction in the first place"
I'm all in favor of adequate prices for higher service.
But again - if you're crammed into those 28 inches on every flight and food tastes like cardboard no matter what airline I'm choosing - price again becomes the criteria.
Star Trek had some very real influence on geeks. They saw a Utopia in it that they'd like to see happened, and some worked towards it.
And they saw engineers saving the day!
They might have mainly done so by reversing some polarity, but it was defintly a change from seeing cowboys, stuntmen, P.I.s, soldiers or policemen beeing the usual heros of the day.
when Neal does a long digression on a historical character in Baroque Cycle it is generally just because the character is important historically, not because the character is important to the story. Neal is just name-dropping. It is annoying, and for those who are familiar with history around that time, it is also quite boring.
I consider every work I read from him to be a textbook woven into a good story. That makes it harder to read, but gives the bonus of... well.. getting a textbook along with the novel.
He claims facts to me made up as part of the novels... That's exactly the opposite Dan Brown does:-)
Anathem is another recent book that is pretty good though it is, like most of his book, too long.
It's fun to read in a kind of puzzle-way-of fun. It was like taking a bunch of philosophy and science textbooks, and remove every name in and the goal of the puzzle is to fill in the blanks. The blanks in Anathem of course were some made up mediaval science-fiction names, so you also had to find out where the blanks actually are to increase the fun.
Ok, a twisted kind of fun perhaps... but similar to the fun in trivia games and other brain teasers.
Minitel was a big success as far as I remember as people were given minitel terminals.
From wikipedia:
"Millions of terminals were handed out free to telephone subscribers, resulting in a high penetration rate among businesses and the public. In exchange for the terminal, the possessors of Minitel would not be given free "white page" printed directories (alphabetical list of residents and firms), but only the yellow pages (classified commercial listings, with advertisements); the white pages were accessible for free on Minitel, and they could be searched by a reasonably intelligent search engine; much faster than flipping through a paper directory."
If that doesn't sound like a win-win situation.
Phone company pushing their system into market No more phonebooks clogging your mailbox free minitel device search engine access to the phone directory
The IKEA I know would simply sell a VESA (or maybe own IKEA standard) TV fixing that can be mounted perfectly to 90% of other IKEA furniture, some adhesive cable holders and offer a range of TVs. And OF COURSE you have to assemble it yourself!
And a mix'n'match online configurater tool that prints your shopping list.
BTW. there is a site out there for IKEA hacking. Shows what you can do with their anything - matches -anything else concept.
Wouldn't it be LESS stupid to fix that shortcomming of keyless ignition instead of adding another system that may fail? (and e.g. block your wheels when you're going 150 at the highway?)
In addition: just stepping on the brake should ALSO activate them.
Since I am seeing this same reaction in several threads, I'll do the legwork and post it in each one... From the source article:
The U.S. court should be the one to rule on that issue, Microsoft argued, because Microsoft filed its lawsuit against Motorola over the terms of a licensing deal before Motorola filed its suit in Germany.
Now we have two courts, in diferent legislations, ruling in the same case? Absurdity++
I agree with you, Germany is a sovereign country - the US should restrict its recourse to "we will engage in sanctions if you do this", not "our courts find you must do this".
A company needs to respect the laws of the country it has business in. This should be a basic rule, as that is what both US and Germany are expecting when a company from anywhere in the world starts business there.
Sounds rather like another PayPal than another Bitcoin.
But whatever it'll turn out to be, it'll be another payment system. So even if it is actually better than anything in existence, it adds to the fragmentation of payment systems.
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Well if you can enjoy that during a meeting, you're REALLY SICK!
"Oh yea.. look at those figures..."
By always looking busy, never telling the manager what I'm working on until it's done, and reporting I'm capable of doing less work than I actually am. Then, when I exceed expectations, my manager loves me, and when I deliver shiny new toys, the rest of the department loves me.
Don't we all do this shtick?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9SVhg6ZENw
Why should they? Things that that has benefits in the way future won't effect the quarterly numbers on which their bonus is measured on.
Things are different in family run businesses. Long term investment might mean a generation or two....
You could also buy the optical variant.
Over here they drew some flak for getting already pulled down along with the aquired Chrysler...
I was talking about your workspace, not commute. You usually spend much more time there and don't want to compromise there.
a) a laptop/netbook is a good addition, but you don't want to type 8hrs+ on a laptop keyboard. Say hi to carpal tunnel syndrome. It's ok during commute, but you shouldn't need to commute that long.
b) fine with at least a widescreen. but again, screen space is not replaceable. except by even more of it.
...but a developer machine is a desktop.
External keyboard, individual to the devs taste of ergonomical. Two monitors, one for IDE/debugger, one for running/reference lookup.
Preloading any developper tools is pointless, as you will need the ones in use in your company.
You mean pretty much everyone? Because girls go out shopping together, either with friends or their boyfriends so that they can get their opinions on how something look.
They don't want that opinion if that dress makes her ass really look fat.
Not over here. Sounds like a US problem to me.
So does the bank pay for a mobile phone plan for the customer? No? Then how is it not "let the customer pay"?
The bank pays for sending the sms. So unless you have internet but no cell phone, there's no additional cost for security on the customer side.
You raised a few valid points, but they haven't been decided on by the courts as far as I know.
The attack vector from your last paragraph won't work with the security measures currently in place. Before clearing a transaction, you receive a SMS with the details of your transaction and you have to confirm it with a hash that's included in that message. Alomst all security systems require a confirmation with an externally generated hash, be it mTAN as I desecribed or TANS generated by an external device.
He ignored the banks security warnings, and that's why _he_ is responsible for his losses.
Nothing to see here. please move on.
Stupidity still isn't protected by the law.
Nowadays, yes. The case from the article happend 2008.
That security protocol isn't in use anymore.
The bank specifically issued a warning against exactly the type of attack the customer fell for.
That ruling is in line with the laws in place 2008, when that happend, Laws have been changed since then.
#1: this happend in 2008. Since October 2009, there is new legislation in place that, that shifts liability to the bank (except in cases of gross negligence on the side of the customer) It's the bank that save money by offering online banking instead of traditional counters, so they are responsible for making that process secure.
#2: There is not a single bank anymore that uses plain one-time transaction codes anymore.
#3: A few months ago another german court ruled that it's enough for a customer to have up to date virus software for due diligence. That's all a bank can expect from customers with typical, average computer knowledge.
#4. On the other hand (and that's what's the actual rationale behind this story here), a bank can expect customers to understand and remember a security advice along the lines of "We will never ask you for more than one transaction code in a row and we will never ask you for a transaction code at all unless you want to make a transaction in the first place"
So there is not much relevance to this story.
I'm all in favor of adequate prices for higher service.
But again - if you're crammed into those 28 inches on every flight and food tastes like cardboard no matter what airline I'm choosing - price again becomes the criteria.
Star Trek had some very real influence on geeks. They saw a Utopia in it that they'd like to see happened, and some worked towards it.
And they saw engineers saving the day!
They might have mainly done so by reversing some polarity, but it was defintly a change from seeing cowboys, stuntmen, P.I.s, soldiers or policemen beeing the usual heros of the day.
when Neal does a long digression on a historical character in Baroque Cycle it is generally just because the character is important historically, not because the character is important to the story. Neal is just name-dropping. It is annoying, and for those who are familiar with history around that time, it is also quite boring.
I consider every work I read from him to be a textbook woven into a good story. That makes it harder to read, but gives the bonus of... well.. getting a textbook along with the novel.
He claims facts to me made up as part of the novels... That's exactly the opposite Dan Brown does :-)
Anathem is another recent book that is pretty good though it is, like most of his book, too long.
It's fun to read in a kind of puzzle-way-of fun. It was like taking a bunch of philosophy and science textbooks, and remove every name in and the goal of the puzzle is to fill in the blanks. The blanks in Anathem of course were some made up mediaval science-fiction names, so you also had to find out where the blanks actually are to increase the fun.
Ok, a twisted kind of fun perhaps... but similar to the fun in trivia games and other brain teasers.
Minitel was a big success as far as I remember as people were given minitel terminals.
From wikipedia:
"Millions of terminals were handed out free to telephone subscribers, resulting in a high penetration rate among businesses and the public. In exchange for the terminal, the possessors of Minitel would not be given free "white page" printed directories (alphabetical list of residents and firms), but only the yellow pages (classified commercial listings, with advertisements); the white pages were accessible for free on Minitel, and they could be searched by a reasonably intelligent search engine; much faster than flipping through a paper directory."
If that doesn't sound like a win-win situation.
Phone company pushing their system into market
No more phonebooks clogging your mailbox
free minitel device
search engine access to the phone directory
The IKEA I know would simply sell a VESA (or maybe own IKEA standard) TV fixing that can be mounted perfectly to 90% of other IKEA furniture, some adhesive cable holders and offer a range of TVs. And OF COURSE you have to assemble it yourself!
And a mix'n'match online configurater tool that prints your shopping list.
BTW. there is a site out there for IKEA hacking. Shows what you can do with their anything - matches -anything else concept.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
Wouldn't it be LESS stupid to fix that shortcomming of keyless ignition instead of adding another system that may fail? (and e.g. block your wheels when you're going 150 at the highway?)
In addition: just stepping on the brake should ALSO activate them.
Since I am seeing this same reaction in several threads, I'll do the legwork and post it in each one... From the source article:
The U.S. court should be the one to rule on that issue, Microsoft argued, because Microsoft filed its lawsuit against Motorola over the terms of a licensing deal before Motorola filed its suit in Germany.
Now we have two courts, in diferent legislations, ruling in the same case? Absurdity++
I agree with you, Germany is a sovereign country - the US should restrict its recourse to "we will engage in sanctions if you do this", not "our courts find you must do this".
A company needs to respect the laws of the country it has business in. This should be a basic rule, as that is what both US and Germany are expecting when a company from anywhere in the world starts business there.
Sounds rather like another PayPal than another Bitcoin.
But whatever it'll turn out to be, it'll be another payment system. So even if it is actually better than anything in existence, it adds to the fragmentation of payment systems.