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  1. Re:Any metric can be gamed on The Four Fallacies of IT Metrics · · Score: 1

    Accounting for time while on the clock in the office. For example, if you're sitting around with absolutely nothing to do, that would be classified as inactive. Internal Dept is when performing clerical work in the office that doesn't involve our clients in any way but still is an important workflow process to be performed. Non-billable is when you perform work for a client, but do not actually bill the client for that time. That one is rarely used. Generally a manager will authorize it or when a TSR performed work that caused a problem or didn't directly address the original issue as requested by the client. Things like deleting a local printer based on an assumption without actually taking the time to verify with the client first. As you can see, they would be pretty pissed. So the TSR should correct that mistake and not bill the client for it. Their screw up, not the clients.

  2. Re:Must be nice... on Google Engineer Builds Ultimate LAN Party House · · Score: 2

    LIAN LI Lancool PC-K7B. It's a hybrid case that's housed in aluminum with the internals being steel. Because the outside surface area is aluminum, it cools better exothermically than an all steel case would. I've built a few PCs with this case. I highly recommend it as it's the best of both worlds.

  3. Re:Any metric can be gamed on The Four Fallacies of IT Metrics · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I work for an MSP (Manage Service Provider). We account for time every 15 minutes. Inactive, internal department active, billable active, and non-billable active. All of this logging of time gets calculated out as metrics that define our bonus. So the outcome is pretty much as you've stated. But that's ok, we know how the metric get calculated and thus we game the system of metric without cheating our clients out of money. Naturally, that would be dishonest to do otherwise. But I'll be damned if I sit back and be judged and taken advantage of by some MBA that can't even interoperate the concept of what those numbers are supposed to mean in the first place. They only need to know two things. Is the work billable to the client, and how much. They're free to speak to a manager if they wish to contest the hours performed and/or quality of work. The point is, we want their business. So it serves no point to lose clients for us.

    It will get worse I hear. Rumor has it we will be timed every 5 minutes with a USB activity button. Sort of like a Chess timer or some such. Also, our keyboards will be logged for activity and application fields will track mouse moment and other activity. It's absolutely nuts. At this rate, they'll need to hire me a secratary just to do the logging for me while I focus on actual work. Hey, now that's cost effective right? I bet they didn't think of that, did they. Doh!

  4. Re:What about the Tea Party Movement? on Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester" · · Score: 1

    True, Ron Paul is getting shafted here. I really like Newt Gingrich. He's the most informed candidate and perhaps has the highest IQ of them all. Politicians are wise to not debate him. He'll crush them with his historical knowledge. Unfortunately, the same reason I like him is the exact same reason I can't vote for him. He's a renegade just like John McCain, but worse. Unlike McCain that did most of his flip-flopping on nuance, Newt did his purely for political reasons. He's a 'playa'. But the real nail in the coffin is that he supports the Patriot Act. He knows all too well about government bloat and the internal yearning for government agencies to grow and fester uncontested. I know that he's extremely intelligent. So why in the hell would he support an agency that when projected for growth in power and influence over time, we will soon get what amounts to the German Stasi?

    I know many fellow blue-blooded Republicans that don't like these live debates in which candidates "tear each other apart" on national TV, but I think this is the most healthy process of our democracy. We need the skeletons out of the closet and laundry out in the breeze. So today, I haven't made up my mind who I'm going to vote for - yet. But one thing is for sure. If anyone on either side slings mud with baseless accusations, you're only mudding the water for the American public to make an informed decision. But that's exactly the point isn't? For political gain. So when I see politicians fling poo instead of debating, they instantly go on my list of people not to vote for .

  5. Re:What about the Tea Party Movement? on Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester" · · Score: 2

    It's called psychological projection. Also known as hypocrisy. Ivory league progressives are the gold standard of this behavior. Militant leftists would also be included except for the fact they have no standards in the first place. For the later, they're a bunch of thugs, hooligans, gypsies, and otherwise a page out of the Lord of the Flies. They will learn discipline and be held accountable among their fellow citizens one way or another. I can promise you that.

  6. Re:What about the Tea Party Movement? on Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester" · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm still going to throw that lie back in your face. I am holding you personally accountable of for it. You made a blatant false statement that Tea Party members are destructive in comparison to OWS. I can site countless videos and pictures online of how uncivilized OWS members are in comparison to TP members. I'm not, nor did I ever discount the message they bring to the forefront. But the lack of civility OWS have shown in comparison is unconscionable!

    Take it like a man and admit it. Repent for your crimes against humanity for being a revisionist. You owe us an apology.

  7. Re:What about the Tea Party Movement? on Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester" · · Score: -1, Troll

    BS. You don't know jack. You're ignorant, and a lier to boot. No amount of fanciful wording will change that fact. When you started comparing OWS to TP members, that did it for me. That's all that I need to know or care about. Because of that, I don't trust what you say now and into the future. So take your historical revisionism and shove it!

  8. Re:What about the Tea Party Movement? on Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester" · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Tea Party was all about irrational, destructive rabble-rousing.

    Two problems here. 1st, you're lying! 2nd, you're a karma whore for capitalizing on anti-consertative ignorant fucks out there with Mod points. TP members are polite in comparison to the OWS members. OWS leave a wake of filth and destruction in their path. The graffiti can be quite creative, and the youtube videos of members squatting to take a literal shit on the sidewalk. Let's not also forget the outbreak of scabies and ringworm. Oh, and between the two protest movements, OWS had the most arrests. Oh, and rapes have been documented too. I could go on and on... Not that the "truth" matters from what I can tell here.

  9. Re:What about the Tea Party Movement? on Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester" · · Score: 0, Troll

    Because TIME is liberal hippie magazine as far as mainstream publications go. I can site plenty of examples from Global Warming to Obama. No other US president can claim that much front cover status. Not a single one!

  10. Re:Secret Sauce on Fracking Disclosure Rules Approved In CO · · Score: 1

    If you look on the back of any food product package sold in the US, you'll find a list of ingredients. However, this list doesn't tell you the ratio and method of how they were combined.

  11. Re:Now these guys have some balls on Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone · · Score: 3, Funny

    I prefer the ubiquitous political cartoon.

  12. Re:No they can't on LHC Homes In On Possible Higgs Boson Around 126GeV · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's the God particle. Have a little faith.

  13. Re:yes and no on In Favor of Homegrown IT Solutions · · Score: 1

    File Maker Pro comes to mind. What a POS

  14. Re:yes and no on In Favor of Homegrown IT Solutions · · Score: 1

    You just described Microsoft Office 365. Oh, and setting any kind of permission level access to the folders and content is almost non-existent.

  15. Re:IT needs apprenticeship not degrees. Tech schoo on In Favor of Homegrown IT Solutions · · Score: 3, Informative

    I keep seeing this posted often on Slashdot. Of all the industries, IT is the absolute worst example you could name being a candidate of some sort of apprenticeship program. That's because Information Technology is fast moving target that defines progress and changes in paradigms. It's also why even IT college degrees are almost worthless too. I'll leave CS out of this because they actually rely on math and other proven techniques that have wide reaching applicability. But certifications such as an MCSE and CCNA only prove familiarity. They do not however prove experience. In fact, I would state that these certifications are best suited to compliment your resume of existing experience.

  16. Re:This just in... on Internet Explorer Users Have Low Risk Intelligence · · Score: 1

    2012 Bugatti Veyron averages 10Mpg from a 16 cyl, 8L engine. More than just a "sports car". It's an exotic. Hardly ill-handling at that.

  17. Re:Salt in the wound? on Internet Explorer Users Have Low Risk Intelligence · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lets go a step further. Droid users would rather vote for Ron Paul where as Apple users would re-elect Barack Obama. If you're going to throw gasoline onto the fire, at least learn to do it right.

  18. Re:Congratulations on FBI Rejects Freedom of Information Act Request About Carrier IQ · · Score: 1

    While your at it, might as well inquire about "The List" too.

    If there's going to be a dog and pony show, might as well go along for the ride.

  19. Re:It's working on The Mexican Cartel's Hi-Tech Drug Tunnels · · Score: 1

    Heroin. You can't just have a few hits and live a normal productive life at home and in the work force. Once you're hooked, you're undeniably fucked. So is the nation having to support these addicts. Imagine a world where consumption out strips production. Nations depend on a stable and productive economy to harvest, service, and make product. Heroine addicts are parasites to whatever nation harbors them.

  20. Re:Yeah right. on Facebook Could Spawn Thousands of Milionaires · · Score: 1

    Ya but, don't you feel lucky? Last one to sell out is a rotten egg!

  21. Re:ok on World's First Programmable Quantum Photonic Chip · · Score: 1

    Sure, but first you'll need to channel that to an electromagnetic multiplexed photon phase inverter (EMPPIC) for that. Now you should be able to invert the phase post-processing. I have no idea about the tachyon results though. Good luck.

    By the way, please don't rip a hole in the space-time continuum. Consider it a personal favor not too.Thanks.

  22. Re:This is being whitewashed from the white house on LightSquared Disrupts 75% of GPS Connections In Government Test · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Politics + Money = Corruption. All of those consumer devices that use GPS? Pffffttttt, do you think any of those assholes in DC care? FUuuuuuuck noooooo!

  23. Re:Or, translated in plain english on Renault Opens Up the 'Car As a Platform' · · Score: 0

    True story. I hope my ex gf isn't reading this.

    When I was younger, my then girlfriend wanted us to take a late night weekend trip to a porno rental shack. The kind branding an XXX on a small road sign. The entire concept freaked me out. So did the store clerk. I really wanted to go incognito, but she didn't have time for that. Now I know what your thinking. A girl wants to shop for a porno flick by the guy objected, WTF??? Ya I know, but she was a freak and often not in a good way. Anyways, when we walked out to get my car I noticed the keys locked inside it. I called a wrecker to open the door. This 17 yr old rookie on the job instead busted my window from applying too much force. Now we have a bunch of people standing around the parking lot and people slowing down on the street as they pass by. Eventually, the police shows up because my ex starts bitching (never mind it was her damn idea and my car).

    I really wish I had OnStar that day.

  24. Re:Pipe dream on Microsoft and GE Partner On Healthcare · · Score: 1

    Members of Congress have and never will eat their own dog food anyways. So it's far worse than you think.

  25. Re:In unrelated news... on PC Makers Run Short of Popular Drives · · Score: 1

    A client that I perform server maintenance for just had two drives drop out in the same day (one for each server). So two RAID5 containers are now in a degraded state and their out of warranty to boot. Not my fault, I warned and pleaded with them years ago about renewal. Anyways, yes. Drives always seem to go bad at the most inconvenient of times. It's almost a law a nature or something.