Pointing out the obvious: The headline and summary aren't really accurate to the linked article.
Has anyone considered the impact this sort of thing has on Slashdot's credibility?
Maybe I'm looking at it through rose colored glasses, but I used to like reading through all the summaries and linked articles on Slashdot. Now it seems like in the last 8-12 months, more and more headlines and their accompanying sumamries are deliberately misleading and inflammatory. I skim the RSS headlines and have found myself assuming that any headline that says "Microsft does X", "Comcast now doing Y", "Verizon did Z" etc. is probably off the mark and just nother boy crying wolf. It seems that I'm right about hald the time; which is about 45% more then I should be.
Most of these "inaccuracies" seem to pander to various anti-insert-company-here sentiments - ie., Verizon has been shown to have done a bunch of shady shit regarding spying or Comcast with it's throttling/filtering/P2P blocking or whatever, so now they do something stupid and it gets twisted into something much larger and more sinister.
Yes, Verizon is moronic for not allowing customer serivce people a little latitude or for having simplistic filtering, but nowhere did I read they denied DSL. They did deny an email address though. Verizon should also probably work on dealing with people-telling someone to misspell their name in order to avoid some stupid email address name filter misses the point. BUT, everything I read suggests that he would have been ok with an email address like DrHermanIL@XXX; not that he should he have to do that though.
If Slashdot's motto was something like "It's not news, it's Slashdot", I'd make a little one line post about how the headline and linked article disagree. But with a motto of "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters", I'd expect accuracy and a little less hysteria and/or pandering.
The alternative methods officers have to subdue a resisting/fighting subject are nearly always more damaging. Arm bars, blows, sometimes baton or truncheon assisted, having numerous officers pile on top of the suspect, etc... In some cases the alternative might even be to shoot the suspect.
Yes, the taser has replaced the baton, 4-cell maglight, etc. and with those defensive weapons/tactics went the restraint in their deployment. That's the real problem. The police deploy tasers where they wouldn't have deployed batons, pepper spray, flashlights, etc. Now, they don't have to talk to anyone or even really consider any non-physical means to resolve the situation. Hell, they don't even explain why they're taking the actions they are (citations, arrest, etc.) They just use the taser.
I remember very clearly, a period where the taser WAS pitched as an alternative to lethal force. If a police officer faced someone with a knife or other non-firearm weapon, he now had an alternative to his firearm-the taser. It was positioned as a way to reduce death in formerly lethal situations.
I know very clearly that it was NEVER promoted as a tool of compliance or as an alternative to all other methods of subduing someone.
Go through the game as a replicant, deal in real and fake animals, stealing spinners, avoiding Blade runners, bribe/fake your way though VK tests, etc...
One nitpick-I can still use my PC while it's folding. If I sent $150 to them and didn't fold, I would still end up paying a separate amount to my power company for all the time my PC is up.
I used to leave my PC on all the time because we used it as an MP3 server and some other trivial functions. Because of that I didn't see folding@home's additioanl load as a big deal.
Now, if we could figure out how much more folding@home costs to run on a PC that's already up 24/7...
Indeed, as do the System i 595s (yeah, same hardware as the already mentioned p595). I don't know about AIX and Linux, but I don't believe i5/OS can actually access the entire 2TB max of the i595.
Assuming that memory limitations follows the same limitations as processors, a single partition would be able to access at least 1TB. Right now, the 595 will go up to 64 way, but i5/OS partitions have a limit of 32 processors. I'm assuming memory would be similarly limited. Still (2) 32-way 1TB machines would be nice (and unbelievably expensive).
The p/i570 is not too shabby with a 768GB limit.
On a side note, does anyone else think IBM should just consolidate the p and i systems. Perhaps call is "System pi" and come up with a bunch of goofy marketing related to pi? IE., Have your pi and eat it too-show some guy eating pie while his 'pi' system is up and the wintel people:P are dealing with outages. "System pi"-the possibilities are endless. Stuff like that?
FTA: A Fox News story says the man parked his truck in front of the shop during lunch breaks and checked his e-mail on his laptop computer.
When a nearby business owner got suspicious, police talked to the man and ruled out that he was spying or stalking someone. However, a prosecutor filed the charge of stealing the wireless connection, the story says.
The charge was a felony punishable by up to five years in jail and a fine of up to $10,000.
His other choice was a jail diversion program, which involved paying a $400 fine, doing 40 hours of community service and being on probation for six months.
Combining idiotic laws with the proliferation of access points, how can I prove that I'm using the (paid for) T-mobile access point at the Starbucks and not the business next door? The guy in the article may have admitted using the coffee shops inet access, but that doesn't show that there's not a bigger problem with laws like this.
Before my laptop self destructed (heat issue), I had a Verizon phone card that I used all the time. In fact a few times when on-call, I would pull in to the nearest parking lot and do what I needed to do. If I had chosen to park in the parking lot near a coffee shop like this and the owner called the cops, how can I prove that I was using my own internet connection and not hijacking his? The few people who saw my Verizon card assumed it was a wifi card and had to be explained in depth how this wasn't wifi and would generally operate anywhere you could get a cell phone signal. I can only imagine explaining this to a cop.
I paid $600, 10 payments of $60 back in 1997 for a Phillips-Magnavox something or other w/5 movies I saw on TV. I was 16 and had a decent job and really liked what I had seen and later read about. It lasted for about 6 years with 3 of those years spent also acting as my CD player.
I'm never going to early adopt a Sony product; in fact I don't think I'll ever go Sony-I picked up their 4 and 8x DVD+/- drives when they came out and both were somewhat flaky in the beginning and only got worse until dying about 14-18 months later. My parents had to shell out $500 for an optical block that failed in their 52" LCD screen after 2 years,4 months.
I do hope that HD-DVD would live on as a storage format if nothing else. Anything to keep Sony from keeping a lock on the format- Imagine the digital peripherals world if the Memory Stick had beaten the other memory cards.
This is like saying that using locks on your car can leave you vulnerable. Sure, they keep casual thieves out and the newer systems keep go a long way towards preventing someone from hotwiring your car.
BUT, a mischevious person could put epoxy in all the keyholes, essentially revoking your keys and causing a denial-of-service.
Which is better, a small risk of being locked out of your data/car, or the larger risk of theft and/or misuse of your data/car due to lack of security?
So rather then deal with many times a day actual sexual abuse of young people AGAINST THEIR WILL by adults, they're choosing to put all attention, and diverting everyone else's attention, to a problem that is at least 50% the fault of the young person and happens maybe twice a month at the most.
Occasionally, adults 18-25 "lure" young girls 14-17 into sexual encounters. What usually happens is some socially inept 18-22 year old spends several weeks/months talking to a 14-16 year old online, the usually talk on the phone a bit, sometimes talk via web cam, etc. then they meet. If the older person isnt' arrested before the meeting, they sometimes have sex and everything blows up.
Despite shows like "Catch a Predator", 13-15 year old girls who have casual sex with 40 year olds they've talked to for a few hours online don't show up in news articles or in victimization reports-I'm betting they're rare to the point of extinction. More importantly, I SERIOUSLY doubt that 13-15 year olds are inviting strangers they've never talked to over the phone or seen via web cam to their homes for sex. Even the dumbest teen girls seem to have some ability to read body language and facial expressions via video and/or hear tone, inflection over audio. I don't think they're inviting total strangers to their house.
BUT, this is what we've been led to believe. We've been told there's a problem based solely on the existence of demand. We know there's no shortage of adult men willing to engage in casual sex with 13 year old girls, but we haven't been shown that there's even 1 girl willing to reciprocate for every 1000 guys.
Everybody goes nuts over this manufactured problem and take attention away from real victimization-that is young people being sexually abused against their will and without their consent. Real abuse is ignored in favor of virtually non-existent abuse. Even worse is the fact that any teen girls meeting men online for sex is going of her own free will, whether her consent is informed or not is another issue. It seem that she would bear at least 40% of the blame for anything that happens.
The persons most likely to sexually abuse young people are the same people being constantly implored to monitor their teens every move-parents, step parents, aunts/uncles, grandparents, teachers, priests, coaches, neighbors. Strange guy on the internet is somewhere above that guy that works the 7-11 on Tuesdays and Thursdays between noon and 5pm.
Suicidal terrorists usually like to take other people with them.
If they know that they'll be the only person to die they may rethink it. It probably doesn't help that their potential death will also be at the hands of those they wish to destroy.
Failing to cause any harm to the infidels and dying at their hands seems to be something a suicidal terrorist would want to avoid. I imagine it could also be demoralizing to the movement.
(somewhat off-topic) Funny that you mention ordering frisbees.
I paid the $34 to get the 8 DVD set-I like the extras and I guess I'm just a sucker.
Well, (for those of you who don't know) the packaging has all 8 DVDs stacked loosely on top of each other with little finger press things at the top and bottom to release. The design is probably cost effective, but the discs can rotate againt each other and this sure beats up the surface of the discs. The top 4 discs were well marked on the outer third/quarter and the top two discs (OS install discs-SPARC and x86 underneath) were the most marked. Copying the discs to.ISO images was a lengthy process as my usually speedy drive spent a large amount of time at 1-2x.
Scanning the discs with Nero CD-DVD speed netted a quality score was 0 as there were numerous C2 errors (Lite-on 20A1P). After reburning to another DVD, the install on a second virtual machine was much much faster.
If my only drive was sensitive, this 1st time eval install would have had me cursing Sun and their packaging.
They don't understand that one core aspect of privacy is selectiveness. Just because I disclose to the blockbuster clerk a certain piece of information doesn't entitle the government to that info, nor does that disclosure justify their extracting that info under penalty of law.
I guess if I have sex with that blockbuster clerk, I'm obligated to perform those same services on government officials and/or they're justified in demanding that I do as much. You see, I went down on her (blockbuster clerk) so I shouldn't have any problem with the police/government demanding the same treatment, right?
State issued IDs and drivers licenses are not "public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings" of the State.
Perhaps a system could be devised where you go to court and get a plastic card that has a picture of you with a court order stating that you are the person pictured and named in the photo...
My state (NV) doesn't accept IDs from any other state for the purpose of proving your identity in order to get a NV ID/DL. No lawsuits that I'm aware of.
It could be argued that current ID/DL is simply state A vouching for your identity (and driver training for a DL), yet nothing requires state B to accept state A's word. If a state has to accept another state's ID as valid identification, why wouldn't they have to accept another state's concealed weapon permit as proof that you have no felony convictions?
Licenses and permits aren't and never have been covered under the full faith and credit clause.
A driver's license does not fall under any of those categories.
States honor each other's licenses through one of several agreements among the states, known as compacts.
States are required to honor court act and judicial proceedings like divorce, marriage, child custody, name change, etc. So yes, DOMA may be unconstitutional.
States can optionally honor other states licenses ie medical, legal, firearm, etc. If you don't believe me, get a business license in Nevada and claim that California has to honor that license. Ditto for carrying a concealed weapon or opening your own law practice...
I hear the 0.0.0.0 users are at risk of being "blackholed", something I'd like to avoid.
Tip? These ladies aren't starvin to death. They make minimum wage. When I worked for minimum wage, I wasn't lucky enough to have a job that society deemed tipworthy.
Why should people outside the USA care about it if the maker can't bother to market it to one of the most consumerist nations on the planet? Marketing is a great way to let people know that you make a product.
On a side note, I don't usually find myself in the market for any GM Holdens, Citroens (spelling?), Skylines or any other car that's not marketed in the US.
Since our org is large, IT is splintered into groups that handle: securing the systems, profile administration, storage issues, other resource issues and general management issues, engineering new systems, programmers, application support (which is aligned by application vs platform unlike nearly all other groups).
So if I'm in the resource and management side, I spend my time looking at logs and answering inane, but panicked, questions about why an As400s CPU usage is so high (because there's a lot of stuff running right now)-they never bother to find out if users are being affected, it shows up on a monitor and they panic. Or diagnosing printing issues that are easily troubleshot as being exclusively on the user side and handled by another group not listed above.
So, after an hour or two of this menial nonsense, it's here to slashdot to see what else is happening in the world.
We have 9 hour days with 1 hour for lunch. It seems vitally important that you be here before 9am. Why? No clue. We're on-call every 3 weeks in my group and a backup on-call the week after and we get called at all hours of the day and night when on call (24 hour operation).
We have the burdens of being salaried, but not the benefits.
I love monster.com and have begun to love seeing my cell phone ring with a number I've never seen before (hoping it's a recruiter).
Slashdot Mirror
Pointing out the obvious:
The headline and summary aren't really accurate to the linked article.
Has anyone considered the impact this sort of thing has on Slashdot's credibility?
Maybe I'm looking at it through rose colored glasses, but I used to like reading through all the summaries and linked articles on Slashdot. Now it seems like in the last 8-12 months, more and more headlines and their accompanying sumamries are deliberately misleading and inflammatory. I skim the RSS headlines and have found myself assuming that any headline that says "Microsft does X", "Comcast now doing Y", "Verizon did Z" etc. is probably off the mark and just nother boy crying wolf. It seems that I'm right about hald the time; which is about 45% more then I should be.
Most of these "inaccuracies" seem to pander to various anti-insert-company-here sentiments - ie., Verizon has been shown to have done a bunch of shady shit regarding spying or Comcast with it's throttling/filtering/P2P blocking or whatever, so now they do something stupid and it gets twisted into something much larger and more sinister.
Yes, Verizon is moronic for not allowing customer serivce people a little latitude or for having simplistic filtering, but nowhere did I read they denied DSL. They did deny an email address though. Verizon should also probably work on dealing with people-telling someone to misspell their name in order to avoid some stupid email address name filter misses the point. BUT, everything I read suggests that he would have been ok with an email address like DrHermanIL@XXX; not that he should he have to do that though.
If Slashdot's motto was something like "It's not news, it's Slashdot", I'd make a little one line post about how the headline and linked article disagree. But with a motto of "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters", I'd expect accuracy and a little less hysteria and/or pandering.
I'm playing a game right now, so I'm really getting a kick out of these repli...Err umm... sorry, wrong site.
In Soviet Russia, games play YOU!
That's better.
Well, it can transfer around a thousand breasts per second (bps) and has a capacity of approximately one gigasnatch (gs)
BPS and GS concept ripped off from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Finnegan
The alternative methods officers have to subdue a resisting/fighting subject are nearly always more damaging. Arm bars, blows, sometimes baton or truncheon assisted, having numerous officers pile on top of the suspect, etc... In some cases the alternative might even be to shoot the suspect.
Yes, the taser has replaced the baton, 4-cell maglight, etc. and with those defensive weapons/tactics went the restraint in their deployment. That's the real problem. The police deploy tasers where they wouldn't have deployed batons, pepper spray, flashlights, etc. Now, they don't have to talk to anyone or even really consider any non-physical means to resolve the situation. Hell, they don't even explain why they're taking the actions they are (citations, arrest, etc.) They just use the taser.
I remember very clearly, a period where the taser WAS pitched as an alternative to lethal force. If a police officer faced someone with a knife or other non-firearm weapon, he now had an alternative to his firearm-the taser. It was positioned as a way to reduce death in formerly lethal situations.
I know very clearly that it was NEVER promoted as a tool of compliance or as an alternative to all other methods of subduing someone.
GTA:Rep-Detect
Go through the game as a replicant, deal in real and fake animals, stealing spinners, avoiding Blade runners, bribe/fake your way though VK tests, etc...
One nitpick-I can still use my PC while it's folding. If I sent $150 to them and didn't fold, I would still end up paying a separate amount to my power company for all the time my PC is up.
I used to leave my PC on all the time because we used it as an MP3 server and some other trivial functions. Because of that I didn't see folding@home's additioanl load as a big deal.
Now, if we could figure out how much more folding@home costs to run on a PC that's already up 24/7...
Indeed, as do the System i 595s (yeah, same hardware as the already mentioned p595).
:P are dealing with outages. "System pi"-the possibilities are endless. Stuff like that?
I don't know about AIX and Linux, but I don't believe i5/OS can actually access the entire 2TB max of the i595.
Assuming that memory limitations follows the same limitations as processors, a single partition would be able to access at least 1TB. Right now, the 595 will go up to 64 way, but i5/OS partitions have a limit of 32 processors. I'm assuming memory would be similarly limited. Still (2) 32-way 1TB machines would be nice (and unbelievably expensive).
The p/i570 is not too shabby with a 768GB limit.
On a side note, does anyone else think IBM should just consolidate the p and i systems. Perhaps call is "System pi" and come up with a bunch of goofy marketing related to pi? IE., Have your pi and eat it too-show some guy eating pie while his 'pi' system is up and the wintel people
FTA:
A Fox News story says the man parked his truck in front of the shop during lunch breaks and checked his e-mail on his laptop computer.
When a nearby business owner got suspicious, police talked to the man and ruled out that he was spying or stalking someone. However, a prosecutor filed the charge of stealing the wireless connection, the story says.
The charge was a felony punishable by up to five years in jail and a fine of up to $10,000.
His other choice was a jail diversion program, which involved paying a $400 fine, doing 40 hours of community service and being on probation for six months.
Combining idiotic laws with the proliferation of access points, how can I prove that I'm using the (paid for) T-mobile access point at the Starbucks and not the business next door? The guy in the article may have admitted using the coffee shops inet access, but that doesn't show that there's not a bigger problem with laws like this.
Before my laptop self destructed (heat issue), I had a Verizon phone card that I used all the time. In fact a few times when on-call, I would pull in to the nearest parking lot and do what I needed to do.
If I had chosen to park in the parking lot near a coffee shop like this and the owner called the cops, how can I prove that I was using my own internet connection and not hijacking his? The few people who saw my Verizon card assumed it was a wifi card and had to be explained in depth how this wasn't wifi and would generally operate anywhere you could get a cell phone signal. I can only imagine explaining this to a cop.
a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
:)
I paid $600, 10 payments of $60 back in 1997 for a Phillips-Magnavox something or other w/5 movies I saw on TV. I was 16 and had a decent job and really liked what I had seen and later read about.
It lasted for about 6 years with 3 of those years spent also acting as my CD player.
I'm never going to early adopt a Sony product; in fact I don't think I'll ever go Sony-I picked up their 4 and 8x DVD+/- drives when they came out and both were somewhat flaky in the beginning and only got worse until dying about 14-18 months later.
My parents had to shell out $500 for an optical block that failed in their 52" LCD screen after 2 years,4 months.
I do hope that HD-DVD would live on as a storage format if nothing else. Anything to keep Sony from keeping a lock on the format-
Imagine the digital peripherals world if the Memory Stick had beaten the other memory cards.
This is like saying that using locks on your car can leave you vulnerable. Sure, they keep casual thieves out and the newer systems keep go a long way towards preventing someone from hotwiring your car.
BUT, a mischevious person could put epoxy in all the keyholes, essentially revoking your keys and causing a denial-of-service.
Which is better, a small risk of being locked out of your data/car, or the larger risk of theft and/or misuse of your data/car due to lack of security?
So rather then deal with many times a day actual sexual abuse of young people AGAINST THEIR WILL by adults, they're choosing to put all attention, and diverting everyone else's attention, to a problem that is at least 50% the fault of the young person and happens maybe twice a month at the most.
Occasionally, adults 18-25 "lure" young girls 14-17 into sexual encounters. What usually happens is some socially inept 18-22 year old spends several weeks/months talking to a 14-16 year old online, the usually talk on the phone a bit, sometimes talk via web cam, etc. then they meet. If the older person isnt' arrested before the meeting, they sometimes have sex and everything blows up.
Despite shows like "Catch a Predator", 13-15 year old girls who have casual sex with 40 year olds they've talked to for a few hours online don't show up in news articles or in victimization reports-I'm betting they're rare to the point of extinction. More importantly, I SERIOUSLY doubt that 13-15 year olds are inviting strangers they've never talked to over the phone or seen via web cam to their homes for sex. Even the dumbest teen girls seem to have some ability to read body language and facial expressions via video and/or hear tone, inflection over audio. I don't think they're inviting total strangers to their house.
BUT, this is what we've been led to believe. We've been told there's a problem based solely on the existence of demand. We know there's no shortage of adult men willing to engage in casual sex with 13 year old girls, but we haven't been shown that there's even 1 girl willing to reciprocate for every 1000 guys.
Everybody goes nuts over this manufactured problem and take attention away from real victimization-that is young people being sexually abused against their will and without their consent. Real abuse is ignored in favor of virtually non-existent abuse.
Even worse is the fact that any teen girls meeting men online for sex is going of her own free will, whether her consent is informed or not is another issue. It seem that she would bear at least 40% of the blame for anything that happens.
The persons most likely to sexually abuse young people are the same people being constantly implored to monitor their teens every move-parents, step parents, aunts/uncles, grandparents, teachers, priests, coaches, neighbors. Strange guy on the internet is somewhere above that guy that works the 7-11 on Tuesdays and Thursdays between noon and 5pm.
I wonder if a fetish would develop for chest scars...
Suicidal terrorists usually like to take other people with them.
If they know that they'll be the only person to die they may rethink it. It probably doesn't help that their potential death will also be at the hands of those they wish to destroy.
Failing to cause any harm to the infidels and dying at their hands seems to be something a suicidal terrorist would want to avoid. I imagine it could also be demoralizing to the movement.
(somewhat off-topic)
.ISO images was a lengthy process as my usually speedy drive spent a large amount of time at 1-2x.
Funny that you mention ordering frisbees.
I paid the $34 to get the 8 DVD set-I like the extras and I guess I'm just a sucker.
Well, (for those of you who don't know) the packaging has all 8 DVDs stacked loosely on top of each other with little finger press things at the top and bottom to release. The design is probably cost effective, but the discs can rotate againt each other and this sure beats up the surface of the discs. The top 4 discs were well marked on the outer third/quarter and the top two discs (OS install discs-SPARC and x86 underneath) were the most marked. Copying the discs to
Scanning the discs with Nero CD-DVD speed netted a quality score was 0 as there were numerous C2 errors (Lite-on 20A1P). After reburning to another DVD, the install on a second virtual machine was much much faster.
If my only drive was sensitive, this 1st time eval install would have had me cursing Sun and their packaging.
They don't understand that one core aspect of privacy is selectiveness. Just because I disclose to the blockbuster clerk a certain piece of information doesn't entitle the government to that info, nor does that disclosure justify their extracting that info under penalty of law.
I guess if I have sex with that blockbuster clerk, I'm obligated to perform those same services on government officials and/or they're justified in demanding that I do as much. You see, I went down on her (blockbuster clerk) so I shouldn't have any problem with the police/government demanding the same treatment, right?
State issued IDs and drivers licenses are not "public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings" of the State.
Perhaps a system could be devised where you go to court and get a plastic card that has a picture of you with a court order stating that you are the person pictured and named in the photo...
My state (NV) doesn't accept IDs from any other state for the purpose of proving your identity in order to get a NV ID/DL. No lawsuits that I'm aware of.
It could be argued that current ID/DL is simply state A vouching for your identity (and driver training for a DL), yet nothing requires state B to accept state A's word. If a state has to accept another state's ID as valid identification, why wouldn't they have to accept another state's concealed weapon permit as proof that you have no felony convictions?
Licenses and permits aren't and never have been covered under the full faith and credit clause.
I think Aunty Entity's "Two men enter, one man leaves" is sufficient...
A driver's license does not fall under any of those categories.
States honor each other's licenses through one of several agreements among the states, known as compacts.
States are required to honor court act and judicial proceedings like divorce, marriage, child custody, name change, etc. So yes, DOMA may be unconstitutional.
States can optionally honor other states licenses ie medical, legal, firearm, etc. If you don't believe me, get a business license in Nevada and claim that California has to honor that license. Ditto for carrying a concealed weapon or opening your own law practice...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105236
http://www.godamongdirectors.com/scripts/reservoir.shtml
I'll take 128.0.0.0
I hear the 0.0.0.0 users are at risk of being "blackholed", something I'd like to avoid.
Tip? These ladies aren't starvin to death. They make minimum wage. When I worked for minimum wage, I wasn't lucky enough to have a job that society deemed tipworthy.
Which is probably the smartest place for them to have stayed. Pretty secure location with a reasonable amount of food and water.
It seems like all they had to do was outlast the zombies-I imagine the zombies have to die of hunger or exposure to the elements eventually.
I would have fortified the mall a bit and waited it out-maybe work on a way to get the gun store guy out of his hole and into the mall.
Why should people outside the USA care about it if the maker can't bother to market it to one of the most consumerist nations on the planet? Marketing is a great way to let people know that you make a product.
On a side note, I don't usually find myself in the market for any GM Holdens, Citroens (spelling?), Skylines or any other car that's not marketed in the US.
Mine is like this.
Since our org is large, IT is splintered into groups that handle: securing the systems, profile administration, storage issues, other resource issues and general management issues, engineering new systems, programmers, application support (which is aligned by application vs platform unlike nearly all other groups).
So if I'm in the resource and management side, I spend my time looking at logs and answering inane, but panicked, questions about why an As400s CPU usage is so high (because there's a lot of stuff running right now)-they never bother to find out if users are being affected, it shows up on a monitor and they panic. Or diagnosing printing issues that are easily troubleshot as being exclusively on the user side and handled by another group not listed above.
So, after an hour or two of this menial nonsense, it's here to slashdot to see what else is happening in the world.
We have 9 hour days with 1 hour for lunch. It seems vitally important that you be here before 9am. Why? No clue. We're on-call every 3 weeks in my group and a backup on-call the week after and we get called at all hours of the day and night when on call (24 hour operation).
We have the burdens of being salaried, but not the benefits.
I love monster.com and have begun to love seeing my cell phone ring with a number I've never seen before (hoping it's a recruiter).
Maybe they're picking quality over quantity :).
//Didn't RTFA