We are a mid-sized plain vanilla type engineering and tech company and all our work laptops are issued with full disk encryption. It's no big deal, just one more password when you log on. It seems common enough and no big problem to implement or manage.
Fanboi and pedant all in one. How efficient of you
iTouch - common nickname for iPod Touch. Based on word usage patterns around here, especially by the kids under 15 who are the most likely owners of one, there is only iTouch. Note that it also common to call any mp3 player an ipod, as in "My mom has a SanDisk ipod she got at Costco"
I hear this from time to time and I really wonder. I usually find that the value of a thing is what people are willing to pay for it. How does one determine the "True Value" of something?
We always need new euphemisms. As one word becomes socially unacceptable we find another word, slightly more indirect, to replace it. Over time the euphemism is tainted by direct association with its subject and is in turn replaced. The word "Nigger" used to be perfectly socially acceptable. It was eventually replaced by "Negro" and then "Coloured" and "Black". Now we mostly use "Person of Color" or "African American". In time these words will also be replaced by something new. Or, who knows, maybe one day, skin color won't matter any more.
Another sighting of the crippled black lesbian midget.
When I was working for $large_transportation_company they used to include a sentence in all job postings to the effect that women, aboriginal people, visible minorities, disabled people and other traditionally disadvantaged groups are especially encouraged to apply. The joke at the time was that they were still looking for the lesbian eskimo in a wheelchair.
There are 2 big historical reasons why Canada has less Black vs White racism than the USA, and it's not that we are somehow better people than the Americans.
1. Canada was part of the British Empire, which abolished slavery 30 years earlier than the US.
2. It's too fucking cold to grow cotton here. (No shit!), so we never had the large scale plantation agriculture of the US South. Our population of black ex slaves was something like 4000 people after abolition, in the US it was 4 million. We had no problem absorbing them into the general population, whereas in the US their numbers made them a threat to be rigorously suppressed.
The guy thrashed his own child while in a frothing fit of rage. He beat her mercilessly for almost 10 minutes. This is not punishment, it is torture and sadism with very disturbing sexual overtones.
Violence is almost never justified except in self defense. This kind of assault on a child can not be justified for any reason.
I don't claim to be any shining paragon of virtue. I've certainly done things I'm not proud of, but on that Last Day when my grimy little soul is judged at least I'll be able to say that I never hit my kids.
Dude, you are the answer to my prayers. How do I fix these problems? Also how do I attach an iphone picture to a good email? One more, how do I turn off off the sound alert for incoming emails without also turning off the sound alert for appointments. Remember, I don't have android, I have iPhone.
My new iPhone has built in email contacts and calendar. I point it at our exchange server and give it my password and it "just works". "Well holy shit", says the IT dept, "that just won't do". "We can't have users looking after themselves" So they tell me I need to get "Good" mail. First I have to buy a license to use it, and then they dick around a week getting it to work. Now my email is "secure", because we just can't run the risk of the KGB finding out when I'm having lunch next Thursday, or how many meters of #6 cable we buried last week. How is this better you say? I'll tell you. Before Good, my phone would go ding, I would look at the screen and see "Meeting with Fred, 11:30, big boardroom". Now I get a ding, and my screen says "Event!" I unlock my phone, I open the Good app. I enter my Good password. I wait 30 seconds while things are decrypting. Finally the app opens fully. I push the button for calendar and see "Meeting with Fred, 11:30, big boardroom. The entire process now takes 45 seconds, where it used to take 0 seconds.
The badge for unread emails used to tell me how many unread emails I had. Now with Good mail, it increments with every new mail received. Then if I read the email on the computer, it increments again. Yes, that's right. If I receive 5 mails and read them on my computer my phone now says I have 10 unread mails. (Apparently it is not our IT dept's fault that this "Good mail app" they have forced on me sucks so bad. It's all Apples fault, just ask our IT guys, they'll tell you.)
Admitting you don't know something is admirable. Not knowing can be remedied. It is a lot better than pretending you know something when you don't.
Being actually proud of not knowing something is unfathomable to me. Nobody goes around boasting they can't read, or don't know how to use flush toilets. I don't know whether to pity them or despise them or both.
On the off chance that a woman is reading slashdot right now; care to explain this phenomenon to us males. I don't know any men who do this or any women who don't. What is it about having ovaries that makes a person treat an infinitely adjustable feedback temperature control element like a binary on-off switch?
Software Engineer is a (very) small subset of Programmer. Can you guarantee your code is bug free? Can people trust their lives to it working correctly? Or, at the very least, can you guarantee that if your code fails, the system will always go to a more safe state rather than a less safe state? If so, you might be a software engineer. If not, you probably aren't.
I agree that there are criminals who could do with killing. Clifford Robert Olson for one, and I could probably think of a few more I would not hesitate to have the state kill, because I really don't think they are human beings.
For me the the problem with the death penalty is the false positives. No matter how you set up your criteria for executing somebody, you will from time to time execute an innocent man. If you're ok with that then you can support the death penalty, but for me that is an unaceptable byproduct of allowing death penalty.
I've been subscribing for about 10 years to a local cable Co / ISP that was lately bought by Eastlink. When I got my HD cable box they upgraded me (for free) from 4.5 Mb/s to 15 Mb/s. Two days ago I got a letter advising that since they have completed the fiber deployment in my neighborhood they are upgrading me (again for free) to 40 Mb/s. Undisclaimer - I don't work for Eastlink or own shares, just a satisfied customer.
If you had stopped after your third sentence you would have been ok. Noob questions are allowed and may be answered politely. But when you add the typical slashdot condescending remark "a nice idea but not really thought through carefully" while asking a question that demonstrates your lack of even basic knowledge of antennas you just invite my sort of reply.
(Smug) Herp. Derp. I guess we can't all be electrical engineers (/smug).
It is indeed a 2 way street. Any change to an antenna that increases its transmit gain also increases its receive gain. The reflector sends more of the transmitted signal towards your client (if it is in front of the reflector) and also gathers more of the client signal and focuses it on the antenna, thereby equally increasing the received signal.
We used to idly muse about a cron job. Actually, not just a cron job, but "THE" cron job. If you didn't reset it once in a while it would go off and cause havoc. That way if they fired you while you were on vacation and cancelled your building pass while you were away, the cron job would eventually exact your grievous revenge. If they fired you in the fashion of civilized people (severance pay, good references and a going away party), you could always delete the cron job before you left. We figured subtle corruption of backups was least likely to be detected, and after 6 months or a year of that you could wipe all the live systems, and there would be no usable backup. In reality this was just idle talk, no one was really serious. Only an idiot burns bridges.
Your transit trains have conductors. How quaint. Do they have shiny buttons on their uniforms? In Vancouver the transit trains have been driverless for 25 years.
Seriously? You are either a medal winning combat shooter or completely clueless. A leg is six inches wide and moving fast. Are you willing to bet your life on your ability to hit that target, and on the likelihood that your shot will stop the guy coming at you with the knife? Remember that your kids will be orphaned and your wife will be a widow if you're wrong.
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Why would your wife need to have an account on your work computer? I'm not sure I understand the point of your post!
We are a mid-sized plain vanilla type engineering and tech company and all our work laptops are issued with full disk encryption. It's no big deal, just one more password when you log on. It seems common enough and no big problem to implement or manage.
Fanboi and pedant all in one. How efficient of you
iTouch - common nickname for iPod Touch. Based on word usage patterns around here, especially by the kids under 15 who are the most likely owners of one, there is only iTouch. Note that it also common to call any mp3 player an ipod, as in "My mom has a SanDisk ipod she got at Costco"
I hear this from time to time and I really wonder. I usually find that the value of a thing is what people are willing to pay for it. How does one determine the "True Value" of something?
Tiger Woods is black. V J Singh is not. Now do you understand?
We always need new euphemisms. As one word becomes socially unacceptable we find another word, slightly more indirect, to replace it. Over time the euphemism is tainted by direct association with its subject and is in turn replaced. The word "Nigger" used to be perfectly socially acceptable. It was eventually replaced by "Negro" and then "Coloured" and "Black". Now we mostly use "Person of Color" or "African American". In time these words will also be replaced by something new. Or, who knows, maybe one day, skin color won't matter any more.
Another sighting of the crippled black lesbian midget.
When I was working for $large_transportation_company they used to include a sentence in all job postings to the effect that women, aboriginal people, visible minorities, disabled people and other traditionally disadvantaged groups are especially encouraged to apply. The joke at the time was that they were still looking for the lesbian eskimo in a wheelchair.
There are 2 big historical reasons why Canada has less Black vs White racism than the USA, and it's not that we are somehow better people than the Americans.
1. Canada was part of the British Empire, which abolished slavery 30 years earlier than the US.
2. It's too fucking cold to grow cotton here. (No shit!), so we never had the large scale plantation agriculture of the US South. Our population of black ex slaves was something like 4000 people after abolition, in the US it was 4 million. We had no problem absorbing them into the general population, whereas in the US their numbers made them a threat to be rigorously suppressed.
The guy thrashed his own child while in a frothing fit of rage. He beat her mercilessly for almost 10 minutes. This is not punishment, it is torture and sadism with very disturbing sexual overtones.
Violence is almost never justified except in self defense. This kind of assault on a child can not be justified for any reason.
I don't claim to be any shining paragon of virtue. I've certainly done things I'm not proud of, but on that Last Day when my grimy little soul is judged at least I'll be able to say that I never hit my kids.
Dude, you are the answer to my prayers. How do I fix these problems? Also how do I attach an iphone picture to a good email? One more, how do I turn off off the sound alert for incoming emails without also turning off the sound alert for appointments. Remember, I don't have android, I have iPhone.
Why do you assume I said anything to my IT folks? I never said a word.
Here is what happens when IT meets consumer tech.
My new iPhone has built in email contacts and calendar. I point it at our exchange server and give it my password and it "just works". "Well holy shit", says the IT dept, "that just won't do". "We can't have users looking after themselves" So they tell me I need to get "Good" mail. First I have to buy a license to use it, and then they dick around a week getting it to work. Now my email is "secure", because we just can't run the risk of the KGB finding out when I'm having lunch next Thursday, or how many meters of #6 cable we buried last week. How is this better you say? I'll tell you. Before Good, my phone would go ding, I would look at the screen and see "Meeting with Fred, 11:30, big boardroom". Now I get a ding, and my screen says "Event!" I unlock my phone, I open the Good app. I enter my Good password. I wait 30 seconds while things are decrypting. Finally the app opens fully. I push the button for calendar and see "Meeting with Fred, 11:30, big boardroom. The entire process now takes 45 seconds, where it used to take 0 seconds.
The badge for unread emails used to tell me how many unread emails I had. Now with Good mail, it increments with every new mail received. Then if I read the email on the computer, it increments again. Yes, that's right. If I receive 5 mails and read them on my computer my phone now says I have 10 unread mails. (Apparently it is not our IT dept's fault that this "Good mail app" they have forced on me sucks so bad. It's all Apples fault, just ask our IT guys, they'll tell you.)
Admitting you don't know something is admirable. Not knowing can be remedied. It is a lot better than pretending you know something when you don't.
Being actually proud of not knowing something is unfathomable to me. Nobody goes around boasting they can't read, or don't know how to use flush toilets. I don't know whether to pity them or despise them or both.
On the off chance that a woman is reading slashdot right now; care to explain this phenomenon to us males. I don't know any men who do this or any women who don't. What is it about having ovaries that makes a person treat an infinitely adjustable feedback temperature control element like a binary on-off switch?
Software Engineer is a (very) small subset of Programmer. Can you guarantee your code is bug free? Can people trust their lives to it working correctly? Or, at the very least, can you guarantee that if your code fails, the system will always go to a more safe state rather than a less safe state? If so, you might be a software engineer. If not, you probably aren't.
One of his lackeys said they were ok for preventing the spread of AIDS. They are most certainly not approved by him for birth control..
percentile??? Don't you mean percentage?
I agree that there are criminals who could do with killing. Clifford Robert Olson for one, and I could probably think of a few more I would not hesitate to have the state kill, because I really don't think they are human beings.
For me the the problem with the death penalty is the false positives. No matter how you set up your criteria for executing somebody, you will from time to time execute an innocent man. If you're ok with that then you can support the death penalty, but for me that is an unaceptable byproduct of allowing death penalty.
I've been subscribing for about 10 years to a local cable Co / ISP that was lately bought by Eastlink. When I got my HD cable box they upgraded me (for free) from 4.5 Mb/s to 15 Mb/s. Two days ago I got a letter advising that since they have completed the fiber deployment in my neighborhood they are upgrading me (again for free) to 40 Mb/s. Undisclaimer - I don't work for Eastlink or own shares, just a satisfied customer.
If you had stopped after your third sentence you would have been ok. Noob questions are allowed and may be answered politely. But when you add the typical slashdot condescending remark "a nice idea but not really thought through carefully" while asking a question that demonstrates your lack of even basic knowledge of antennas you just invite my sort of reply.
(Smug) Herp. Derp. I guess we can't all be electrical engineers (/smug).
It is indeed a 2 way street. Any change to an antenna that increases its transmit gain also increases its receive gain. The reflector sends more of the transmitted signal towards your client (if it is in front of the reflector) and also gathers more of the client signal and focuses it on the antenna, thereby equally increasing the received signal.
"WHO NEEDS CHEERLEADERS NOW, HUH!!!?" thank you for that Mr. C. You made my day.
Hear Hear
We used to idly muse about a cron job. Actually, not just a cron job, but "THE" cron job. If you didn't reset it once in a while it would go off and cause havoc. That way if they fired you while you were on vacation and cancelled your building pass while you were away, the cron job would eventually exact your grievous revenge. If they fired you in the fashion of civilized people (severance pay, good references and a going away party), you could always delete the cron job before you left. We figured subtle corruption of backups was least likely to be detected, and after 6 months or a year of that you could wipe all the live systems, and there would be no usable backup. In reality this was just idle talk, no one was really serious. Only an idiot burns bridges.
Your transit trains have conductors. How quaint. Do they have shiny buttons on their uniforms? In Vancouver the transit trains have been driverless for 25 years.
Seriously? You are either a medal winning combat shooter or completely clueless. A leg is six inches wide and moving fast. Are you willing to bet your life on your ability to hit that target, and on the likelihood that your shot will stop the guy coming at you with the knife? Remember that your kids will be orphaned and your wife will be a widow if you're wrong.