Let's give the voting machine contracts out to the makers of the slot machines. If anyone knows how to make an electro-mechanical device that is fraud resistant, it's those companies. Plus, just for fun, they could leave the little wheels with pictures of fruit on it.:)
I would have tried to find a way to duplicate the card a few dozen times and had my co-workers go running around the building with my card. "Umm... we see you went to the bathroom on every floor at the same time, while also leaving through the north entrance and entering the south entrance..."
Or always make sure you piggybacked with someone else when leaving the building each night. Arrive on the log, but never leave.
You'll have a hard time prying my wife away from her classic Jaguar E Type, with it's tripple SU carbs. She knows what they are, about the same as she knows what the CPU is on our PC. She couldn't tell you exactly how the thing works, but she knows it's important.
Not true in two ways.. first off, any employer can pay anyone they want overtime, wether they are required to by law is another issue. Also, the full federal wage law also states a minimum salary requirement as part of the computer professional restriction. It used to be 6x minium wage, but was locked into a $27.xx/hr limit with the last raise in overtime. California has a law that almost doubles this maximum!
Check with a lawyer in your state. Just being slaried doesn't exempt you from being paid overtime. There are several tests that must be matched to be an exempt employee.
Are you truly salaried? If you can get your work for the week done in 32 hours, and you don't show up on Friday that week, do they dock you 8 hours pay? Then you're not salaried.
Computer programmers have some other rules in the federal wage laws that don't help us though. If you make less than $27.XX an hour (6 times minimum wage at the time this was added to the law) then you are non-exempt and are required to be paid overtime. This is an effective hourly rate, even if you are paid a "salary".
If you're lucky (?) enough to live in California, this rate is $4X.XX an hour.
Also, the federal fair wage laws say that if you are non-exempt from overtime, that you can't voluntarily work unpaid time. This keeps employers from being able to claim that they didn't force you to work that extra time.
Computer professionals (this includes programmers, but not service techs, so I don't know where a QA person falls in) paid more that an effecticve hourly rate of $27.69 (regardless of salaried or hourly status) are exempted from overtime pay by federal law. California law raises this limit to $40something an hour. If you are being paid less than that, and are not a department head or officer (and fake management titles to avoid paying overtime won't hold up in court) then the law says you are to be paid 1.5 times your effective hourly rate for any hours worked in excess of 40 each week. The law even goes on to say that you cannot volunteer to work extra hours without pay. This prevents employers from claiming "they didn't force you to work those hours".
When I evaluated Safari last year, most books took up more than 1 slot in your bookshelf. Beginer, and "SQL at a glance" typee books took up 1 slot. Intermediate and pure reference books took up two, and advanced books took up 3.
Is this still the case? It made the system actual value a lot less that it initially seemed. A 5 slot shelf can only hold one advanced book and 1 reference book at a time. At $9.99/mo, I decided it was better to purchase these books.
Ok, so now the terrorists will just call the FAA and tell them they're taking their sun out to the park to launch some model rockets when they launch their stolen Hellfire missles at passing commuter planes.
99x in Atlanta has a drop of Dan saying "You are listening to 99X. In your face 98X!". He also played the fish quiz as Homer on the morning show. (The fish quiz is where they get famous guests to name as many kinds of different fish as they can in 15 seconds.)
Electric water sprinkler valves make cool trigering devices too. We built a cool two chambered paintball bazooka in college with a sprinkler valve, two doorbells (one for safty), 2 or 3 9 volts (I forget the voltage requirements for the valves), some PVC and a truck tire valve stem. Later, the valve stem was replaced with a paintball CO2 tank and a low pressure regulator. It would fire a water baloon several hundred yards, or paintball grapeshot like a shotgun.
>Texas has a section in the Penal code for >firearms which makes anything that has a barrel >and fires a projectile with expanding gas (other >than hand-compressed gas and CO2 cartriges, i.e. >chemical propellants) an illegal weapon, no >matter what the projectile is.
So does this mean that no one in Texas uses nitrogen for their paintball guns? Or are they required to pump the nitrogen up to working pressure by hand? 4500+psi might take a while with your average bicycle pump.
Why not just send and store a lot of decoy payloads encrypted with decoy keys of the same strength as the legit key? It takes a year and $10M to decrypt a 1024 key? Fine. For every valid key I use, I'll pass around 5-10 random messages with throwaway keys.
I'm not the original author, I just modified it to be a Saab and a sauna. I think I originally heard it as either a Yugo or Volvo and it was a shower, not a sauna.
This man in a Saab 900 pulls up next to a guy in a Rolls Royce at a stop sign.
Their windows are open and he yells at the guy in the Rolls: "Hey, you got a telephone in that Rolls?"
The guy in the Rolls says, "Yes, of course I do."
"I got one too... see?"
"Uh, huh, yes, that's very nice."
"You got a fax machine?"
"Why, actually, yes, I do."
"I do too! See? It's right here!"
"Uh-huh."
The light is just about to turn green and the guy in the Saab says," So, do you have a double bed in back there?"
And the guy in the Rolls says, "No! Do you?"
"Yep, got my double bed right in back here see?!" The light turns and the man in the Saab takes off.
Well, the guy in the Rolls is not about to be one-upped, so he goes immediately to a customizing shop and orders them to put a double bed in back of his car.
About two weeks later, the job is finally done and he picks up his car and drives all over town looking for the Saab. He finally finds it parked alongside the road so he pulls his Rolls up next to it.
The windows on the Saab are all fogged up and he feels a little awkward about it, but he gets out of his newly modified Rolls and taps on the foggy window of the Saab.
The man in the Saab finally opens the window a crack and peeks out.
The guy in the Rolls says, "Hey. Remember me?"
"Yeah, yeah, I remember you. What's up?"
"Check this out... I got a double bed installed in my Rolls."
And the man in the Saab says, You got me out of the sauna to tell me that?!"
> Product placement can be very well done and >entertaining in itself, and the only limit to >turning a Pepsi spot into a full feature movie >is the director's imagination. >Is this the future of digital media art?
Se BMWFilms.Com These were originally only shown from the web site, but in the last several month, I've seen some of the better ones on cable television. Nothing more than 15 minute BWM comercials.
You don't have any problem with content that was paid for by advertising. What's wrong with you providing the content provider with a little basic demographic information to aid them in selling that advertising?
Content Provider: We have a web site. People read it. Pay us, and we'll put your ads on it.
Ad Providers: Who exactly are these people who read it? Are they likely to buy our products?
Content Providers: Ummm... uhhh.. yes?
OR
Content Providers: Here are the demographics of our user base.
That's interesting. Yahoo Groups on the other hand are very good about removing email addresses of members who bounce messages. I'm constantly re-activating memberships for members who use free (small inbox) email, or went on vacation and had their inbox fill up.
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Maybe he should make the following case mod, then he could justify a UPS for his fish.
Let's give the voting machine contracts out to the makers of the slot machines. If anyone knows how to make an electro-mechanical device that is fraud resistant, it's those companies. Plus, just for fun, they could leave the little wheels with pictures of fruit on it. :)
I would have tried to find a way to duplicate the card a few dozen times and had my co-workers go running around the building with my card. "Umm... we see you went to the bathroom on every floor at the same time, while also leaving through the north entrance and entering the south entrance..."
Or always make sure you piggybacked with someone else when leaving the building each night. Arrive on the log, but never leave.
>If they really wanted to make it easier they'd
>include a standard communications port on-board
>and sell the software to run the diagnostics on
>any capable PC.
You mean like OBD and OBD2 ports on all newer vehicles?
You'll have a hard time prying my wife away from her classic Jaguar E Type, with it's tripple SU carbs. She knows what they are, about the same as she knows what the CPU is on our PC. She couldn't tell you exactly how the thing works, but she knows it's important.
> You can't get overtime as a salaried
> programmer. I am really sorry.
Not true in two ways.. first off, any employer can pay anyone they want overtime, wether they are required to by law is another issue. Also, the full federal wage law also states a minimum salary requirement as part of the computer professional restriction. It used to be 6x minium wage, but was locked into a $27.xx/hr limit with the last raise in overtime. California has a law that almost doubles this maximum!
The Cuckoo's Egg? It was mostly non-fiction. I don't remember a tennis shoe part, but it's been ages since I read it.
Check with a lawyer in your state. Just being slaried doesn't exempt you from being paid overtime. There are several tests that must be matched to be an exempt employee.
Are you truly salaried? If you can get your work for the week done in 32 hours, and you don't show up on Friday that week, do they dock you 8 hours pay? Then you're not salaried.
Computer programmers have some other rules in the federal wage laws that don't help us though. If you make less than $27.XX an hour (6 times minimum wage at the time this was added to the law) then you are non-exempt and are required to be paid overtime. This is an effective hourly rate, even if you are paid a "salary".
If you're lucky (?) enough to live in California, this rate is $4X.XX an hour.
Also, the federal fair wage laws say that if you are non-exempt from overtime, that you can't voluntarily work unpaid time. This keeps employers from being able to claim that they didn't force you to work that extra time.
Good luck!
Computer professionals (this includes programmers, but not service techs, so I don't know where a QA person falls in) paid more that an effecticve hourly rate of $27.69 (regardless of salaried or hourly status) are exempted from overtime pay by federal law. California law raises this limit to $40something an hour. If you are being paid less than that, and are not a department head or officer (and fake management titles to avoid paying overtime won't hold up in court) then the law says you are to be paid 1.5 times your effective hourly rate for any hours worked in excess of 40 each week. The law even goes on to say that you cannot volunteer to work extra hours without pay. This prevents employers from claiming "they didn't force you to work those hours".
Money spent on doesn't disappear.. it circulates through the economy.
I pay my vet a lot of money to take care of sick animals. My vet employees several employees and some interns.
Those interns have school bills to pay. The vet school funds research activity that may lead to a better quality of life for humans and animals alike.
My vet and her employees buy groceries, which keeps the local grocer in business, which allows him to pay his employees, etc, etc..
Money is never wasted unless it goes unspent.
When I evaluated Safari last year, most books took up more than 1 slot in your bookshelf. Beginer, and "SQL at a glance" typee books took up 1 slot. Intermediate and pure reference books took up two, and advanced books took up 3.
Is this still the case? It made the system actual value a lot less that it initially seemed. A 5 slot shelf can only hold one advanced book and 1 reference book at a time. At $9.99/mo, I decided it was better to purchase these books.
Ok, so now the terrorists will just call the FAA and tell them they're taking their sun out to the park to launch some model rockets when they launch their stolen Hellfire missles at passing commuter planes.
Acording to tradition, the last guy to break the build has to stay late and babysit the build process.
:) Build breaks go way down as teams approach 10+ members.
In my office, you break the build, you buy a round of beer for every member of the team.
>and then she typed a command with 6 pipes and >more punctuation than letters, but that wasn't >on camera)
Sounds like a Perl script to me...
99x in Atlanta has a drop of Dan saying "You are listening to 99X. In your face 98X!". He also played the fish quiz as Homer on the morning show. (The fish quiz is where they get famous guests to name as many kinds of different fish as they can in 15 seconds.)
Did someone turn of comments or something?
Electric water sprinkler valves make cool trigering devices too. We built a cool two chambered paintball bazooka in college with a sprinkler valve, two doorbells (one for safty), 2 or 3 9 volts (I forget the voltage requirements for the valves), some PVC and a truck tire valve stem. Later, the valve stem was replaced with a paintball CO2 tank and a low pressure regulator. It would fire a water baloon several hundred yards, or paintball grapeshot like a shotgun.
>Texas has a section in the Penal code for
>firearms which makes anything that has a barrel
>and fires a projectile with expanding gas (other
>than hand-compressed gas and CO2 cartriges, i.e.
>chemical propellants) an illegal weapon, no
>matter what the projectile is.
So does this mean that no one in Texas uses nitrogen for their paintball guns? Or are they required to pump the nitrogen up to working pressure by hand? 4500+psi might take a while with your average bicycle pump.
Why not just send and store a lot of decoy payloads encrypted with decoy keys of the same strength as the legit key? It takes a year and $10M to decrypt a 1024 key? Fine. For every valid key I use, I'll pass around 5-10 random messages with throwaway keys.
>who knows what was on those machines!
:)
Well, nobody does now! You people and your morals. You could have at least lied and told me it was something juicy.
I'm not the original author, I just modified it to be a Saab and a sauna. I think I originally heard it as either a Yugo or Volvo and it was a shower, not a sauna.
This man in a Saab 900 pulls up next to a guy in a Rolls Royce at a stop sign.
Their windows are open and he yells at the guy in the Rolls: "Hey, you got a telephone in that Rolls?"
The guy in the Rolls says, "Yes, of course I do."
"I got one too... see?"
"Uh, huh, yes, that's very nice."
"You got a fax machine?"
"Why, actually, yes, I do."
"I do too! See? It's right here!"
"Uh-huh."
The light is just about to turn green and the guy in the Saab says," So, do you have a double bed in back there?"
And the guy in the Rolls says, "No! Do you?"
"Yep, got my double bed right in back here see?!" The light turns and the man in the Saab takes off.
Well, the guy in the Rolls is not about to be one-upped, so he goes immediately to a customizing shop and orders them to put a double bed in back of his car.
About two weeks later, the job is finally done and he picks up his car and drives all over town looking for the Saab. He finally finds it parked alongside the road so he pulls his Rolls up next to it.
The windows on the Saab are all fogged up and he feels a little awkward about it, but he gets out of his newly modified Rolls and taps on the foggy window of the Saab.
The man in the Saab finally opens the window a crack and peeks out.
The guy in the Rolls says, "Hey. Remember me?"
"Yeah, yeah, I remember you. What's up?"
"Check this out... I got a double bed installed in my Rolls."
And the man in the Saab says, You got me out of the sauna to tell me that?!"
> Product placement can be very well done and >entertaining in itself, and the only limit to >turning a Pepsi spot into a full feature movie >is the director's imagination.
>Is this the future of digital media art?
Se BMWFilms.Com
These were originally only shown from the web site, but in the last several month, I've seen some of the better ones on cable television. Nothing more than 15 minute BWM comercials.
You don't have any problem with content that was paid for by advertising. What's wrong with you providing the content provider with a little basic demographic information to aid them in selling that advertising?
Content Provider: We have a web site. People read it. Pay us, and we'll put your ads on it.
Ad Providers: Who exactly are these people who read it? Are they likely to buy our products?
Content Providers: Ummm... uhhh.. yes?
OR
Content Providers: Here are the demographics of our user base.
That's interesting. Yahoo Groups on the other hand are very good about removing email addresses of members who bounce messages. I'm constantly re-activating memberships for members who use free (small inbox) email, or went on vacation and had their inbox fill up.