You can train people skills too: you sit your problem employee down and tell him exactly what your expectations for personal behavior are, and what you need him to do differently. You be specific about what behavior is inappropriate or problematic, and tell him what you need him to do differently. If you start seeing changes in the right direction, you encourage it by telling him what he did right.
Yep, but you have to be specific and use direct language. Say "Bob, turn the heat down", not "It's hot in here", and expect Bob to adjust the thermostat. Avoid idioms. Sometimes to get the point across to a techy, you have to put aside your "normal" people skills. Also, remember, the techs might value shiny objects more than recognition or a salary bump.
I worked at a place once, where what I needed and wanted was a multiple large monitor setup, and an office with a door, both would have cost the company an extra $3k a year. I didn't get that, what I got was an $8K raise, which my wife spent. (and it's against the company rules for me to buy my own hardware and bring it in, or to squat in an empty office)
What's your standard reply? I like $400/hour, 4 hour minimum + expenses, but that might be too low for you.
My dad worked for the government for years. One of his buddies was talking to a recruiter, when the recruiter asked, "What will it take for you to come work for us." The guy answered something like 3x his current salary. Later the guy came back with "How about 2.8x salary?". He took the job.
Always have an absurdly high number available. If the fish bite, reel them in.
I've found many employers want Rumpelstiltskin workers. i.e. someone who can do anything and everything, but they don't have to pay squat. I've even worked places where they found them, i.e. in the University town, you can hire students and spouses of grad students that have enormous skills, but you don't have to pay them much more than minimum wage, because supply outstrips demand.
Isn't that reason enough? What happened to ambition, curiosity, and doing things "because it's there?"
It never existed in the first place*. Early colonists were either leaving horrible conditions, or wanted to exploit the new world for its riches.
If space travel becomes cheap enough, and the new worlds profitable enough, there will be a land rush.
*Oh, there were a few rich kids that wanted to become "explorers", and climb mountains, but they came after the new worlds were exploited and there was enough extra money to finance their explorations.
...We don't need a system where I become a millionaire, but it does need to be enough that I can make music (or books, or any other form of art) my occupation rather than my hobby, if I'm good enough.
We *need* a system where everyone has access to shelter, food, water and health care. We *want* books, movies, music and other entertainment.
If someone is convicted of a crime, then it's perfectly reasonable for them to get elected and change the law, so that whatever they were convicted on wasn't a crime. (Not that *that* happens in real life, but it's a great political theory)
They could only go after the websites that had a business presence in New York State. So, all websites that have a comments section would leave the state. Sites like the New York Times, would have to subcontract out their comments section to the Caymen Islands.
In the US, you can call yourself anything you want to, as long as you aren't trying to defraud someone. While they *might* be able to enforce this for NY residents, people who live in other states or countries would be free to do as they pleased.
I'm Jim Conte, you're Jim Conte, we're all JC. If this bill passes, I propose that slashdot change "Anonymous Coward" to "Jim Conte"
(Oh, I see, he just wants to go down in history with Ted "Series of Tubes" Stevens, and Santorum)
It was social engineering. Encryption cannot help with human gullibility.
Yes, it can. If you data is unencrypted anyone can give it out. You use encryption along with policy so that only those that need to know can get the information. For really sensitive information, you make sure that multiple people have to each add their password before the information is allowed to be accessed.
You can also use encryption to insure that machine 'A' can talk to machine 'B' using large certs, but no human has direct access.
Even better. Put a big red button on your computer, with a lighted sign above it. "Push to Test". When the button it pressed, the lighted sign changes to "Release to Detonate"
This was tried back in the day, by an guy in LA (I think). He paid people to watch specific channels at specific times, and press a button during the commercials. Then, he sold a device and service to people that would pause their VCRs during the commercials.
Dude committed "Suicide" before his service could take off. Take your own lesson from this.
but that doesn't seem to stop anyone. I've found that marketing rarely has ever been able to prove that the money they spend actually generates returns.
Most of the "Proof" is kept secret. Companies all the time try an ad campaign in just one market before going national. That, and hiring people to view ads while eye tracking and what is essentially a polygraph to monitor their responses to specific ads.
The problem is, even if the marketroids do science, it's a master marketer that sells his ads to the company. (internal or external) Even if the science says one thing, he's going to spin it so that he gets paid the most he can get.
Yes, the Marketing Department does science. No, that science will not help you unless your well being coincides with the well being of the marketers.
Try a local "Dollar" type store. Mine carries LR44s and some other type at 10/$1.00, the same cell that costs over $3.00 each at target.
Also, never buy a device that could take AA or AAA but instead takes button cells. Eschew those button cell flashlights, if you around, you can find a good penlight that takes one AAA.
A file system *is* a database. If your flatfile is just a little too big, you can very efficiently break your data up by putting the 'A' records in fileA, the 'B' records into fileB, and so on. If you need a one-off query, grep and sed are your friends.
If you have a Terabyte of data that needs to be indexed six ways to Sunday, then a database is the way to go. But for small quantities of data, flat files can't be beat. (An "small" is getting bigger every day)
Indeed, my best pan is a 9" cast iron skillet that is about 150 years old, and that's no exaggeration. Its not as non stick as teflon is, but its pretty damned good. Came over on a wagon train....
Not only that, but it's hard to find a good new cast iron pan that's as good as an antique Wagner or Griswold. I've considered buying a new pan, then machining it smooth.
The thing is, teflon pans are only very non-stick when they are new, after they begin to peel, you have to throw them away. If my cast iron pans are misused, I just scrub them with a little vinegar, then re-season them in the outdoor grill.
An FDA type agency is necessary to prevent snake-oil salespeople, but, yes, they shouldn't be in the business of telling people what to or not to put in their own bodies. You'd think Roe-v-Wade could be generalized to this, but no.
If an adult wants to inject used motor oil into their veins, more power to them. But if someone tries to sell used motor oil as "Magic Tree Oil" that will cure cancer, then it time for someone to force them to offer proof.
Dennis Robertson, M.D., Mayo Clinic ophthalmologist, conducted investigations with a green laser pointer directed to the retina of a patient’s eye; the eye was scheduled for removal because of a malignancy. The green laser damaged the pigment layer of the retina...
This was a "street legal" 5mw laser pointer. A misplaced 50mw beam will cause damage to your eyes, probably in the form of microspots, because laser light is will focused by your eye's lens. Unfortunately the brain will fill in microspots in the retina until there are too many, or you get too old, then you have vision problems.
The moral: Beware friggin sharks carrying friggin lasers.
Hadn't thought of it in that context, but yes, the drone could have been intentionally crashed to detect holes in Iranian defenses. A flying Trojan Horse.
Most likely, the software wiped itself when the thing crashed, but it's not impossible that the drone had redundant copies of the flight software. Except one "copy" has the buggy or Trojan software and on crashing, the bogus version was moved into the flight areas. Or, there was a thermite charge above the brain, that slagged it down.
But, there is no one reality. Consider the case of a devout North Korean. It's probably the most sane thing for him to spout the party line when in NK, but tranfer him to New York City, and if he acts upon his beliefs, he'll be arrested or committed.
Shamenism will often involve the use of drugs or stress to introduce "altered states". During this altered state, the person might not recognize reality, but upon return they can interact with our world.
I've never met anyone that didn't believe in at least one thing that defies "reality". Usually, they can still navigate the real world. Imagine a person whose voices in their heads say to them, "Eat your broccoli, brush your teeth", but not excessively. That person would be able to interact with the real world without difficulty, but can you really call them sane?
Modular refueling would be useful. Sometimes the only thing that dictates the life of a geo sat is the station keeping fuel supply. When it's about to run out, a geo sat is put into a graveyard orbit, where it's not supposed to hurt anything. If you could send up a small fuel supply ship that could pull a few sats from the graveyard, put the good parts together with perhaps new batteries and gyroscopes, you could get a much bigger satellite than if you had to launch a brand new one.
If you built your satellites with a fuel/engine section that had the gyros and anything that normally wears out, a solar panel section, and payload sections, so that you could pull them apart and put them back together Lego style, this idea might be workable.
Because if they do, we will have backdoors into their spy satellites. Plugging a found USB drive you find in your company parking lot into your computer is an iffy proposition, plugging something into your satellite is just foolhardy. Best case, it's a bomb, worst case it's a monitoring device.
The youth vote got JFK into power. "They" shot him.
Those kids who voted for JFK *are* in power now. Age has a tendency to conservatize people, but a more important lesson is from California prop 19, that failed to legalize pot. Even pot growers actively campaigned against it, because they didn't want the competition.
A conservative wants things to remain the same. A person whose livelyhood is breaking the law, can also be conservative. He just has to delude himself into thinking that he'll never get caught.
Yup, and the dude that provides that "answer" doesn't even have to believe in it himself, he just has to profit from it.
There's a lot of hokum in the financial markets, it does lead to economic meltdown, and afterwards everyone just picks themselves up and follows the next money guru.
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You can train people skills too: you sit your problem employee down and tell him exactly what your expectations for personal behavior are, and what you need him to do differently. You be specific about what behavior is inappropriate or problematic, and tell him what you need him to do differently. If you start seeing changes in the right direction, you encourage it by telling him what he did right.
Yep, but you have to be specific and use direct language. Say "Bob, turn the heat down", not "It's hot in here", and expect Bob to adjust the thermostat. Avoid idioms. Sometimes to get the point across to a techy, you have to put aside your "normal" people skills. Also, remember, the techs might value shiny objects more than recognition or a salary bump.
I worked at a place once, where what I needed and wanted was a multiple large monitor setup, and an office with a door, both would have cost the company an extra $3k a year. I didn't get that, what I got was an $8K raise, which my wife spent. (and it's against the company rules for me to buy my own hardware and bring it in, or to squat in an empty office)
What's your standard reply? I like $400/hour, 4 hour minimum + expenses, but that might be too low for you.
My dad worked for the government for years. One of his buddies was talking to a recruiter, when the recruiter asked, "What will it take for you to come work for us." The guy answered something like 3x his current salary. Later the guy came back with "How about 2.8x salary?". He took the job.
Always have an absurdly high number available. If the fish bite, reel them in.
I've found many employers want Rumpelstiltskin workers. i.e. someone who can do anything and everything, but they don't have to pay squat. I've even worked places where they found them, i.e. in the University town, you can hire students and spouses of grad students that have enormous skills, but you don't have to pay them much more than minimum wage, because supply outstrips demand.
Olympics vs. War.
Even the ancient greeks knew that competition was important, and games less destructive than fighting.
In a proper competition, both sides are better for it.
Isn't that reason enough? What happened to ambition, curiosity, and doing things "because it's there?"
It never existed in the first place*. Early colonists were either leaving horrible conditions, or wanted to exploit the new world for its riches.
If space travel becomes cheap enough, and the new worlds profitable enough, there will be a land rush.
*Oh, there were a few rich kids that wanted to become "explorers", and climb mountains, but they came after the new worlds were exploited and there was enough extra money to finance their explorations.
...We don't need a system where I become a millionaire, but it does need to be enough that I can make music (or books, or any other form of art) my occupation rather than my hobby, if I'm good enough.
We *need* a system where everyone has access to shelter, food, water and health care. We *want* books, movies, music and other entertainment.
... I promise not to crack under the strain.
Which disqualifies you for the role...
No, it doesn't, and for a good reason.
If someone is convicted of a crime, then it's perfectly reasonable for them to get elected and change the law, so that whatever they were convicted on wasn't a crime. (Not that *that* happens in real life, but it's a great political theory)
They could only go after the websites that had a business presence in New York State. So, all websites that have a comments section would leave the state. Sites like the New York Times, would have to subcontract out their comments section to the Caymen Islands.
In the US, you can call yourself anything you want to, as long as you aren't trying to defraud someone. While they *might* be able to enforce this for NY residents, people who live in other states or countries would be free to do as they pleased.
I'm Jim Conte, you're Jim Conte, we're all JC. If this bill passes, I propose that slashdot change "Anonymous Coward" to "Jim Conte" (Oh, I see, he just wants to go down in history with Ted "Series of Tubes" Stevens, and Santorum)
It was social engineering. Encryption cannot help with human gullibility.
Yes, it can. If you data is unencrypted anyone can give it out. You use encryption along with policy so that only those that need to know can get the information. For really sensitive information, you make sure that multiple people have to each add their password before the information is allowed to be accessed.
You can also use encryption to insure that machine 'A' can talk to machine 'B' using large certs, but no human has direct access.
Even better. Put a big red button on your computer, with a lighted sign above it. "Push to Test". When the button it pressed, the lighted sign changes to "Release to Detonate"
This was tried back in the day, by an guy in LA (I think). He paid people to watch specific channels at specific times, and press a button during the commercials. Then, he sold a device and service to people that would pause their VCRs during the commercials.
Dude committed "Suicide" before his service could take off. Take your own lesson from this.
but that doesn't seem to stop anyone. I've found that marketing rarely has ever been able to prove that the money they spend actually generates returns.
Most of the "Proof" is kept secret. Companies all the time try an ad campaign in just one market before going national. That, and hiring people to view ads while eye tracking and what is essentially a polygraph to monitor their responses to specific ads.
The problem is, even if the marketroids do science, it's a master marketer that sells his ads to the company. (internal or external) Even if the science says one thing, he's going to spin it so that he gets paid the most he can get.
Yes, the Marketing Department does science. No, that science will not help you unless your well being coincides with the well being of the marketers.
Try a local "Dollar" type store. Mine carries LR44s and some other type at 10/$1.00, the same cell that costs over $3.00 each at target.
Also, never buy a device that could take AA or AAA but instead takes button cells. Eschew those button cell flashlights, if you around, you can find a good penlight that takes one AAA.
A file system *is* a database. If your flatfile is just a little too big, you can very efficiently break your data up by putting the 'A' records in fileA, the 'B' records into fileB, and so on. If you need a one-off query, grep and sed are your friends.
If you have a Terabyte of data that needs to be indexed six ways to Sunday, then a database is the way to go. But for small quantities of data, flat files can't be beat. (An "small" is getting bigger every day)
Indeed, my best pan is a 9" cast iron skillet that is about 150 years old, and that's no exaggeration. Its not as non stick as teflon is, but its pretty damned good. Came over on a wagon train....
Not only that, but it's hard to find a good new cast iron pan that's as good as an antique Wagner or Griswold. I've considered buying a new pan, then machining it smooth.
The thing is, teflon pans are only very non-stick when they are new, after they begin to peel, you have to throw them away. If my cast iron pans are misused, I just scrub them with a little vinegar, then re-season them in the outdoor grill.
An FDA type agency is necessary to prevent snake-oil salespeople, but, yes, they shouldn't be in the business of telling people what to or not to put in their own bodies. You'd think Roe-v-Wade could be generalized to this, but no.
If an adult wants to inject used motor oil into their veins, more power to them. But if someone tries to sell used motor oil as "Magic Tree Oil" that will cure cancer, then it time for someone to force them to offer proof.
Dennis Robertson, M.D., Mayo Clinic ophthalmologist, conducted investigations with a green laser pointer directed to the retina of a patient’s eye; the eye was scheduled for removal because of a malignancy. The green laser damaged the pigment layer of the retina ...
This was a "street legal" 5mw laser pointer. A misplaced 50mw beam will cause damage to your eyes, probably in the form of microspots, because laser light is will focused by your eye's lens. Unfortunately the brain will fill in microspots in the retina until there are too many, or you get too old, then you have vision problems.
The moral: Beware friggin sharks carrying friggin lasers.
Hadn't thought of it in that context, but yes, the drone could have been intentionally crashed to detect holes in Iranian defenses. A flying Trojan Horse.
Most likely, the software wiped itself when the thing crashed, but it's not impossible that the drone had redundant copies of the flight software. Except one "copy" has the buggy or Trojan software and on crashing, the bogus version was moved into the flight areas. Or, there was a thermite charge above the brain, that slagged it down.
But, there is no one reality. Consider the case of a devout North Korean. It's probably the most sane thing for him to spout the party line when in NK, but tranfer him to New York City, and if he acts upon his beliefs, he'll be arrested or committed.
Shamenism will often involve the use of drugs or stress to introduce "altered states". During this altered state, the person might not recognize reality, but upon return they can interact with our world.
I've never met anyone that didn't believe in at least one thing that defies "reality". Usually, they can still navigate the real world. Imagine a person whose voices in their heads say to them, "Eat your broccoli, brush your teeth", but not excessively. That person would be able to interact with the real world without difficulty, but can you really call them sane?
Modular refueling would be useful. Sometimes the only thing that dictates the life of a geo sat is the station keeping fuel supply. When it's about to run out, a geo sat is put into a graveyard orbit, where it's not supposed to hurt anything. If you could send up a small fuel supply ship that could pull a few sats from the graveyard, put the good parts together with perhaps new batteries and gyroscopes, you could get a much bigger satellite than if you had to launch a brand new one.
If you built your satellites with a fuel/engine section that had the gyros and anything that normally wears out, a solar panel section, and payload sections, so that you could pull them apart and put them back together Lego style, this idea might be workable.
Because if they do, we will have backdoors into their spy satellites. Plugging a found USB drive you find in your company parking lot into your computer is an iffy proposition, plugging something into your satellite is just foolhardy. Best case, it's a bomb, worst case it's a monitoring device.
The youth vote got JFK into power. "They" shot him.
Those kids who voted for JFK *are* in power now. Age has a tendency to conservatize people, but a more important lesson is from California prop 19, that failed to legalize pot. Even pot growers actively campaigned against it, because they didn't want the competition.
A conservative wants things to remain the same. A person whose livelyhood is breaking the law, can also be conservative. He just has to delude himself into thinking that he'll never get caught.
Yup, and the dude that provides that "answer" doesn't even have to believe in it himself, he just has to profit from it.
There's a lot of hokum in the financial markets, it does lead to economic meltdown, and afterwards everyone just picks themselves up and follows the next money guru.