If i was to try this with my manager at work(laptops are fairly autonomous at our work), it would have progressed no further than 'I want you to change your IE search engine from Bing to Google.'. Manager tests are like the mom test without the advantage that thee are born of thine mother, and hence have a bit more grace period.
yeah me too. I have been in the biz for 20 years. I havent typed "drop database" very often, and to see it appear is actually rather traumatic as it can mean very bad things. Is ok, i composed myself after a moment, but yes, I stopped in my tracks. Sad or what?
Statisticians are like designers....they should stick to designing(or statistics as it were).
IE do what they are good at. At my work we hand off these parts as modules. Designers push back a form design. The statistician pushes back some algorithms writen in a high level language.
I really do treat them like library calls.
The 2nd Iraq invasion changed my view about the world.
As we know, the initial success of the invasion wasn't due to military excellence such as the African Desert Tank Battles between General Mongomery and the German Panzer Divisions.
It was due to middle ranked officers - tank commander, platoon leaders being paid money by the US Govt, CIA. When they didnt show up to work on the specified day, the ordinary soldier fled.
In this case Monty is right, its not hard, for orgs with the know-how and resources to de-rail something. Money talks.
Years ago I ran a parody website in my smallish town. My coup-de-etat was my "paedophiles-hang-their-six-packs-of-yogurt-on-the-side-of-their-supermarket-trolley" expose.
I quoted a fictional study, used actual photos with the censor strip over the face, and mock interviews with supposed paedophiles that all hung the yogurt on the side of their trolley. The local newspaper picked up the story. Apparently the incidents of the six packs *in the trolley* went thru the roof according to my checkout friend.
Honestly, scam baiting these guys is an undesirable consequence. Just as 9-11 gave us color coded alert charts and increased duct tape sales, baiting them is not productive to your time.
Look, I am not some bleeding heart liberal, but look at it from the other end, the ones in the pics may not be the actual ring-leaders, they could be just the recipients from the bosses directive to "staff" to "do what this email says", just as we get told to "go and sort out the General Managers Mobile Phone Internet connection".
I envisage a scenario similar to drug running - a few direct simple vulnerable or desperate folk to do silly things, where mostly we assume benefits outwiegh costs(lost drugs).
In the scammers case, the boss wouldnt give two shits if someone spent a day dressing up to do what an email asked.
I suspect the mechanics and eventual funding are not the issue. The issue is "(Russia) then invites the world's leading space agencies to join the project.".
What I find interesting about this is there is some value in being seen as the visible innovator. Look at the kudos China got from the story a few days ago about their fast train(made actually by the Germans etc). Who has the fastest train? The Chinese. Who will save the earth from doom? The Russians.
I came accross the USB Wifi site by accident a couple years back. I recalled seeing the dim-sum scoops in the local chinese mini-mart up the road, so I went up and bought one (NZ$4.50), and leaned it behind my modem's wireless antenna, then went to my garage sleepout for guests, which previously was out of range. Using NetStumbler, I watched the graph while a friend adjusted the scoop in the house. It went up to a usable "Good/Excellant" signal.
I havent investigated why, but a wire mesh scoop seems better than a sold dish(Engineers will know I am sure).
From Wikipedia re The Yes Men: "...they create and maintain fake websites similar to ones they want to spoof, and then they accept invitations received on their websites to appear at conferences, symposia, and TV shows".
I would be looking at this with tongue firmly in cheek.
"You didn't tell if he actually is interested in programming at all
Expanding on that a little, the period of discovery might be over with computers and hence programming. When I was 15 my school got 4 CP/M based machines and 2 apple IIe's. It was a time wonderous discovery of new things, and to get there students did it themselves.
With all this stuff being a natural part of a kids life now, I do wonder if that desire to discover is not there so much.
Our local radio station ran a competition years ago: The crappiest job.
A girl(I presume teenager) rang in and she won. Her father made sacks. He sewed the bottom of them. I was about 14 at the time, and at first I laughed. As she mocked her father more I stopped laughing. I'll never forget it, and I Iearned a lot about humanity in 2 minutes that day.
I am from New Zealand but I presume attitudes are similar in other countries.
20 years ago driving drunk was pretty much ignored by police and "as long as the car knew its way home" things were fine.
I would imagine "young'uns" must really find this hard to imagine, but there was really nothing seen as wrong with DUI. You just did.
Within 1/2 my lifetime(1/4 for some), the subject has gone from being seen as harmless, and perhaps something to laugh over at monday morning coffee to seeing a person caught going into custody, then potentialy jail, fines, loss of license, but more over, the social stigma, and potential job loss.
I do not drink and drive any more, as I can see the logic of not, buts it mainly to avoid fines and job risk.
Police sure make some money though. Those fines boost those coffers...just sayin'....
For several years at performance reviews, I have tacked on the request "it would be great if the employer really worked on improving staff support networks, which would in turn leave people like me free to do what we are paid to do, and do it in a more timely manner.
I may as well of said nothing.
A couple months back a person resigned from another biz and she was talented but also an absolute stunner(drop dead gorgeous) and my manager wanted her in our organisation.
Her reply was a short but polite "No thanks, I really am looking for a place with strong support networks.". It was a real blow to him, and a wake up call. Now our managers "support", not "oversee". It has worked well, and we seldom pull late shifts now, as the jobs done.
Etherpad is httpRequest javascript in a wysiwig which allowes collaborative editing in real time on a text doc with some rich text. My opinion is its a chat window where you type in the area the chat appears.
In a screenshot on their page is the example text "...Etherpads patent-pending sychronization algorithm makes sure everyones edits are merged in realtime".
I would see Gmail's live chat feature being quite close in concept. I wonder if Etherpad extended an open palm and inquired about renumeration.
I inadvertently missed a credit card payment, so the CC company phoned me.
In short, what followed, was a mumbling identification of person with several rapidfire demand for details such as dob, card expiry, address so he could "verify me as the card holder".
I declined to answer firmly, and I said I will call them. He got irate and made a terse comment. I then called the CC company. The pleasant woman explained the situation and problem resolved ( it was flagged "possible mispayment" because I am usually regular.).
The one surprise was she asked if everything was ok as "the last customer contact is tagged Customer was Abusive".
If you hold onto your guns and do what the banks say and never give personal information out over the phone or internet then in this case in turned to custard.
I have reported this incident, but i suspect someone need to do track covering, like I suspect they did in this case when the Admin did the right thing.
I work for a company that supplies a specific unique service(Laboratory Service). I use a work gmail account for testing/backup. My personal email is not gmail. To my surprise after using gmail I starting getting spam to my personal account to do with Lab stuff. And some ads in gmail clearly are oriented to my personal stuff. As far as I know I have never crossed the two and strickly keep personal matters out of Gmail.
As with a comment above, "if you have nothing to hide", I don't have anything to hide. But it is somewhat unsettling.
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If i was to try this with my manager at work(laptops are fairly autonomous at our work), it would have progressed no further than 'I want you to change your IE search engine from Bing to Google.'. Manager tests are like the mom test without the advantage that thee are born of thine mother, and hence have a bit more grace period.
"Not that we'll ever forget Ballmer's 'developers, developers, developers' rant."
I am principally a developer in *nix. But...as a concept, his developers rant was actually and a correct view.
Know thine enemy.
yeah me too. I have been in the biz for 20 years. I havent typed "drop database" very often, and to see it appear is actually rather traumatic as it can mean very bad things. Is ok, i composed myself after a moment, but yes, I stopped in my tracks. Sad or what?
Roxxxy, though, was rather unsexily posed on a couch, not moving a bit
*casts eye to wife in next room, then back to computer screen.
Wow, they *are* life like!
Statisticians are like designers....they should stick to designing(or statistics as it were).
IE do what they are good at. At my work we hand off these parts as modules. Designers push back a form design. The statistician pushes back some algorithms writen in a high level language. I really do treat them like library calls.
The 2nd Iraq invasion changed my view about the world.
As we know, the initial success of the invasion wasn't due to military excellence such as the African Desert Tank Battles between General Mongomery and the German Panzer Divisions.
It was due to middle ranked officers - tank commander, platoon leaders being paid money by the US Govt, CIA. When they didnt show up to work on the specified day, the ordinary soldier fled.
In this case Monty is right, its not hard, for orgs with the know-how and resources to de-rail something. Money talks.
Many day care centers have glass walls and no doors to the toilets these days.
I once made a comment to a day care center "Is it for the protection of the children". She replied "No, It is for the staffs protection".
If by "give money" you mean "sodomize then throw in a pit", then yes....
1995 called and wants their "ATI drivers are crap" comment back.
Years ago I ran a parody website in my smallish town. My coup-de-etat was my "paedophiles-hang-their-six-packs-of-yogurt-on-the-side-of-their-supermarket-trolley" expose. I quoted a fictional study, used actual photos with the censor strip over the face, and mock interviews with supposed paedophiles that all hung the yogurt on the side of their trolley. The local newspaper picked up the story. Apparently the incidents of the six packs *in the trolley* went thru the roof according to my checkout friend.
Honestly, scam baiting these guys is an undesirable consequence. Just as 9-11 gave us color coded alert charts and increased duct tape sales, baiting them is not productive to your time.
Look, I am not some bleeding heart liberal, but look at it from the other end, the ones in the pics may not be the actual ring-leaders, they could be just the recipients from the bosses directive to "staff" to "do what this email says", just as we get told to "go and sort out the General Managers Mobile Phone Internet connection".
I envisage a scenario similar to drug running - a few direct simple vulnerable or desperate folk to do silly things, where mostly we assume benefits outwiegh costs(lost drugs).
In the scammers case, the boss wouldnt give two shits if someone spent a day dressing up to do what an email asked.
I suspect the mechanics and eventual funding are not the issue. The issue is "(Russia) then invites the world's leading space agencies to join the project.".
What I find interesting about this is there is some value in being seen as the visible innovator. Look at the kudos China got from the story a few days ago about their fast train(made actually by the Germans etc). Who has the fastest train? The Chinese. Who will save the earth from doom? The Russians.
I came accross the USB Wifi site by accident a couple years back. I recalled seeing the dim-sum scoops in the local chinese mini-mart up the road, so I went up and bought one (NZ$4.50), and leaned it behind my modem's wireless antenna, then went to my garage sleepout for guests, which previously was out of range. Using NetStumbler, I watched the graph while a friend adjusted the scoop in the house. It went up to a usable "Good/Excellant" signal.
I havent investigated why, but a wire mesh scoop seems better than a sold dish(Engineers will know I am sure).
From Wikipedia re The Yes Men: "...they create and maintain fake websites similar to ones they want to spoof, and then they accept invitations received on their websites to appear at conferences, symposia, and TV shows".
I would be looking at this with tongue firmly in cheek.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_yes_men
"You didn't tell if he actually is interested in programming at all
Expanding on that a little, the period of discovery might be over with computers and hence programming. When I was 15 my school got 4 CP/M based machines and 2 apple IIe's. It was a time wonderous discovery of new things, and to get there students did it themselves.
With all this stuff being a natural part of a kids life now, I do wonder if that desire to discover is not there so much.
Our local radio station ran a competition years ago: The crappiest job.
A girl(I presume teenager) rang in and she won. Her father made sacks. He sewed the bottom of them. I was about 14 at the time, and at first I laughed. As she mocked her father more I stopped laughing. I'll never forget it, and I Iearned a lot about humanity in 2 minutes that day.
I am from New Zealand but I presume attitudes are similar in other countries.
20 years ago driving drunk was pretty much ignored by police and "as long as the car knew its way home" things were fine. I would imagine "young'uns" must really find this hard to imagine, but there was really nothing seen as wrong with DUI. You just did.
Within 1/2 my lifetime(1/4 for some), the subject has gone from being seen as harmless, and perhaps something to laugh over at monday morning coffee to seeing a person caught going into custody, then potentialy jail, fines, loss of license, but more over, the social stigma, and potential job loss.
I do not drink and drive any more, as I can see the logic of not, buts it mainly to avoid fines and job risk.
Police sure make some money though. Those fines boost those coffers...just sayin'....
Yes I am starting an ISP, we have named our plans based on internal combustion engine technology (from slowest to fastest):
- Naturally Aspirated
- Venturi Affected Plenum Chamber
- Forced Induction (Blown)
- F1 (120% Volumetric Efficiency
Sign-ups seem slow...
"Its a civil matter, Sir"
For several years at performance reviews, I have tacked on the request "it would be great if the employer really worked on improving staff support networks, which would in turn leave people like me free to do what we are paid to do, and do it in a more timely manner.
I may as well of said nothing.
A couple months back a person resigned from another biz and she was talented but also an absolute stunner(drop dead gorgeous) and my manager wanted her in our organisation.
Her reply was a short but polite "No thanks, I really am looking for a place with strong support networks.". It was a real blow to him, and a wake up call. Now our managers "support", not "oversee". It has worked well, and we seldom pull late shifts now, as the jobs done.
Etherpad is httpRequest javascript in a wysiwig which allowes collaborative editing in real time on a text doc with some rich text. My opinion is its a chat window where you type in the area the chat appears.
In a screenshot on their page is the example text "...Etherpads patent-pending sychronization algorithm makes sure everyones edits are merged in realtime".
I would see Gmail's live chat feature being quite close in concept. I wonder if Etherpad extended an open palm and inquired about renumeration.
Agreed. I think though, the resulting searched info would be from a web admins carelessness. A log file, or non-validated input variables for example.
As such, liability is easily passed to that web admin.
The exception might be if google tries "mini brute force" in its searches.
Someone setting a honey pot for google...there is a risk for them.
I inadvertently missed a credit card payment, so the CC company phoned me.
In short, what followed, was a mumbling identification of person with several rapidfire demand for details such as dob, card expiry, address so he could "verify me as the card holder".
I declined to answer firmly, and I said I will call them. He got irate and made a terse comment. I then called the CC company. The pleasant woman explained the situation and problem resolved ( it was flagged "possible mispayment" because I am usually regular.).
The one surprise was she asked if everything was ok as "the last customer contact is tagged Customer was Abusive".
If you hold onto your guns and do what the banks say and never give personal information out over the phone or internet then in this case in turned to custard.
I have reported this incident, but i suspect someone need to do track covering, like I suspect they did in this case when the Admin did the right thing.
I work for a company that supplies a specific unique service(Laboratory Service). I use a work gmail account for testing/backup. My personal email is not gmail. To my surprise after using gmail I starting getting spam to my personal account to do with Lab stuff. And some ads in gmail clearly are oriented to my personal stuff. As far as I know I have never crossed the two and strickly keep personal matters out of Gmail.
As with a comment above, "if you have nothing to hide", I don't have anything to hide. But it is somewhat unsettling.
The complete list is:
- W: Convicted Drink Driver
- M: Convicted Murderer
- P: Paedophile
- D: Drug Offender
- B: Britney Fan