There's a specific forum that I try not to use but occasionally has stuff I need to look at... It's an ad-laden disaster including the keyword popups so you need to keep your mouse pointer comfortably off screen while you scroll or else you get popups as you're scrolling... If I visit the site with an ad-blocker, the site will pretty much not load.. I'm not sure what's happening (I'm a kernel/embedded guy, I don't pay attention to webby stuff) but I'm wondering if some javascript is waiting for a specific cookie being dropped by one or more of the ads before it will load the rest of the site... If I don't enable JS, I don't get anything. If I enable JS but use adblock+, the site just seems to block...
In the same way that it is wrong for a handful of innocent people to face the death penalty as a cost of the more common case of executing a bunch of guilty people.
That's the theory... I see a number of local headlines of the form "Joe Shmoe has been arrested on suspicion of child molestation and trafficking of a person under the age of 18"... Well, I don't know if I've ever seen a headline that says "Joe Shmoe was cleared of all charges relating to his arrest for child molestation and trafficking"... So when Joe Shmoe wants to continue his career as a youth swimming instructor, I predict he's largely fucked even though, technically, everything should be ok. I think most insensible people know the difference between being accused and actually being convicted but I also think most parents are going to say "well, he probably got off on a technicality and where there's smoke there's fire so i'm not going to trust him with my 14 year old daughter"...
The theoretical world is a nice place to live in, if you can find a way to do it... But here in the real world, things aren't always ideal.
Most parts of the building are smartphone 'ok' but there are labs that are not. Outside the labs are cubbies with keylocks. You're supposed to put your phone in a cubby... The times i've violated the rule were purely accidental where someone has dragged me away from my desk to help them with something and the excursion ends up in one of the labs and I forget that my phone is in my pocket.. I've never taken the phone out of my pocket to use it though it did ring once causing everyone to look over and mock me until I sheepishly left...
Other parts of the building where the phones are allowed; the phones get used because the corporate firewall prevents us from doing actual work so we have to download stuff onto our phones and then e-mail it to our corporate accounts... The corporate climate for making firewall rules which permit people to be productive is non-existant. And you wonder why military gear is expensive? But I digress.
Same here. My son grew up not knowing there were ads on TV. When he was 8, he saw his first ad at Grampas house (because Grandma/grampa have satellite)...
Unfortunately, the pervasiveness of ads is over the top. Most movies have product placement... I think there should be an IMDB category for product placement so you can decide whether to watch a movie based on how much of it is in there.
Not to mention that most (all?) rental companies will not appreciate you driving their rental SUV down a dirt track with tree branches brushing against the side of the vehicle and bringing it back with pin-stripes...
I'm not Bear Grylls but I also enjoy driving offroad to get to beautiful places without starting a 3 day hike.
It's fairly common for the company to let you grab your coat and lunch and accompany you while you walk out of the building. It's an awkward situation all around... At the place I'm currently working, they make appointments for you to return to clean out your desk during the evening hours, when nobody else is around.
I've only blown once. It was after a 4 beer in 3.5 hour get together with friends... I wasn't drunk but could feel a bit of a buzz.. Nothing serious... Anyway, I blew.025.
I don't know if it's linear but now that I know what.025 feels like, I shudder to think what kind of fool would consider driving at.08...
The good news is that I know if I stick to my personal 'rules' (established when I was a teenager), I will never blow over.
They don't have to give the work to the world at large. They have offer to give the code to the people who are running the code. If some company hires me to build a widget for them to use in their fleet vehicles, then I need to give them the code (if they ask)... I don't have to publish it on the intarwebs.
Ask yourself this... How effective would such videos be if nobody saw them? If people didn't know they existed. Would they keep making them? So then it follows that the fewer people who see them, the better.
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There's a specific forum that I try not to use but occasionally has stuff I need to look at... It's an ad-laden disaster including the keyword popups so you need to keep your mouse pointer comfortably off screen while you scroll or else you get popups as you're scrolling... If I visit the site with an ad-blocker, the site will pretty much not load.. I'm not sure what's happening (I'm a kernel/embedded guy, I don't pay attention to webby stuff) but I'm wondering if some javascript is waiting for a specific cookie being dropped by one or more of the ads before it will load the rest of the site ... If I don't enable JS, I don't get anything. If I enable JS but use adblock+, the site just seems to block...
In the same way that it is wrong for a handful of innocent people to face the death penalty as a cost of the more common case of executing a bunch of guilty people.
That's the theory... I see a number of local headlines of the form "Joe Shmoe has been arrested on suspicion of child molestation and trafficking of a person under the age of 18" ... Well, I don't know if I've ever seen a headline that says "Joe Shmoe was cleared of all charges relating to his arrest for child molestation and trafficking" ... So when Joe Shmoe wants to continue his career as a youth swimming instructor, I predict he's largely fucked even though, technically, everything should be ok. I think most insensible people know the difference between being accused and actually being convicted but I also think most parents are going to say "well, he probably got off on a technicality and where there's smoke there's fire so i'm not going to trust him with my 14 year old daughter"...
The theoretical world is a nice place to live in, if you can find a way to do it... But here in the real world, things aren't always ideal.
Most parts of the building are smartphone 'ok' but there are labs that are not. Outside the labs are cubbies with keylocks. You're supposed to put your phone in a cubby... The times i've violated the rule were purely accidental where someone has dragged me away from my desk to help them with something and the excursion ends up in one of the labs and I forget that my phone is in my pocket.. I've never taken the phone out of my pocket to use it though it did ring once causing everyone to look over and mock me until I sheepishly left...
Other parts of the building where the phones are allowed; the phones get used because the corporate firewall prevents us from doing actual work so we have to download stuff onto our phones and then e-mail it to our corporate accounts... The corporate climate for making firewall rules which permit people to be productive is non-existant. And you wonder why military gear is expensive? But I digress.
Same here. My son grew up not knowing there were ads on TV. When he was 8, he saw his first ad at Grampas house (because Grandma/grampa have satellite)...
Unfortunately, the pervasiveness of ads is over the top. Most movies have product placement... I think there should be an IMDB category for product placement so you can decide whether to watch a movie based on how much of it is in there.
Richard? Is that you?
Similar, but less complicated...
... lather rinse repeat
On a Cisco catalyst,
script this:
conf t
int g0/1
no shut
ping and program
shut
int g0/2
no shut
ping and program
I hear battery life is really really short.
Not to mention that most (all?) rental companies will not appreciate you driving their rental SUV down a dirt track with tree branches brushing against the side of the vehicle and bringing it back with pin-stripes...
I'm not Bear Grylls but I also enjoy driving offroad to get to beautiful places without starting a 3 day hike.
As a software developer in my late 40's, I have no trouble concentrating. I can go long stretches without any
holy shit! a Squirrel just hopped from one branch to another outside my office window! A grey squirrel... Let me look that up on wikipedia...
dammit, DNS is down... I wonder if there's a new bind exploit? I should look it up. I'll use my phone because DNS is down.
Oh look! A text message!
whoa! There goes the squirrel again!
vi guy will win because emacs guy will be too busy contorting his fingers over all the meta keys to launch 'bottleopener.el'.
It's fairly common for the company to let you grab your coat and lunch and accompany you while you walk out of the building. It's an awkward situation all around... At the place I'm currently working, they make appointments for you to return to clean out your desk during the evening hours, when nobody else is around.
So you're saying in the modern world, nobody should raise their own children. We've risen above that now have we?
Wish I had mod points today. You're 100% correct.
Why have a kid if you're just going to pay someone else to raise it? Unless you had the kid as some sort of long-term palliative support worker...
DNA sample.
I used to be smart enough to remember movies the first time... I don't think I got dumb, but I definitely got 'old.
old != dumb.
Isn't Spartan a kind of Apple?
Maybe they're merging...
Nope,
!ucbvax
My first domain was a .UUCP ... It was very refreshing not to have to use 'smail' anymore.
While reading this post I wondered what features I'd want in a watch that would convince me to actually wear one..
Here's the only thing I can think of:
http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/ML-600-Antistatic-wrist-strap-Esd_60119127934.html
A watch that doubles as an ESD strap.
Thinkgeek, are you listening?
so you're saying you were assaulted... I feel that gives you justification to disarm your assailant.
I've only blown once. It was after a 4 beer in 3.5 hour get together with friends... I wasn't drunk but could feel a bit of a buzz.. Nothing serious... Anyway, I blew .025.
.025 feels like, I shudder to think what kind of fool would consider driving at .08...
I don't know if it's linear but now that I know what
The good news is that I know if I stick to my personal 'rules' (established when I was a teenager), I will never blow over.
Make them out of copper?
They don't have to give the work to the world at large. They have offer to give the code to the people who are running the code. If some company hires me to build a widget for them to use in their fleet vehicles, then I need to give them the code (if they ask)... I don't have to publish it on the intarwebs.
Ask yourself this... How effective would such videos be if nobody saw them? If people didn't know they existed. Would they keep making them? So then it follows that the fewer people who see them, the better.