...and 100 miles per 4.5 hours is an impressive average speed, isn't it? But hey, the first quarter mile will be really quick. Bring a book to read on your road trips; you'll be waiting around a lot.
A method of rating employee performance includes: a) receiving a list of nominated raters from the employee, including at least one manager of the employee, a plurality of the employee's peers, and a plurality of the employee's direct reports; b) electronically soliciting and receiving manager approval of the list of nominated raters; c) electronically notifying the approved raters with instructions for rating the employee; and d) receiving employee ratings data from the approved raters, wherein the steps of electronically soliciting and electronically notifying are automated. The process also includes training all users of the system in a manner in which the ratings are calibrated by comparing case studies to specific behavioral examples to provide immediate feedback to the user in a training process which is fully automated.
Offtopic: the nerd-correct way of putting this is On the gripping hand. But you make a good point: if the machines can't be trusted, then they can't be trusted.
But Diebold told the commissioners that allowing unauthorized people access to the machines had violated their integrity.
I guess the obvious comment here is "What integrity?". The entire problem with the Diebold machines is that they're black boxes, and the results they report aren't subject to an independent audit. What electronic voting machines require to be trustable, and what Diebold doesn't provide, is a physical voter-verifiable token showing their votes, which can be manually recounted as necessary.
Rather than the 7-month-old press release referenced by the slashdot story, try the current PBS Monty Python page. The first special is scheduled to air tomorrow (February 22), and the series reruns start in April.
If best buy advertises something for $299, and doesn't actually have that item but has a similar one that's more expensive, that's bait and switch, and it's illegal in the United States.
Best Buy does (or used to do) this every single week with low-end laptops. They advertise a $599 laptop, but only have two of them per store. This is not significantly different than not having the item at all. Maybe this "housecleaning" means they won't do the continual bait-and-switch with popular items? I doubt it.
From TFA: Mp> Geotrust has a rigorous process in place to check for phishy certificate requests that relies on algorithms which check cert requests for certain words, misspellings or phrases that may indicate a phisher is involved. In this case, she said, the technology did not flag the request because there was nothing in the Internet address to indicate the site was at all related to a financial institution.
If they rely on misspellings, they'll only catch the dumb phishers. They're generally the ones that don't catch a lot of people anyway, or at least not anybody who doesn't deserve to be scammed.
I was depressed by how many of the people in the article listed an IBM PC as their first computer. There was a magic about the early 8-bit micros that captured the imagination, and that was just completely missing on the PC.
Snort. You "early micro" guys had it easy. My first "computer" was a Texas Instruments SR-56 programmable calculator (in college circa 1976). 10 numeric registers, 100-step program memory, NO EXTERNAL STORAGE (you had to re-enter the program steps every time you turned it off or wanted to switch programs). I can't recall any particular programs I wrote on it, but it did give me a deep appreciation for permanent data and program storage. The first "real" computer I used was a Digital PDP-8, which allowed you to save your program on paper tape. That was an awesome improvement, and it's just kept getting better ever since.
I have another theory: the stock took a hit because there aren't any news stories about Google spending millions of dollars on a sock-puppet Super Bowl ad.
Apparently the virus is of the executable-email-attachment variety, so if you don't open unknown attachments you're probably not in any danger.
A local college announced to the media today that one of their administrative servers had been "infected by a hacker with a virus", whatever that means. I wonder if this is the one they've got; if so there's apparently no exposure of their data involved. I also wonder at the wisdom of announcing something like this (although the server in question did contain employee's confidential info, including SSNs). Kind of like putting a big "kick me" sign on your back...
Hasn't anybody here ever heard of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command? It was released on video, but spawned a pretty clever animated TV show that ran for 60 episodes or so. Not Pixar, but it was Disney.
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I googled this "Jeffrey Toback" guy, and he's apparently a nobody.
...and 100 miles per 4.5 hours is an impressive average speed, isn't it? But hey, the first quarter mile will be really quick. Bring a book to read on your road trips; you'll be waiting around a lot.
Does the proposed law really forbid "anticircumvention tools"?
Oh, man! How about a spoiler warning next time?
Too late!
United States Patent 6,853,975
Dirksen , et al. February 8, 2005
Method of rating employee performance
Abstract
A method of rating employee performance includes: a) receiving a list of nominated raters from the employee, including at least one manager of the employee, a plurality of the employee's peers, and a plurality of the employee's direct reports; b) electronically soliciting and receiving manager approval of the list of nominated raters; c) electronically notifying the approved raters with instructions for rating the employee; and d) receiving employee ratings data from the approved raters, wherein the steps of electronically soliciting and electronically notifying are automated. The process also includes training all users of the system in a manner in which the ratings are calibrated by comparing case studies to specific behavioral examples to provide immediate feedback to the user in a training process which is fully automated.
Might I suggest "imaginative" instead?
OK, you first. Oh, you don't want to leave? What a surprise...
OK, I changed my mind.
Offtopic: the nerd-correct way of putting this is On the gripping hand. But you make a good point: if the machines can't be trusted, then they can't be trusted.
But Diebold told the commissioners that allowing unauthorized people access to the machines had violated their integrity.
I guess the obvious comment here is "What integrity?". The entire problem with the Diebold machines is that they're black boxes, and the results they report aren't subject to an independent audit. What electronic voting machines require to be trustable, and what Diebold doesn't provide, is a physical voter-verifiable token showing their votes, which can be manually recounted as necessary.
So say you!
This statement is not self-referential.
You obviously haven't seen Web goes down the toilet. Sample quote:
Design graduate Andrew Cubitt has taken the humble toilet roll and turned it into a hi-tech news and information service.
"Something that everyone wants!" Why didn't I think of that! *slap* No wonder my Fortran 77 programming tools business is failing!
Would that be like the Etch-a-Sketch that Dilbert's PHB has? (only desktop, not portable)
Rather than the 7-month-old press release referenced by the slashdot story, try the current PBS Monty Python page. The first special is scheduled to air tomorrow (February 22), and the series reruns start in April.
Best Buy does (or used to do) this every single week with low-end laptops. They advertise a $599 laptop, but only have two of them per store. This is not significantly different than not having the item at all. Maybe this "housecleaning" means they won't do the continual bait-and-switch with popular items? I doubt it.
Good point. I had assumed they meant misspelled words in the email body. The misspelled URL trick is very common.
If they rely on misspellings, they'll only catch the dumb phishers. They're generally the ones that don't catch a lot of people anyway, or at least not anybody who doesn't deserve to be scammed.
Snort. You "early micro" guys had it easy. My first "computer" was a Texas Instruments SR-56 programmable calculator (in college circa 1976). 10 numeric registers, 100-step program memory, NO EXTERNAL STORAGE (you had to re-enter the program steps every time you turned it off or wanted to switch programs). I can't recall any particular programs I wrote on it, but it did give me a deep appreciation for permanent data and program storage. The first "real" computer I used was a Digital PDP-8, which allowed you to save your program on paper tape. That was an awesome improvement, and it's just kept getting better ever since.
I have another theory: the stock took a hit because there aren't any news stories about Google spending millions of dollars on a sock-puppet Super Bowl ad.
Apparently the virus is of the executable-email-attachment variety, so if you don't open unknown attachments you're probably not in any danger. A local college announced to the media today that one of their administrative servers had been "infected by a hacker with a virus", whatever that means. I wonder if this is the one they've got; if so there's apparently no exposure of their data involved. I also wonder at the wisdom of announcing something like this (although the server in question did contain employee's confidential info, including SSNs). Kind of like putting a big "kick me" sign on your back...
Well, a quicky web search would indicate that the obesity rate in the two countries is virtually identical: 14.6%.
Hasn't anybody here ever heard of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command? It was released on video, but spawned a pretty clever animated TV show that ran for 60 episodes or so. Not Pixar, but it was Disney.
No thanks, Google is already monitoring my browsing habits. I wouldn't want to make them mad.