Women have always been beautiful enough for evolutionary purposes, just as men have always been sufficiently whatever-it-is-women-want for evolutionary purposes. Every parent of a teenager knows this, and every teenager does not.
In particular, prostate surgery has a very high risk of causing impotence. It would be nice if this new method could replace surgery altogether, at least for less severe cases.
Yeah, and if they could develop the surgery-free treatment real fast, that would be great. My prostatectomy is scheduled for next Monday, and I'd be delighted to skip it.
Lawyers aren't the worst, but they're certainly a challenge. Supporting lawyers, you have really smart people who spend all their time studying the intricacies of legal documents and the law, who generally have way more stuff to read than they have time for. The last thing they want to do is learn to understand how computers work. I know whereof I speak, because I worked for two years in IT litigation support, mostly writing how-to documentation.
To the original poster, my advice is to keep working your day job and pick up computer skills in evening classes and personal reading/experimentation. A computer science degree is useful the first couple of years, but as you accumulate experience, you'll find the degree is less of an issue.
Try EdgeGuard or AppGuard. They provide protection against malware from USB drives or zero-day web site exploits. (Full disclosure: I work for the company that produces these.)
ADVERTISERS are Anti-Privacy People!!! They would create massive databases tracking every single man woman and child on the planet if they could and many are still working on that very thing.
We're all the brainless pawns in their business strategies and plans.
But we're not brainless. We can write poems and can post to/. That probably explains why you don't have an Chevrolet Vega in your driveway, among other things.
Probably the easiest way to achieve this is to give her a cell phone and pay for the locator service. If she values the phone, she'll keep it with her. However, like several people have already commented, teach your child how to call you. Remember that your primary goal in parenting is to raise a self-sufficient adult. Ending up on the wrong school bus is only the beginning of the crises she will face in life.
That was sort of my thinking, too. FWIW, TFA now says that only foreigners will have their fingerprints taken, not U.S. citizens. So this plan is even more idiotic: Illegal aliens are already trying to pass as U.S. citizens, so the fingerprinting will catch none of them.
I don't understand U.S. immigration policy. A couple of weekends ago, I had breakfast at a local diner and learned that our Ukrainian waitress was here on a temporary guest-worker visa. This is a job that pretty well nearly everybody can do, in a town where such employment is not seasonal in nature, so how is this justified? In the realm of pushing down wages and inhibiting employment of U.S. citizens, this is no better than an illegal alien who snuck across the border.
Hmmm, let's think about this. The Germans were playing with V2s in the 1940s, and the Soviets put a satellite into orbit in 1957; in 1969, NASA was still doing some calculations with slide rules. The DVD was introduced in the mid-1990s and requires some fairly serious computer technology plus a technology called light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation (LASER) which wasn't available until the 1960s.
If I get hit by a bus or throw in the towel for any reason, I'd be leaving behind a network that requires some significant expertise to run. Ultimately, this won't be a good reference for me if they are trying to work out technical details for years to come.
If you are hit by a bus, you won't be worrying about references for a while. There are less painful ways to throw in the towel.
They should just stick to the most reliable password of all, mother's maiden name. Who the hell else would know that?
I assume you are making a joke. One source is public records. If you're married in the U.S., there is a marriage record on file in the courthouse of the county where you're married. This record is open to the public, and (at least in the state where I live), it lists the names of the couple's parents, as well as the places of birth of the couple. That tells me where you were born.
The courthouse of the county where you were born will have your mother's maiden name on your birth record -- which I believe is also a public record -- and, if I remember correctly, also your father's birth info.
I've started using a friend's mother's maiden name. The big problem comes when I can't remember whether the account was set up before or after I started this practice.
As for most of the other special questions I've seen, they are either easily guessed by someone who knows me fairly well, or they are such obscure things that I may well forget them in about ten years -- long before I expect Alzheimer's has kicked in. You'd think I shouldn't have to worry about people who know me, but remember that most frauds are perpetrated by people who know the victim.
I own two wireless mice, one by Logitech (part of a a combo set containing a wireless keyboard) and the other by (gasp!) Microsoft. Both of these things worked with my Debian laptop right out of the box. I hadn't bothered with getting a Bluetooth interface when I bought my laptop.
I just bought a laptop for my synagogue and got the "XP downgrade". While choosing components and accessories, I noticed two things: that the Bluetooth software needed on the laptop depended on whether I was getting XP or Vista, and that the same Microsoft mouse I own was going to cost half what the Bluetooth mouse was going to cost. I chose the proprietary mouse.
My wife has a Bluetooth mouse she bought at my suggestion for her XP laptop, and she has never reported any problem with it; however, I don't think she uses it much, as I found it behind the couch the other day.
It seems to me that these proprietary wireless things must do more of their processing in hardware than on the CPU, and I continue to by mystified as to why the proprietary devices continue to be significantly cheaper than the open standard ones.
I think it's a bad summary. I had no problem turning up the authors listed in the article. It'll be interesting to see how Amazon's "recommendations" change for me. I guess some people pay attention to the page rankings, but I don't. It's not censorship if I can still buy the book from them.
If we all pitch in and send a copy of the titles listed in TFA to Cowboy Neal (whom I am suggesting simply because he is a convenient victim), Amazon will have to reassess their page rankings. I'm sure that when Brokeback Mountain was in the theaters, there was no way they'd have failed to list it as a bestseller.
I tried it as a parent because I was raised that way. I stopped when I realized that if I kept doing it, I would likely end up being one of those people we read about in the paper who abuse their kids. I'll let you know in about 20 years whether the non-violent approach of counting her "out" we have been using works, but if I had it to do again, I'd never lay a hand on my kid, and I'll never advise anyone to do so. Spanking or using physical pain means the parent has lost control.
Maybe I'm old, or just odd, but changing the i's to y's immediately brought up alternative sexual preferences and lifestyles (e.g., womyn). Not that there's anything wrong with it, but I don't see it as attracting more of the mainstream audience.
People want a simple answer. We hate having to think, and it's easy to be distracted and make a mistake solving a complex problem, particularly when we're in a hurry. Most of the time, these simple answers are good enough, but sometimes we're bitten by them.
I can't find a link to support it, but my recollection is that the "cooperation" was initially allowing the Border Patrol agents to access the encrypted data.
I can't think of anything illegal on my computing devices, but I have pretty much decided to wipe my cell phone and/or computer anytime I cross a national border.
FWIW, reading the text of the complaint, I really dislike the fact that this is the guy who's the poster boy for civil rights. It smells even worse than defending freedom of speech for the KKK and the Nazis.
The author said this was a large company. I'd be surprised if their policy is for HR to do anything more than confirm "Yes, he worked here from X to Y" when called for a reference check, even if the employee is fired for cause. From what I've read over the last few years, that's the trend. So a manager who threatens to give a bad reference is unlikely to ever have a shot at doing so unless his name is offered as a reference. Rule 1 for people looking for a job is to never name a reference who will do anything other than gush over how great the person was.
Besides, if one already has a new job lined up, the company doing the threatening will already be two jobs back the next time a reference check is needed.
It's sad but true. When an employee does something wrong it's unprofessional. When an employer does something wrong it's business.
Neither of the companies that have laid me off so far gave me a poke in the eye. In all of the companies where I've worked that have had layoffs, they have tried to do it in a dignified way, with an offer as much help as they could afford in the circumstances.
LinkedIn is a granfalloon. Most of the people I really like and trust haven't bothered with LinkedIn, while most of the people who have invited me to link up with them have been people I know only marginally. Very few of them really know what I'm good at, and I don't know much about them, except that I worked with them a while.
That said, one thing that convinced me LinkedIn was worth a little bit of my time is that almost none of the people in my close association is able to help me find work in my area of expertise. The ones I have worked with who have bothered to invite me to link up with them at least might be convinced to pass my resume on. My wife just secured her current job through a LinkedIn connection. (OTOH, she has been utterly miserable since starting the job, but that's because of a particular personality that she didn't meet during the interviews, but with whom she has had to work closely.)
Of course, one disappointing thing about LinkedIn is that it doesn't have Friends, Foes, and Freaks. There are a very few people whom I never want to work with again, and when they show up as potential contacts, I politely ignore them.
I like starting out with an overview like you do, but I made my living for a couple of years writing technical documentation for lawyers. They didn't want to understand anything. They just wanted simple, idiot-proof instructions:
Click Message.
Click New.
Click on the Address book icon.
Find the name of the person you want to email and click on his/her name.
. . .
Click send.
Profit.
Start out with a simple statement of the objective: Follow this procedure to find out where the network problem is. Indent for sub-steps, and use small text boxes to define things like "valid traffic". Use a consistent style; for example, we always used bold face for anything the user would see on the screen.
If the people using your documentation want to understand stuff, they will ask you to give a seminar, or they will even RTFM as you did.
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Women have always been beautiful enough for evolutionary purposes, just as men have always been sufficiently whatever-it-is-women-want for evolutionary purposes. Every parent of a teenager knows this, and every teenager does not.
In particular, prostate surgery has a very high risk of causing impotence. It would be nice if this new method could replace surgery altogether, at least for less severe cases.
Yeah, and if they could develop the surgery-free treatment real fast, that would be great. My prostatectomy is scheduled for next Monday, and I'd be delighted to skip it.
How bad can it really be, they are just lawyers?
Lawyers aren't the worst, but they're certainly a challenge. Supporting lawyers, you have really smart people who spend all their time studying the intricacies of legal documents and the law, who generally have way more stuff to read than they have time for. The last thing they want to do is learn to understand how computers work. I know whereof I speak, because I worked for two years in IT litigation support, mostly writing how-to documentation.
To the original poster, my advice is to keep working your day job and pick up computer skills in evening classes and personal reading/experimentation. A computer science degree is useful the first couple of years, but as you accumulate experience, you'll find the degree is less of an issue.
Try EdgeGuard or AppGuard. They provide protection against malware from USB drives or zero-day web site exploits. (Full disclosure: I work for the company that produces these.)
ADVERTISERS are Anti-Privacy People!!! They would create massive databases tracking every single man woman and child on the planet if they could and many are still working on that very thing.
e.e. cummings had a real good poem on the subject.
We're all the brainless pawns in their business strategies and plans.
But we're not brainless. We can write poems and can post to /. That probably explains why you don't have an Chevrolet Vega in your driveway, among other things.
Probably the easiest way to achieve this is to give her a cell phone and pay for the locator service. If she values the phone, she'll keep it with her. However, like several people have already commented, teach your child how to call you. Remember that your primary goal in parenting is to raise a self-sufficient adult. Ending up on the wrong school bus is only the beginning of the crises she will face in life.
Good luck!
Why not just let them leave?
That was sort of my thinking, too. FWIW, TFA now says that only foreigners will have their fingerprints taken, not U.S. citizens. So this plan is even more idiotic: Illegal aliens are already trying to pass as U.S. citizens, so the fingerprinting will catch none of them.
I don't understand U.S. immigration policy. A couple of weekends ago, I had breakfast at a local diner and learned that our Ukrainian waitress was here on a temporary guest-worker visa. This is a job that pretty well nearly everybody can do, in a town where such employment is not seasonal in nature, so how is this justified? In the realm of pushing down wages and inhibiting employment of U.S. citizens, this is no better than an illegal alien who snuck across the border.
Is Playing a DVD Harder Than Rocket Science?
Hmmm, let's think about this. The Germans were playing with V2s in the 1940s, and the Soviets put a satellite into orbit in 1957; in 1969, NASA was still doing some calculations with slide rules. The DVD was introduced in the mid-1990s and requires some fairly serious computer technology plus a technology called light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation (LASER) which wasn't available until the 1960s.
I think playing a DVD is harder.
If I get hit by a bus or throw in the towel for any reason, I'd be leaving behind a network that requires some significant expertise to run. Ultimately, this won't be a good reference for me if they are trying to work out technical details for years to come.
If you are hit by a bus, you won't be worrying about references for a while. There are less painful ways to throw in the towel.
They should just stick to the most reliable password of all, mother's maiden name. Who the hell else would know that?
I assume you are making a joke. One source is public records. If you're married in the U.S., there is a marriage record on file in the courthouse of the county where you're married. This record is open to the public, and (at least in the state where I live), it lists the names of the couple's parents, as well as the places of birth of the couple. That tells me where you were born.
The courthouse of the county where you were born will have your mother's maiden name on your birth record -- which I believe is also a public record -- and, if I remember correctly, also your father's birth info.
I've started using a friend's mother's maiden name. The big problem comes when I can't remember whether the account was set up before or after I started this practice.
As for most of the other special questions I've seen, they are either easily guessed by someone who knows me fairly well, or they are such obscure things that I may well forget them in about ten years -- long before I expect Alzheimer's has kicked in. You'd think I shouldn't have to worry about people who know me, but remember that most frauds are perpetrated by people who know the victim.
I own two wireless mice, one by Logitech (part of a a combo set containing a wireless keyboard) and the other by (gasp!) Microsoft. Both of these things worked with my Debian laptop right out of the box. I hadn't bothered with getting a Bluetooth interface when I bought my laptop.
I just bought a laptop for my synagogue and got the "XP downgrade". While choosing components and accessories, I noticed two things: that the Bluetooth software needed on the laptop depended on whether I was getting XP or Vista, and that the same Microsoft mouse I own was going to cost half what the Bluetooth mouse was going to cost. I chose the proprietary mouse.
My wife has a Bluetooth mouse she bought at my suggestion for her XP laptop, and she has never reported any problem with it; however, I don't think she uses it much, as I found it behind the couch the other day.
It seems to me that these proprietary wireless things must do more of their processing in hardware than on the CPU, and I continue to by mystified as to why the proprietary devices continue to be significantly cheaper than the open standard ones.
. . . when ACs wrote someone's name on the bathroom wall. Come to think if it, where the <bleep> where the campus police then?
And besides, it's Massachusetts. Why would anyone there care if a person's gay or not?
I think it's a bad summary. I had no problem turning up the authors listed in the article. It'll be interesting to see how Amazon's "recommendations" change for me. I guess some people pay attention to the page rankings, but I don't. It's not censorship if I can still buy the book from them.
If we all pitch in and send a copy of the titles listed in TFA to Cowboy Neal (whom I am suggesting simply because he is a convenient victim), Amazon will have to reassess their page rankings. I'm sure that when Brokeback Mountain was in the theaters, there was no way they'd have failed to list it as a bestseller.
I tried it as a parent because I was raised that way. I stopped when I realized that if I kept doing it, I would likely end up being one of those people we read about in the paper who abuse their kids. I'll let you know in about 20 years whether the non-violent approach of counting her "out" we have been using works, but if I had it to do again, I'd never lay a hand on my kid, and I'll never advise anyone to do so. Spanking or using physical pain means the parent has lost control.
Maybe I'm old, or just odd, but changing the i's to y's immediately brought up alternative sexual preferences and lifestyles (e.g., womyn). Not that there's anything wrong with it, but I don't see it as attracting more of the mainstream audience.
. . . about a decade later in a letter to Bell's father-in-law.
Take a look at Israel in Google Maps and tell me if their handling of it prevents terrorism in that nation.
Duluth or Minneapolis, what's the difference? From what I hear, sending someone to Minnesota in late February/early March is punishment enough.
What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
People want a simple answer. We hate having to think, and it's easy to be distracted and make a mistake solving a complex problem, particularly when we're in a hurry. Most of the time, these simple answers are good enough, but sometimes we're bitten by them.
I can't find a link to support it, but my recollection is that the "cooperation" was initially allowing the Border Patrol agents to access the encrypted data.
I can't think of anything illegal on my computing devices, but I have pretty much decided to wipe my cell phone and/or computer anytime I cross a national border.
FWIW, reading the text of the complaint, I really dislike the fact that this is the guy who's the poster boy for civil rights. It smells even worse than defending freedom of speech for the KKK and the Nazis.
The author said this was a large company. I'd be surprised if their policy is for HR to do anything more than confirm "Yes, he worked here from X to Y" when called for a reference check, even if the employee is fired for cause. From what I've read over the last few years, that's the trend. So a manager who threatens to give a bad reference is unlikely to ever have a shot at doing so unless his name is offered as a reference. Rule 1 for people looking for a job is to never name a reference who will do anything other than gush over how great the person was.
Besides, if one already has a new job lined up, the company doing the threatening will already be two jobs back the next time a reference check is needed.
It's sad but true. When an employee does something wrong it's unprofessional. When an employer does something wrong it's business.
Neither of the companies that have laid me off so far gave me a poke in the eye. In all of the companies where I've worked that have had layoffs, they have tried to do it in a dignified way, with an offer as much help as they could afford in the circumstances.
One would think that would at least let them know you were a safe hire from a sexual harassment point of view.
LinkedIn is a granfalloon. Most of the people I really like and trust haven't bothered with LinkedIn, while most of the people who have invited me to link up with them have been people I know only marginally. Very few of them really know what I'm good at, and I don't know much about them, except that I worked with them a while.
That said, one thing that convinced me LinkedIn was worth a little bit of my time is that almost none of the people in my close association is able to help me find work in my area of expertise. The ones I have worked with who have bothered to invite me to link up with them at least might be convinced to pass my resume on. My wife just secured her current job through a LinkedIn connection. (OTOH, she has been utterly miserable since starting the job, but that's because of a particular personality that she didn't meet during the interviews, but with whom she has had to work closely.)
Of course, one disappointing thing about LinkedIn is that it doesn't have Friends, Foes, and Freaks. There are a very few people whom I never want to work with again, and when they show up as potential contacts, I politely ignore them.
I like starting out with an overview like you do, but I made my living for a couple of years writing technical documentation for lawyers. They didn't want to understand anything. They just wanted simple, idiot-proof instructions:
. . .
Start out with a simple statement of the objective: Follow this procedure to find out where the network problem is. Indent for sub-steps, and use small text boxes to define things like "valid traffic". Use a consistent style; for example, we always used bold face for anything the user would see on the screen.
If the people using your documentation want to understand stuff, they will ask you to give a seminar, or they will even RTFM as you did.