You have to listen/read carefully what Clinton said. The popular press reported it as "I did not have sex with that woman -- Monica Lewinsky." I believe what he really said was "I did not have sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky."
Notice the subtle difference. In the second analysis, he is not referring to Ms. Lewinsky, but in fact addressing her. Which opens the question: then what woman did he not have sex with? Hillary? (I couldn't blame him for not.) Then from whence Chelsea?
At least the way I read the article, the flaw allows a charge of 999,999.99 in ANY unit of currency, not specifically US dollars, or UK pounds, or Euros, or Dinars, or Rubles, or whatever.
I imagine the pilots find the windows useful, too. Sure, they can take off and land totally on instruments, but the instruments won't tell you everything you need to know about what you're about to fly into.
Would you silence a dissenting view? That is not healthy for scientific discourse, no matter how wrong you believe the dissenting view to be.
If you wish to silence them, silence them using facts, logic, and argument. Do not silence them through a political process. You would ask them to do the same for your.
I guess we need to send our letters in holographic envelopes that can only be read at an angle. Straight on, it just looks blank... or maybe a big finger. And that's probably what the camera will record.
But what is the carbon footprint of all this electricity that Earth is using? Surely that can't be good. We need a treaty with the other planets that curtails Earth's inordinate use of the universe's electricity! Why, it just might throw the interstellar ecosystem out of balance unless we get it under control!
Maybe that B.A. in History isn't such a bad degree to have after all. Now all you need to do is convince corporations they need to have a history department to manage all of their documentation in such a way that it is discoverable and accessible.
One of my favorite lines is, "Your data is secure. We just can't access it." In other words, if you are going to use a particular medium as an archive, you need to ensure that the data can be read from that medium, in perpetuity. If the technology is in danger of becoming obsolete, the archived data must be moved forward to new media.
Of course, that isn't enough. The data must be indexed in such a way that the information you need can be found. Finding a needle in a haystack is easy with modern technology; finding a hand-drawn flow chart explaining how a particular "black box" in your manufacturing plant converts X to Y (and why it's painted blue) among hundreds of thousands of pages of poorly indexed documentation is exceedingly difficult.
You may want to consult a lawyer, but in negotiating with the former company, you could demand that you be exonerated from violating company policy during your employment in return for supplying any corporate documentation you may discover in your possession. How did your employment contract and employee policy read, and are you past any statute of limitations regarding possession of IP during your period of employment? Considering what a jumble their documentation is in, could they even find a copy of your employment contract and employee policy that was in effect during your employment? If not, then would they be able to present a valid breach of contract case without producing the contract?
Also, considering that nature of this project, you aren't an ordinary outside consultant supplying new information or engineering of a subset of the plant, but rather a former employee recreating holistic institutional intellectual property on a contract basis. Therefore you should be granted employee-level clearance to access and discuss all current intellectual property as it relates to the project.
As far as personally retaining documents related to corporate operations, much of the information contained therein may be of your own design. This intellectual property, while legally the property of the corporation, is also your personal idea. The non-compete clause in many employment contracts implies that you cannot use the ideas you had while employed at another employer for a certain length of time, but once that time is passed you should be able to reuse those ideas. Therefore you should be able to retain at least that portion of intellectual property that is your creation; it may be best legally to recreate the rest from memory.
As an employee of a contract IT consulting firm, I retain copies of network documentation for many of my clients on my personal laptop. (My company does not supply computers to its employees, rather it is a Bring Your Own Device type of workplace.) I am not aware that I am in violation of any NDA by this, but it would be terribly inefficient if I could only keep such information in repositories under the control of each client. If a client requests documentation of their network that I have in my possession, I will provide it to them, charging only for any necessary modification to reflect current configurations. After all, it is THEIR intellectual property, which I have previously sold to them by charging for the time previously spent creating the documents.
Will I destroy this information when the client ceases to become a client, or when my employment is terminated? Probably not. Chances are, I'll archive it and give a copy of the archive media to my employer. I may keep an archive copy myself, since I don't trust my employer to be able to find the archive somewhere down the road. Shoot, I don't even trust MYSELF to find the archive, but the more copies there are floating around, the better the chances of finding it when needed. Of course, that means the chances of it falling into the wrong hands and becoming a tool of corporate espionage is greater as well.
My company charges a rate of $100-125/hour in our market (small blue-collar city in Pacific NW), depending on the experience of the tech. Most of our work is "time & materials" -- we do have a few clients who have us on a retainer for a specified number of hours per month. Most of the time involved is for weekly checkup & maintenance. Over that is T&M.
As the most experienced tech in my company (nine employees, of which 4 are technical and 2 are part-time developers), I am paid ~$45K/yr which is reasonable around here. Oh, sure, it would be nice to be paid more, but I have enough left over to support a house payment, car payment, basic living expenses, and have a little for charitable donations and discretionary spending. I am provided medical insurance and some limited retirement benefits.
We find that we need to maintain at least five billable hours billable per day to cover wages, benefits, and overhead.
A couple of things to consider when setting your rates: you want them low enough that you can keep busy (don't price yourself out of the market), but high enough to a) make a profit and b) make yourself unattractive to the people who whine and complain about every bill you send them.
Give nothing away. If you are there for an hour and a half, don't bill for an hour. If you told them you'd charge $125/hour, then don't drop it to $75. Save that for the disputed bill -- when they call and complain you can review the invoice and discuss why you are charging for X; you will at this point have some negotiation room and can give the customer credit (notice I said credit, not a discount). If you wipe out all your profit before you send the bill, you'll go broke in a hurry. Only in extreme cases should you give a discount.
Establish a minimum charge. We charge minimum 3/4 hour for onsite service, even if we're only there for 15 minutes. To be fair, I often try to fill up the 3/4 hour with other IT tasks that might otherwise be overlooked, like cleaning up a hard drive. We bill in 15 minute increments. For remote or telephone service, we'll generally waive the minimum charge. People get cranky when you charge $90 for a 5 minute phone call.
As a provider of IT services to small business, you must be very versatile (no specialization!) yet very knowledgable (specialize in everything!). Your employees must be able to think on their feet, and come up with creative solutions to strange problems. Things like restoring an Active Directory server from two corrupt backups (yes, I've done it - I don't remember how). Or hex editing a binary metafile to restore an Exchange database (done that, too).
No, I'm not going to give a plug for my company here. That would be shameless. Besides, I don't want you calling me to rebuild your Active Directory. You can't pay me enough to do that again.
(By the way, it was on New Year's Day when I restored the ADS server. I was on tech support for 8 hours with Microsoft, actually got escalated to an engineer in Redmond. Finally they said that it was unresolvable and that I'd have to rebuild the entire domain -- about 250 users -- from scratch. The backup tapes were not managed properly. The System State backup was spanning two tapes, and there wasn't a complete set: there was the first tape of one backup and the second tape of another backup. Enough data was on these partial backups to restore the domain.)
(C'mon, don't tell me you've never pressed on a URL on a printed page and expected something to happen.)
There was this time when I wasn't smokin something, I jokingly poked a URL in a book to demonstrate how people in the future might react when they come across one of those antique artifacts of history made of ink and dead trees sandwiched between two flat, hard, rectangular plates
Let's expand the math for a little bit. First, let's assume a national (USA) average of $0.09/kWh, as that makes the math a little easier. Nine bucks divided by 9 cents per kilowatt-hour equals 100 kilowatt-hours. 100 kilowatt-hours of energy dispensed over five minutes represents a power draw of 1200 kilowatts, or 1.2 megawatts, roughly one one-hundredth the capacity of the now-decomissioned Trojan Nuclear Power Plant near Porland, Oregon. Divide that by the standard US voltage of 240V AC, and you have a current draw of 5000 amps.
That requires some fat-ass wires.
As most homes in the US have a 200A electrical service, this represents the power draw of approximately 25 homes loaded to capacity. Further considering that the National Electrical Code requires that continuous load of a circuit be 20% less than the rating of the circuit (typical peak load would therefore be 160A), and that average peak load will probably be closer to 100A, this battery will represent to the electrical system a load equal to 30-50 homes!
I guess it's time for everyone to build nuclear power plants in their back yards.
I think a solution may be to have two stylii: one in the left hand, one in the right (maybe something that attaches to the finger like the pick some guitar players use). Then when you need to scroll, you can use the right hand for that; you could use the right hand for anything on the right side of the screen for that matter.
I find the most useful thing about being left-handed is the ability to deliver left-handed compliments.
As someone who learned how to drive a stick shift, believe me, trying to use the left foot on the brake of an automatic is a recipe for whiplash.
You see, the left foot only knows how to run the clutch. When you stomp on the clutch in an automatic, the tires tend to lock up and everything inside hits the windshield.
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You have to listen/read carefully what Clinton said. The popular press reported it as "I did not have sex with that woman -- Monica Lewinsky." I believe what he really said was "I did not have sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky."
Notice the subtle difference. In the second analysis, he is not referring to Ms. Lewinsky, but in fact addressing her. Which opens the question: then what woman did he not have sex with? Hillary? (I couldn't blame him for not.) Then from whence Chelsea?
At least the way I read the article, the flaw allows a charge of 999,999.99 in ANY unit of currency, not specifically US dollars, or UK pounds, or Euros, or Dinars, or Rubles, or whatever.
I imagine the pilots find the windows useful, too. Sure, they can take off and land totally on instruments, but the instruments won't tell you everything you need to know about what you're about to fly into.
For a nominal fee of $30, you'll be able to open a fresh air vent over your head.
Would you silence a dissenting view? That is not healthy for scientific discourse, no matter how wrong you believe the dissenting view to be.
If you wish to silence them, silence them using facts, logic, and argument. Do not silence them through a political process. You would ask them to do the same for your.
So you're saying Hackathon was H@X0R3D?
"Covert acoustical mesh networks"?!? Housewives invented this thousands of years ago, only back then they called it "gossip."
I guess we need to send our letters in holographic envelopes that can only be read at an angle. Straight on, it just looks blank... or maybe a big finger. And that's probably what the camera will record.
That's not a privacy policy! That's a voyeurism policy.
But what is the carbon footprint of all this electricity that Earth is using? Surely that can't be good. We need a treaty with the other planets that curtails Earth's inordinate use of the universe's electricity! Why, it just might throw the interstellar ecosystem out of balance unless we get it under control!
Apparently that knowledge didn't include the fact that A LOT is two words.
Maybe that B.A. in History isn't such a bad degree to have after all. Now all you need to do is convince corporations they need to have a history department to manage all of their documentation in such a way that it is discoverable and accessible.
One of my favorite lines is, "Your data is secure. We just can't access it." In other words, if you are going to use a particular medium as an archive, you need to ensure that the data can be read from that medium, in perpetuity. If the technology is in danger of becoming obsolete, the archived data must be moved forward to new media.
Of course, that isn't enough. The data must be indexed in such a way that the information you need can be found. Finding a needle in a haystack is easy with modern technology; finding a hand-drawn flow chart explaining how a particular "black box" in your manufacturing plant converts X to Y (and why it's painted blue) among hundreds of thousands of pages of poorly indexed documentation is exceedingly difficult.
You may want to consult a lawyer, but in negotiating with the former company, you could demand that you be exonerated from violating company policy during your employment in return for supplying any corporate documentation you may discover in your possession. How did your employment contract and employee policy read, and are you past any statute of limitations regarding possession of IP during your period of employment? Considering what a jumble their documentation is in, could they even find a copy of your employment contract and employee policy that was in effect during your employment? If not, then would they be able to present a valid breach of contract case without producing the contract?
Also, considering that nature of this project, you aren't an ordinary outside consultant supplying new information or engineering of a subset of the plant, but rather a former employee recreating holistic institutional intellectual property on a contract basis. Therefore you should be granted employee-level clearance to access and discuss all current intellectual property as it relates to the project.
As far as personally retaining documents related to corporate operations, much of the information contained therein may be of your own design. This intellectual property, while legally the property of the corporation, is also your personal idea. The non-compete clause in many employment contracts implies that you cannot use the ideas you had while employed at another employer for a certain length of time, but once that time is passed you should be able to reuse those ideas. Therefore you should be able to retain at least that portion of intellectual property that is your creation; it may be best legally to recreate the rest from memory.
As an employee of a contract IT consulting firm, I retain copies of network documentation for many of my clients on my personal laptop. (My company does not supply computers to its employees, rather it is a Bring Your Own Device type of workplace.) I am not aware that I am in violation of any NDA by this, but it would be terribly inefficient if I could only keep such information in repositories under the control of each client. If a client requests documentation of their network that I have in my possession, I will provide it to them, charging only for any necessary modification to reflect current configurations. After all, it is THEIR intellectual property, which I have previously sold to them by charging for the time previously spent creating the documents.
Will I destroy this information when the client ceases to become a client, or when my employment is terminated? Probably not. Chances are, I'll archive it and give a copy of the archive media to my employer. I may keep an archive copy myself, since I don't trust my employer to be able to find the archive somewhere down the road. Shoot, I don't even trust MYSELF to find the archive, but the more copies there are floating around, the better the chances of finding it when needed. Of course, that means the chances of it falling into the wrong hands and becoming a tool of corporate espionage is greater as well.
Every so often, some filters will block samba.org as being in the "Arts & Entertainment" category.
Of course, if you listen to the folks in Redmond, Samba is just for entertainment anyway, not any serious work.
I also installed a glass door to keep liquor cold with a black light.
How in heck to you keep liquor cold with a black light?
Actually, he was Open-Sourced.
My company charges a rate of $100-125/hour in our market (small blue-collar city in Pacific NW), depending on the experience of the tech. Most of our work is "time & materials" -- we do have a few clients who have us on a retainer for a specified number of hours per month. Most of the time involved is for weekly checkup & maintenance. Over that is T&M.
As the most experienced tech in my company (nine employees, of which 4 are technical and 2 are part-time developers), I am paid ~$45K/yr which is reasonable around here. Oh, sure, it would be nice to be paid more, but I have enough left over to support a house payment, car payment, basic living expenses, and have a little for charitable donations and discretionary spending. I am provided medical insurance and some limited retirement benefits.
We find that we need to maintain at least five billable hours billable per day to cover wages, benefits, and overhead.
A couple of things to consider when setting your rates: you want them low enough that you can keep busy (don't price yourself out of the market), but high enough to a) make a profit and b) make yourself unattractive to the people who whine and complain about every bill you send them.
Give nothing away. If you are there for an hour and a half, don't bill for an hour. If you told them you'd charge $125/hour, then don't drop it to $75. Save that for the disputed bill -- when they call and complain you can review the invoice and discuss why you are charging for X; you will at this point have some negotiation room and can give the customer credit (notice I said credit, not a discount). If you wipe out all your profit before you send the bill, you'll go broke in a hurry. Only in extreme cases should you give a discount.
Establish a minimum charge. We charge minimum 3/4 hour for onsite service, even if we're only there for 15 minutes. To be fair, I often try to fill up the 3/4 hour with other IT tasks that might otherwise be overlooked, like cleaning up a hard drive. We bill in 15 minute increments. For remote or telephone service, we'll generally waive the minimum charge. People get cranky when you charge $90 for a 5 minute phone call.
As a provider of IT services to small business, you must be very versatile (no specialization!) yet very knowledgable (specialize in everything!). Your employees must be able to think on their feet, and come up with creative solutions to strange problems. Things like restoring an Active Directory server from two corrupt backups (yes, I've done it - I don't remember how). Or hex editing a binary metafile to restore an Exchange database (done that, too).
No, I'm not going to give a plug for my company here. That would be shameless. Besides, I don't want you calling me to rebuild your Active Directory. You can't pay me enough to do that again.
(By the way, it was on New Year's Day when I restored the ADS server. I was on tech support for 8 hours with Microsoft, actually got escalated to an engineer in Redmond. Finally they said that it was unresolvable and that I'd have to rebuild the entire domain -- about 250 users -- from scratch. The backup tapes were not managed properly. The System State backup was spanning two tapes, and there wasn't a complete set: there was the first tape of one backup and the second tape of another backup. Enough data was on these partial backups to restore the domain.)
(C'mon, don't tell me you've never pressed on a URL on a printed page and expected something to happen.)
There was this time when I wasn't smokin something, I jokingly poked a URL in a book to demonstrate how people in the future might react when they come across one of those antique artifacts of history made of ink and dead trees sandwiched between two flat, hard, rectangular plates
And when drawing, I'm always looking for the undo.
That's what that red, rubbery thing on the other end of the pencil is for.
I think somebody has beaten them to the "Save Our Garage!" punch.
Let's expand the math for a little bit. First, let's assume a national (USA) average of $0.09/kWh, as that makes the math a little easier. Nine bucks divided by 9 cents per kilowatt-hour equals 100 kilowatt-hours. 100 kilowatt-hours of energy dispensed over five minutes represents a power draw of 1200 kilowatts, or 1.2 megawatts, roughly one one-hundredth the capacity of the now-decomissioned Trojan Nuclear Power Plant near Porland, Oregon. Divide that by the standard US voltage of 240V AC, and you have a current draw of 5000 amps.
That requires some fat-ass wires.
As most homes in the US have a 200A electrical service, this represents the power draw of approximately 25 homes loaded to capacity. Further considering that the National Electrical Code requires that continuous load of a circuit be 20% less than the rating of the circuit (typical peak load would therefore be 160A), and that average peak load will probably be closer to 100A, this battery will represent to the electrical system a load equal to 30-50 homes!
I guess it's time for everyone to build nuclear power plants in their back yards.
I think a solution may be to have two stylii: one in the left hand, one in the right (maybe something that attaches to the finger like the pick some guitar players use). Then when you need to scroll, you can use the right hand for that; you could use the right hand for anything on the right side of the screen for that matter.
I find the most useful thing about being left-handed is the ability to deliver left-handed compliments.
As someone who learned how to drive a stick shift, believe me, trying to use the left foot on the brake of an automatic is a recipe for whiplash.
You see, the left foot only knows how to run the clutch. When you stomp on the clutch in an automatic, the tires tend to lock up and everything inside hits the windshield.
So will they let you take a tube of Mentos on board, then ask the flight attendant for a Diet Coke?
I expect RIM will soon produce a miniaturized blackberry that fits on a key chain and plugs directly into a USB port with no cable.
... the DONGLEBERRY!
Make way for (drum roll, please)