For me personally, since we're a small company and cashflow is tight I personally follow a "10% IPA rule". No more than 10% of my time can be spent on non-Income-Producing-Activity.
I wonder how many other Slashdotters thought "IPA" meant something else until they read on.;-)
You mean like how they currently add acetaminophen to most opiates (check out your next codeine prescription) so that if you take too much you'll suffer liver damage?
Indeed.
"The drug acetaminophen, which is the active ingredient in the popular Tylenol, among others, is widely considered safe when taken correctly. Yet, the pain reliever can lead to liver damage that is often severe or even fatal when taken in doses greater than recommended. The problem is, however, that the margin between a safe dose and a potentially harmful dose is slim. Taken over several days, as little as 25 percent above the maximum daily dose - or just two additional extra strength pills a day - has been reported to cause liver damage, according to the [Food and Drug Administration]. "
We still do not surely know who is Satoshi Nakamoto.
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say his father was German. Nobody believed he was real. Nobody ever saw him or knew anybody that ever worked directly for him, but to hear DPR tell it, anybody could have been Nakamoto. You never knew. That was his power. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that, poof. He's gone.
Just take the battery out. Physically remove it. Or if you want to be 110% sure don't carry a phone at all, it's not like it's law that you have to carry one.
The health insurance industry did this about twenty years ago (ish. I don't remember exactly). Instead of binning people by risk and associated cost, they starting looking at people on an individual level and simply denying those who might not be profitable. It sounds good when you're angry at irresponsible drivers, and it certainly makes money for the insurance companies, but it doesn't work when you're dependent on cars on driving to make your infrastructure work and when insurance is an integral part of that (required in many states).
"I don't have to outrun the bear; I only have to outrun you."
You don't even need to outrun your peer if you just deliberately trip him. From what I've read of M$'s stack-ranking, this is how it works in practice.
I've had the misfortune of needing to use an Oracle system with a web interface to deal with a large client for construction management & billing. If that experience is any indication of how Oracle will fix the problem, the Feds would be better off keeping the very crappy existing system. (seriously)
You were lucky you only had to work with their product. I had the misfortune of being at Sun Microsystems when the mindless Oracle borg took over. I bailed out within two years.
Sadly, Apollo Computer had this concept 20+ years ago. The Apollo Domain Operating System was built from the ground up as a network operating system. Everything from the kernel up was designed with networking in mind. It was a brilliant yet ultimately dead operating system. The biggest downfall was being expensive and proprietary. Sun Microsystems won through a cheaper alternative and doomed us forever with NFS.
I had the misery of working with Apollos at one employer. There were two major issues in my opinion:
1. Security: There wasn't any. If you logged into just *one* host, you could change ANYTHING on ANY OTHER HOST.
Imagine NFS-exporting "/" read/write to the world.
2. There was an environment variable that could be set to mimic either SYSV Unix, of BSD Unix.
The reality was it didn't emulate either, making attempts to compile/run open-source sw an exercise in futility.
My sis has an implanted defibrillator. It's a weird experience to be sitting in a doctors office when a technician comes in with a machine to test the installation.
"I just need to turn up your blood pressure and heart rate for a minute" says the tech, as casually as ordering a cup of coffee.
A couple of button presses later, the look of shock on my sister's face as she realized that she was not, in a very literal sense, in control of her own heart is something I'll never forget.
She needs her implanted defibrillator but, holy shit, the power she must cede to Miss Random Device Technician by having it in her body is scary as all hell.
You are describing a *pacemaker*, not a defibrillator.
A defibrillator does nothing unless it detects the heart has gone into V-fib, then it applies a shock which momentarily stops the heart, enabling the heart to reset its self back to normal rhythm.
"In the bed is a (presumably) zombie-proof Truck Vault storage unit, containing a solar power pack, gas masks, gloves, a military First Aid kit, a folding shovel, and rope. Mounted atop the storage locker are a generator, fuel can, and food and water rations."
Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.
... but here's an exercise that will translate into the real world... Separate them into two groups, the "M" group, and the "E" group.
The Ms ties the Es group's hands up behind their backs. Then the Ms set themselves on fire, and have to coerce the Es to put the fire out with their hands tied up. If the Ms survive, they get more Es and go again. If the don't, they're replaced with a new M, preferably one from outside who has no idea what just happened.
If I had mod points today, I'd change this from "funny" to "insightful". It pretty much describes the miserable conditions of the company I just quit. I won't give any names, but the filthy rich CEO has a thing for sailboats. That experience left such a bad taste in my mouth wrt IT, that I am looking into going back to college for an entirely different career.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillon,_Colorado
Damn.
My money was on it being one of these: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/90/Fringe_The_Arrival.jpg/250px-Fringe_The_Arrival.jpg
For me personally, since we're a small company and cashflow is tight I personally follow a "10% IPA rule". No more than 10% of my time can be spent on non-Income-Producing-Activity.
I wonder how many other Slashdotters thought "IPA" meant something else until they read on. ;-)
...but nothing short of a script rewrite could help them.
I am waiting for the headline that Ballmer has decided to move to Google !!!!
Why do you hate Google? :-(
Stay off his lawn!
You mean like how they currently add acetaminophen to most opiates (check out your next codeine prescription) so that if you take too much you'll suffer liver damage?
Indeed.
"The drug acetaminophen, which is the active ingredient in the popular Tylenol, among others, is widely considered safe when taken correctly. Yet, the pain reliever can lead to liver damage that is often severe or even fatal when taken in doses greater than recommended. The problem is, however, that the margin between a safe dose and a potentially harmful dose is slim. Taken over several days, as little as 25 percent above the maximum daily dose - or just two additional extra strength pills a day - has been reported to cause liver damage, according to the [Food and Drug Administration]. "
Article: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/09/acetaminophen-deaths-cast-shadow-on-popular-pain-reliever.html
We still do not surely know who is Satoshi Nakamoto.
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say his father was German. Nobody believed he was real. Nobody ever saw him or knew anybody that ever worked directly for him, but to hear DPR tell it, anybody could have been Nakamoto. You never knew. That was his power. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that, poof. He's gone.
"Did you ever take that test yourself? Deckard?"
faraday cage cell phone case
Just take the battery out. Physically remove it. Or if you want to be 110% sure don't carry a phone at all, it's not like it's law that you have to carry one.
Try removing the battery from an iPhone.
The health insurance industry did this about twenty years ago (ish. I don't remember exactly). Instead of binning people by risk and associated cost, they starting looking at people on an individual level and simply denying those who might not be profitable. It sounds good when you're angry at irresponsible drivers, and it certainly makes money for the insurance companies, but it doesn't work when you're dependent on cars on driving to make your infrastructure work and when insurance is an integral part of that (required in many states).
This article discusses this very point on health insurance: http://www.cringely.com/2013/10/26/big-data-destroying-u-s-healthcare-system/
"I don't have to outrun the bear; I only have to outrun you."
You don't even need to outrun your peer if you just deliberately trip him.
From what I've read of M$'s stack-ranking, this is how it works in practice.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hunting-the-nightmare-bacteria/
Scariest thing I've watched in a long time.
I've had the misfortune of needing to use an Oracle system with a web interface to deal with a large client for construction management & billing. If that experience is any indication of how Oracle will fix the problem, the Feds would be better off keeping the very crappy existing system. (seriously)
You were lucky you only had to work with their product.
I had the misfortune of being at Sun Microsystems when the mindless Oracle borg took over.
I bailed out within two years.
Dammit; No mod points today.
Hey! Someone please mod the parent up!!!
Sadly, Apollo Computer had this concept 20+ years ago. The Apollo Domain Operating System was built from the ground up as a network operating system. Everything from the kernel up was designed with networking in mind. It was a brilliant yet ultimately dead operating system. The biggest downfall was being expensive and proprietary. Sun Microsystems won through a cheaper alternative and doomed us forever with NFS.
I had the misery of working with Apollos at one employer.
There were two major issues in my opinion:
1. Security: There wasn't any. If you logged into just *one* host, you could change ANYTHING on ANY OTHER HOST.
Imagine NFS-exporting "/" read/write to the world.
2. There was an environment variable that could be set to mimic either SYSV Unix, of BSD Unix.
The reality was it didn't emulate either, making attempts to compile/run open-source sw an exercise in futility.
My sis has an implanted defibrillator. It's a weird experience to be sitting in a doctors office when a technician comes in with a machine to test the installation.
"I just need to turn up your blood pressure and heart rate for a minute" says the tech, as casually as ordering a cup of coffee.
A couple of button presses later, the look of shock on my sister's face as she realized that she was not, in a very literal sense, in control of her own heart is something I'll never forget.
She needs her implanted defibrillator but, holy shit, the power she must cede to Miss Random Device Technician by having it in her body is scary as all hell.
You are describing a *pacemaker*, not a defibrillator.
A defibrillator does nothing unless it detects the heart has gone into V-fib, then it applies a shock which momentarily stops the heart, enabling the heart to reset its self back to normal rhythm.
"In the bed is a (presumably) zombie-proof Truck Vault storage unit, containing a solar power pack, gas masks, gloves, a military First Aid kit, a folding shovel, and rope. Mounted atop the storage locker are a generator, fuel can, and food and water rations."
Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.
Everyone should have a single "Supermod" point once per month that would work as a normal mod point except it would allow going past +5.
So after the holidays we could quickly read the articles with only the very few +6+ posts.
Unless it goes to 11, I'm not impressed.
I have a colleague working there, in the Oracle Campus,...
He has my deepest sympathies.
I thought this was kind of common knowledge. Penn and Teller's Bullshit even showed how they beat the polygraph.
Penn & Teller: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NLf7XwLpyQ
60 Minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROhp2aS9pQU
Really all you need to know about Polygraphs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROhp2aS9pQU
Penn & Teller also did an episode of "Bullshit!" on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NLf7XwLpyQ
gimme a roomba, a broom stick and a pivoting webcam.
Pervert.
"Please put down your weapon! You have 20 seconds to comply!"
... but here's an exercise that will translate into the real world... Separate them into two groups, the "M" group, and the "E" group.
The Ms ties the Es group's hands up behind their backs. Then the Ms set themselves on fire, and have to coerce the Es to put the fire out with their hands tied up. If the Ms survive, they get more Es and go again. If the don't, they're replaced with a new M, preferably one from outside who has no idea what just happened.
If I had mod points today, I'd change this from "funny" to "insightful".
It pretty much describes the miserable conditions of the company I just quit.
I won't give any names, but the filthy rich CEO has a thing for sailboats.
That experience left such a bad taste in my mouth wrt IT, that I am looking into going back to college for an entirely different career.