I worked at a large health insurance company for nearly 10 years. I was pretty gung ho when I started there but the place slowly wore me down. Horrible management (except for one person) that lied to it's employees (about important things like "Are you going to move the office to another town 90 miles away?") while slowly outsourcing our jobs to India.
They would fire people by waiting till the person left the building to go to lunch then have their supervisor box up all the personal stuff at the desk and meet them when they came back from lunch, in the lobby, to hand them their box and take their security badge. I saw many nice people walk away crying.
When I finally had enough and got a different job I just called my supervisor the day before I was starting my new job and said "I quit". I have no qualms about doing so either.
Half Past Human and The Godwhale are pretty awesome and seem to be pretty forgotten. Dr. Bassler died last December and it didn't make a blip on any internet science fiction sites that I noticed.
While there are plenty of hard SF books that deal with physics and that sort of thing, these two books had some 'hard' biology, which I thought was pretty cool.
My fiance was a student at Chico State within the last 5 years and she just found out last night that she had been hit for $39.99 from a Pluto Data Inc scam.
http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/60769
I wonder if they are somehow connected? She has only used her credit card online a few times.
Frank Herbert wrote a book called Hellstrom's Hive that involved a secret group of human hive dwellers. It's been a while since I read it but I liked it then.
My dad is in his mid 60s and has been using a computer for about 10 years now. I stopped by my parent's house last year and he told me he was cancelling his dial up service because he had so much crap on his computer.
I took his computer, wiped it clean and put a new copy of windows 2k on it along with firefox and thunderbird. I told him not to use IE or outlook, only use the two programs I had put on his computer for him.
He's still using the internet now, several months later and is very happy with the Mozilla programs. I put Zonealarm on his computer too and he loves getting the little pop up messages telling him it's blocked something. He has told several of his friends that they need to switch over to firefox also.
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I worked at a large health insurance company for nearly 10 years. I was pretty gung ho when I started there but the place slowly wore me down. Horrible management (except for one person) that lied to it's employees (about important things like "Are you going to move the office to another town 90 miles away?") while slowly outsourcing our jobs to India. They would fire people by waiting till the person left the building to go to lunch then have their supervisor box up all the personal stuff at the desk and meet them when they came back from lunch, in the lobby, to hand them their box and take their security badge. I saw many nice people walk away crying. When I finally had enough and got a different job I just called my supervisor the day before I was starting my new job and said "I quit". I have no qualms about doing so either.
Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
An article about Anthony Watts? This is a low point for Slashdot.
Half Past Human and The Godwhale are pretty awesome and seem to be pretty forgotten. Dr. Bassler died last December and it didn't make a blip on any internet science fiction sites that I noticed. While there are plenty of hard SF books that deal with physics and that sort of thing, these two books had some 'hard' biology, which I thought was pretty cool.
and I didn't speak out because I was not a genius.
Has anybody done some sort of audit of various bank's online security procedures to find which, if any, have a decent setup?
You use a term like 'enviro-nazis' and I quit reading what you are saying. Grow up.
... is watching you masturbate.
"Sorry, your brain does not meet the system requirements for this game."
Where we don't put up with this sort of heavy handed government nonsense. You poor Brits.
take that, Google! Who's the innovator now?
check out www.archive.org for a large selection of legal live music downloads.
My fiance was a student at Chico State within the last 5 years and she just found out last night that she had been hit for $39.99 from a Pluto Data Inc scam. http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/60769 I wonder if they are somehow connected? She has only used her credit card online a few times.
"What will be the disposition of the DNA of the innocent?" Some corporation will copyright it. You won't own yourself anymore.
Frank Herbert wrote a book called Hellstrom's Hive that involved a secret group of human hive dwellers. It's been a while since I read it but I liked it then.
My dad is in his mid 60s and has been using a computer for about 10 years now. I stopped by my parent's house last year and he told me he was cancelling his dial up service because he had so much crap on his computer. I took his computer, wiped it clean and put a new copy of windows 2k on it along with firefox and thunderbird. I told him not to use IE or outlook, only use the two programs I had put on his computer for him. He's still using the internet now, several months later and is very happy with the Mozilla programs. I put Zonealarm on his computer too and he loves getting the little pop up messages telling him it's blocked something. He has told several of his friends that they need to switch over to firefox also.