Naturally the job doesn't care, it is a thing, not capable of emotion or empathy. The question is how management care about/for you. My management is special, I'm 35 on my 3rd job within my company and my 5th job overall. I have no plans on leaving the group I'm in so long as any two of the three people directly above me stay above me. If it gets down to one then it becomes a matter of consensus, did the other two go to the same company or division? Then I'll likely go too, no loyalty to the company, just the people. They've bailed &&|| covered my ass and in exchange I am extra dedicated and honest with them. Simple as that.
To be honest, if I won the Lottery big enough, I would still go to work. I would switch to part time, put in an average of 15 hours a week, and vacation. I really enjoy my work. Hell, as long as my co-workers were still there I might even go into lunch a couple days a week, even if I did quit. It would likely take me a year just to offload all the stuff that I do to a green replacement. -nB
no, it's just funny that we are all so cynical and desensitized to large (or even medium) sized companies burying crap like this; then when called out, shifting the blame; that we praise the few companies that do the right thing because it is so rare.
Where I work, we had an incident. There was about a week of thrash internally about how to handle it. In the end we handled it the right way for the consumers (and by extension the right way for the shareholders in the long view, though certainly not in the short view). I am proud of my company, but can not post more of it here:(
That is Win8 in a nutshell. I have a feeling (having played with it for several months now) that it will be OK, but that MS will learn a lot on this gen and Win9 will be the next WinXPEmbeded while Win7 will stay mainstream in the enterprise. -nB
Which we know he will use as a solar sail to outrun the expanding sun. The sheer massiveness of his ego will contain enough atmosphere for the journey to the next planet that he can host Oracle on. -nB
At my old apartments we had a guy stealing gas out of peoples cars. My old beater truck had no viable way to lock the gas tank (I had a locking cap and he just broke it off, damaging the fill spout in the process). so, I went to a shop that had done work for me in the past and we put a new fill spout up through the truck bed into the tool box. The old fill spout was connected to a saddlebag tank filled with diesel.
Found out who was stealing gas when the guy with the camero started having engine trouble the day after the diesel was missing from my truck.
Or to sum up: They speak "cop" They make it easy for the police to to the "cop only" part of the job (search and seizure) They get your stuff back, even if you normally couldn't.
My contract says *nothing* of the sort. It has some vague language about not sharing internet service with neighbors, but only to the extent that making my SSID name private_whatever is good enough. The router they provided me even has the ability to create a guest WiFi network that can use my internet but not access my LAN, to me that looks as if they expect some level of sharing of my connection.
Now, that is not to say it wouldn't be prudent to use WPA2, just that it is not required. -nB
We do that here too. 32 gig thumb drive sneakernet token ring is our carrier media of choice. Of course we learned from the mistakes of others like the app team the re-purposed an old staging server to be an MP3 filer... things went sub optimally for them.
We are more relaxed where I am at, but there are still provisions to mitigate commercial risk. FTP is banned without a waver. SFTP is allowed but you must log in to a proxy for it i.e: to get to ftp.example.com : ftp open proxy.core.com username is user@ftp.example.com password is your password at ftp.example.com
This does two things: it gives the proxy server your username and password, which dissuades most people from using it as there is no guarantee that IT won't capture that data, and second the proxy logs the machine account that connected to the proxy server and the username that logged into that account.
We allow "reasonable personal use" of the internet at the office, so Facebook and such are fine at breaks/lunch/whatever. Proxy bypass sites SSH tunnels, etc. are blocked and while there are ways around that as you noted bypassing the procedures raise alarms.
I regularly hit proxy blocks in my line of work and my boss gets summary e-mails once a quarter about my hits. He ignores them because one of my jobs is security hardening, so going to blackhat and greyhat sites is part of my job. -nB
easy... go to the time of the civil war in the US. Make a big to do about the boatload of diamonds on the ship (of which there are a few, the rest still in your FTL timeship). Sink the ship in a reasonable depth of water. Travel to the time you want to start selling them. Go on a treasure finding mission. "find" the "lost" diamonds that you retrieved from your FTL timeship. -nB
The counterpoint of this is that if *everyone* assumed someone smarter than them was already "on it", then the forward progress of our society would grind to a halt. Calling someone out on it is counter productive because it discourages asking questions, thus making you simply a troll. Science is all about asking questions. In fact I learned something because of their question. It is something that had I thought about it I likely could have come up with the answer, but having it elucidated for me was helpful, and that was about not being able to tell (and ways you could possibly tell) whether the arsenic was merely sticking to the DNA strand, or if it was actually in place of the phosphorous.
Remember the greatest discoveries are not usually preceded by "eureka!", but rahter "hmmm... that's funny". -nB
For a lot of items that is worth it. for example my kitchen knives, they are rather expensive (not absurd, but easily 10x the price of the cheap walmart set), and worth every penny. I expect at some point my kids will be using them after I am dead. much of my tools are of a similar build quality. I want to trust my tools not to break, at all under normal use, and not catastrophically under above max rating use. i.e. using a non rated socket on an impact driver. cheap socket will fracture and grenade, throwing shards of cheap chrome steel all over the place. high end sockets may break and crack, but usually only along one fault line then the socket expands and spins on the nut head, but does not throw debris. -nB
this depends on your usage. I am in the US on one of the major carriers, but on a pre-paid phone. I used to have a plan phone, but I did the math and I was paying ~$2.40/minute based on (plan costs) / (average usage). I switched to a pre-paid and I buy $100 worth of minutes at a time (expire in one year, renew for a year with any minute adds like a $10 card). I now pay ~$0.12/minute and use that $100 card in about 7 months.
If you are a heavy user or text a lot then a plan phone makes sense. If you are a very light user then the pre-paid plans work out well. Pre-paid phones cost as little as $30, which while not free, is still heavily subsidized. -nB
the orange should be timed such that if you are in the solid paint lines at the intersection queue (where the left turn lane often starts) at the speed limit then you should be able to not slow or speed and make the intersection, while if you are outside that zone you will also have a reasonable distance to stop within. -nB
not all crops need full sun. the building should be narrow and long with the long face pointed such that it gets the most sun. plants that need the most light go closest to the windows, while mushrooms and such can go on the far side.
for some crops this won't work, but for others (potatoes, tomatoes, lettuces, cucumbers, etc.) it should work fine. -nB
I think the difference there is that the tats, while covered by clothes, are a physical thing that can be seen, whereas a key that is solely memorized is non tangible.
I picked it up here on/. as an abbreviation and given the sensitivity of the topic I don't like typing it in longform in my posts (especially if I am going through the office proxy server).
Not keeping your applications private (actually the windows registry, Mac equivalent) is a real problem because both these systems store lots of file data not actually with the file.
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Naturally the job doesn't care, it is a thing, not capable of emotion or empathy.
The question is how management care about/for you. My management is special, I'm 35 on my 3rd job within my company and my 5th job overall. I have no plans on leaving the group I'm in so long as any two of the three people directly above me stay above me. If it gets down to one then it becomes a matter of consensus, did the other two go to the same company or division? Then I'll likely go too, no loyalty to the company, just the people. They've bailed &&|| covered my ass and in exchange I am extra dedicated and honest with them. Simple as that.
There is a book, I highly recommend: Moral Mazes http://www.amazon.com/Moral-Mazes-World-Corporate-Managers/dp/0199729883/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1326514612&sr=8-1 (not a sponsored link). Read it, understand it, and while I can not promise invincibility in your career, it comes damn close.
-nB
To be honest, if I won the Lottery big enough, I would still go to work.
I would switch to part time, put in an average of 15 hours a week, and vacation. I really enjoy my work. Hell, as long as my co-workers were still there I might even go into lunch a couple days a week, even if I did quit.
It would likely take me a year just to offload all the stuff that I do to a green replacement.
-nB
Bummer I just had a business idea. I'll loan you $100 against your car. you owe me payments of $5/month. The interest is $60/year...
-nB
How about "Bing" or is that still under (C) by Monty Python?
We have it, in outlook.
you simply schedule a half day meeting and tag it as OOO (makes it purple in the shared calendar .
no, it's just funny that we are all so cynical and desensitized to large (or even medium) sized companies burying crap like this; then when called out, shifting the blame; that we praise the few companies that do the right thing because it is so rare.
Where I work, we had an incident. There was about a week of thrash internally about how to handle it. In the end we handled it the right way for the consumers (and by extension the right way for the shareholders in the long view, though certainly not in the short view). I am proud of my company, but can not post more of it here :(
That is Win8 in a nutshell.
I have a feeling (having played with it for several months now) that it will be OK, but that MS will learn a lot on this gen and Win9 will be the next WinXPEmbeded while Win7 will stay mainstream in the enterprise.
-nB
Which we know he will use as a solar sail to outrun the expanding sun. The sheer massiveness of his ego will contain enough atmosphere for the journey to the next planet that he can host Oracle on.
-nB
brake fluid.
it'll eat the paint off a car, so I imagine it would do the same to the engine components.
At my old apartments we had a guy stealing gas out of peoples cars.
My old beater truck had no viable way to lock the gas tank (I had a locking cap and he just broke it off, damaging the fill spout in the process).
so, I went to a shop that had done work for me in the past and we put a new fill spout up through the truck bed into the tool box. The old fill spout was connected to a saddlebag tank filled with diesel.
Found out who was stealing gas when the guy with the camero started having engine trouble the day after the diesel was missing from my truck.
I smiled.
-nB
Or to sum up:
They speak "cop"
They make it easy for the police to to the "cop only" part of the job (search and seizure)
They get your stuff back, even if you normally couldn't.
not all of them. There are some firmware anti-theft products that will brick the notebook if it is stolen.
-nB
My contract says *nothing* of the sort.
It has some vague language about not sharing internet service with neighbors, but only to the extent that making my SSID name private_whatever is good enough.
The router they provided me even has the ability to create a guest WiFi network that can use my internet but not access my LAN, to me that looks as if they expect some level of sharing of my connection.
Now, that is not to say it wouldn't be prudent to use WPA2, just that it is not required.
-nB
We do that here too.
32 gig thumb drive sneakernet token ring is our carrier media of choice.
Of course we learned from the mistakes of others like the app team the re-purposed an old staging server to be an MP3 filer...
things went sub optimally for them.
We are more relaxed where I am at, but there are still provisions to mitigate commercial risk.
FTP is banned without a waver.
SFTP is allowed but you must log in to a proxy for it i.e:
to get to ftp.example.com :
ftp open proxy.core.com
username is user@ftp.example.com
password is your password at ftp.example.com
This does two things:
it gives the proxy server your username and password, which dissuades most people from using it as there is no guarantee that IT won't capture that data, and second the proxy logs the machine account that connected to the proxy server and the username that logged into that account.
We allow "reasonable personal use" of the internet at the office, so Facebook and such are fine at breaks/lunch/whatever. Proxy bypass sites SSH tunnels, etc. are blocked and while there are ways around that as you noted bypassing the procedures raise alarms.
I regularly hit proxy blocks in my line of work and my boss gets summary e-mails once a quarter about my hits. He ignores them because one of my jobs is security hardening, so going to blackhat and greyhat sites is part of my job.
-nB
easy...
go to the time of the civil war in the US.
Make a big to do about the boatload of diamonds on the ship (of which there are a few, the rest still in your FTL timeship). Sink the ship in a reasonable depth of water.
Travel to the time you want to start selling them.
Go on a treasure finding mission.
"find" the "lost" diamonds that you retrieved from your FTL timeship.
-nB
The counterpoint of this is that if *everyone* assumed someone smarter than them was already "on it", then the forward progress of our society would grind to a halt.
Calling someone out on it is counter productive because it discourages asking questions, thus making you simply a troll.
Science is all about asking questions. In fact I learned something because of their question. It is something that had I thought about it I likely could have come up with the answer, but having it elucidated for me was helpful, and that was about not being able to tell (and ways you could possibly tell) whether the arsenic was merely sticking to the DNA strand, or if it was actually in place of the phosphorous.
Remember the greatest discoveries are not usually preceded by "eureka!", but rahter "hmmm... that's funny".
-nB
For a lot of items that is worth it.
for example my kitchen knives, they are rather expensive (not absurd, but easily 10x the price of the cheap walmart set), and worth every penny. I expect at some point my kids will be using them after I am dead.
much of my tools are of a similar build quality. I want to trust my tools not to break, at all under normal use, and not catastrophically under above max rating use. i.e. using a non rated socket on an impact driver. cheap socket will fracture and grenade, throwing shards of cheap chrome steel all over the place. high end sockets may break and crack, but usually only along one fault line then the socket expands and spins on the nut head, but does not throw debris.
-nB
this depends on your usage.
I am in the US on one of the major carriers, but on a pre-paid phone.
I used to have a plan phone, but I did the math and I was paying ~$2.40/minute based on (plan costs) / (average usage).
I switched to a pre-paid and I buy $100 worth of minutes at a time (expire in one year, renew for a year with any minute adds like a $10 card). I now pay ~$0.12/minute and use that $100 card in about 7 months.
If you are a heavy user or text a lot then a plan phone makes sense. If you are a very light user then the pre-paid plans work out well. Pre-paid phones cost as little as $30, which while not free, is still heavily subsidized.
-nB
the orange should be timed such that if you are in the solid paint lines at the intersection queue (where the left turn lane often starts) at the speed limit then you should be able to not slow or speed and make the intersection, while if you are outside that zone you will also have a reasonable distance to stop within.
-nB
two and three are all you need.
You can claim you thought you saw a cat/dog/child/buffalo/griffin/whatever.
My solution to tailgating when I was on my way home from a paintball match was to toss a handful of balls out the sunroof.
-nB
not all crops need full sun.
the building should be narrow and long with the long face pointed such that it gets the most sun.
plants that need the most light go closest to the windows, while mushrooms and such can go on the far side.
for some crops this won't work, but for others (potatoes, tomatoes, lettuces, cucumbers, etc.) it should work fine.
-nB
I think the difference there is that the tats, while covered by clothes, are a physical thing that can be seen, whereas a key that is solely memorized is non tangible.
I picked it up here on /. as an abbreviation and given the sensitivity of the topic I don't like typing it in longform in my posts (especially if I am going through the office proxy server).
Not keeping your applications private (actually the windows registry, Mac equivalent) is a real problem because both these systems store lots of file data not actually with the file.