NO, this is misinformation. A fingerprint scanner used for time clocking does NOT keep or display any image of your fingerprint. This is simply INCORRECT.
Fingerprints and other information stored on one one "computer" can be accessed from other "computers" sometimes without the knowledge or permission in charge of the information.
Are you an idiot or only playing one on the internet? You do realize that a fingerprint biometric scanner doesn't actually STORE a fingerprint?
Flamebait??! Your socialist work for free agenda will NOT stifle the ideals of democracy where people get fair pay for work performed!! REBEL AGAINST THE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE SOCIALIST OVERLORDS !!!!!
So this guy subverts authority, lies, is completely incompetent, blames failures on others, and somehow this is my fault??
Yes it is management fault (I'm not management) for not getting rid of him when I stated what was going on, but this idiot is by no means blameless. Saying this is entirely managements fault is just naive.
The same reason why Ford was responsible for the Pinto design that allegedly resulted in the gas tank exploding on a rear end collision. A collision is not normal use of the car (could be considered an attack) but they were still held responsible.
f your team is not well run, you have a management failure, not a programmer problem.
Not always. Sometime you have a jackass programmer that refuses to listen to any pre-written architecture, refuses to listen to QA, and thinks that he can just produce code in complete isolation from the rest of the team. He believes that code will be perfect and if there are problems, its because of all the other idiots he's forced to work with.
I've had the unfortunate experience of having such an arrogant ass working for me, and the only way to fix this is to kick his incompetent butt off the team.
Modern software development, much like the production of a motion picture, is a complex team effort, and singling out one sub-group of such an organization for punishment when failures occur (as it happens, the ones least responsible for such failures in shipping code) is just this side of brain-dead.
If we're talking about making software engineering responsible just like any other engineering discipline (which I COMPLETELY agree with) then to corporate entity would take responsibility, not an individual engineer. That's one of the benefits of working under a corporate umbrella - legal indemnity (in most countries anyway).
Unless of course you are contracting yourself out for engineering services, in which case you are most likely liable for the correctness of what you produce.
The colder it gets, the less the atmosphere will have the capacity to hold moisture. At some point, like -40, the atmosphere holds so little water that snow is almost impossible.
However, given the right conditions, it can snow in almost any temperature.
I think the real reason is simple. People older than me (almost 40) are likely to be mainframe programmers. Back then, there weren't a lot of computers.
Yes and we only had wind up light bulbs as electricity hadn't been invented yet either.
Give me a break. I'm over 40 and have NEVER programmed on a mainframe, nor has anyone I know. Maybe if you said people over 60 I'd agree with you.
Nonsense. Nuclear is the greenest energy available, unless you are geographically lucky enough to live next to mountains where you can build hydroelectric stations without having to flood thousands of acres of land.
IT does make economic sense. Here in Ontario about 45% of the power generated is nuclear (from 3 stations) and another 35% is hydroelectric (from 65 stations). The rest is on demand fossil fuel. Clearly nuclear is far more efficient and less of an environmental footprint from a construction point of view.
"Tide" is a silly concept we earthbound adapted to understand the phenomena of the world's ocean's staying near the moon as we spin. Now part of the tide is in relation to the SPIN of the earth, the period of that rotation is slowly increasing over time, which is also decreasing the tidal forces ever so slightly... so if the universe never ended, eventually the gravity will stop the tide and the spin (or the moon will crash into the earth, I don't remember which happens first.)
What crazy fundamentalist school did you learn science in?? Tide happens because of the moons gravitational pull on the oceans. The moon is slowly receding from us (it will not crash into us). As the moon backs away, did the gravitational effect will become less and the tides will likewise become less. If the moon ever does break orbit, then we will have no tides.
Yeah, no. Inertia got it there, gravity helped it along. A comet at rest relative to another solar system wouldn't go anywhere, gravity would keep it there, it had to get moving somehow.
What the hell have you been smoking. The only way a comet at rest relative to another solar system wouldn't move is if it was exactly balanced by yet another gravity object. The odds of this occurring randomly are extremely low. If you somehow managed to stop the motion of a comet relative to a solar system, eventually gravity would pull it into that solar system.
Gravity gets it going - inertia happens as a consequence of the resultant relative motion.
Besides, the one thing you need to completely disprove the point of this summary is to realize that it was COLDER this year than last year and COLDER this year than average on the days with record snow. So saying "warmer temps caused the snow" is bullshit because temps were not warmer!
Not true in Canada. For the most part country wide there has been very little snow, and it's been much warmer than average. Where I am most lawns are bare of snow except for the occasional patch.
Actually it's quite rare for Vancouver to get much snow because of the warming effect of the Pacific - total expected snowfall accumulation in February is only 9cm. However, the temperature in Vancouver right now is what they would normally get in June, and it is extremely rare to have rain in the mountains in February.
You don't need a study for that. Just ask anyone who lives in a climate where they get snow during winter. The most snow occurs when the temperature is just below freezing and there is a such thing as "too cold to snow"
Because we are at the tail end of an ice age. The natural state of the planet is no ice at the poles - the way it has been for the majority of history.
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NO, this is misinformation. A fingerprint scanner used for time clocking does NOT keep or display any image of your fingerprint. This is simply INCORRECT.
Fingerprints and other information stored on one one "computer" can be accessed from other "computers" sometimes without the knowledge or permission in charge of the information.
Are you an idiot or only playing one on the internet? You do realize that a fingerprint biometric scanner doesn't actually STORE a fingerprint?
Agreed. There is no reason for a bank to take fingerprints, nor have I ever heard of such a thing.
However, implemented properly it could help prevent identity theft.
Wow - even more crazy. You wouldn't have a small plane pilots license would you?
Thank's for bringing the crazy to the discussion!
Your rights to what exactly?
I guess you aren't going to Canada any time soon.
I live in Canada and I've never been fingerprinted.
Flamebait??! Your socialist work for free agenda will NOT stifle the ideals of democracy where people get fair pay for work performed!! REBEL AGAINST THE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE SOCIALIST OVERLORDS !!!!!
So this guy subverts authority, lies, is completely incompetent, blames failures on others, and somehow this is my fault??
Yes it is management fault (I'm not management) for not getting rid of him when I stated what was going on, but this idiot is by no means blameless. Saying this is entirely managements fault is just naive.
Unfortunately, this guy was also incompetent in the quality of his coding.
Open source software is everything that closed source software is. Plus the source is available.
... with socialist overtones (lets work for free and release it so everyone can enjoy it! But if they do enjoy it, they have to work for free too!)
The same reason why Ford was responsible for the Pinto design that allegedly resulted in the gas tank exploding on a rear end collision. A collision is not normal use of the car (could be considered an attack) but they were still held responsible.
f your team is not well run, you have a management failure, not a programmer problem.
Not always. Sometime you have a jackass programmer that refuses to listen to any pre-written architecture, refuses to listen to QA, and thinks that he can just produce code in complete isolation from the rest of the team. He believes that code will be perfect and if there are problems, its because of all the other idiots he's forced to work with.
I've had the unfortunate experience of having such an arrogant ass working for me, and the only way to fix this is to kick his incompetent butt off the team.
Modern software development, much like the production of a motion picture, is a complex team effort, and singling out one sub-group of such an organization for punishment when failures occur (as it happens, the ones least responsible for such failures in shipping code) is just this side of brain-dead.
If we're talking about making software engineering responsible just like any other engineering discipline (which I COMPLETELY agree with) then to corporate entity would take responsibility, not an individual engineer. That's one of the benefits of working under a corporate umbrella - legal indemnity (in most countries anyway).
Unless of course you are contracting yourself out for engineering services, in which case you are most likely liable for the correctness of what you produce.
No. It isn't *always* cold at the poles.
The colder it gets, the less the atmosphere will have the capacity to hold moisture. At some point, like -40, the atmosphere holds so little water that snow is almost impossible.
However, given the right conditions, it can snow in almost any temperature.
I think the real reason is simple. People older than me (almost 40) are likely to be mainframe programmers. Back then, there weren't a lot of computers.
Yes and we only had wind up light bulbs as electricity hadn't been invented yet either.
Give me a break. I'm over 40 and have NEVER programmed on a mainframe, nor has anyone I know. Maybe if you said people over 60 I'd agree with you.
Nonsense. Nuclear is the greenest energy available, unless you are geographically lucky enough to live next to mountains where you can build hydroelectric stations without having to flood thousands of acres of land.
IT does make economic sense. Here in Ontario about 45% of the power generated is nuclear (from 3 stations) and another 35% is hydroelectric (from 65 stations). The rest is on demand fossil fuel. Clearly nuclear is far more efficient and less of an environmental footprint from a construction point of view.
"Tide" is a silly concept we earthbound adapted to understand the phenomena of the world's ocean's staying near the moon as we spin. Now part of the tide is in relation to the SPIN of the earth, the period of that rotation is slowly increasing over time, which is also decreasing the tidal forces ever so slightly... so if the universe never ended, eventually the gravity will stop the tide and the spin (or the moon will crash into the earth, I don't remember which happens first.)
What crazy fundamentalist school did you learn science in?? Tide happens because of the moons gravitational pull on the oceans. The moon is slowly receding from us (it will not crash into us). As the moon backs away, did the gravitational effect will become less and the tides will likewise become less. If the moon ever does break orbit, then we will have no tides.
Yeah, no. Inertia got it there, gravity helped it along. A comet at rest relative to another solar system wouldn't go anywhere, gravity would keep it there, it had to get moving somehow.
What the hell have you been smoking. The only way a comet at rest relative to another solar system wouldn't move is if it was exactly balanced by yet another gravity object. The odds of this occurring randomly are extremely low. If you somehow managed to stop the motion of a comet relative to a solar system, eventually gravity would pull it into that solar system.
Gravity gets it going - inertia happens as a consequence of the resultant relative motion.
is that some pundits (e.g. Shawn Hannity) decided to say that it "disproved" global warming.
Does ANYONE actually believe anything a Fox un-news pundit says?
Besides, the one thing you need to completely disprove the point of this summary is to realize that it was COLDER this year than last year and COLDER this year than average on the days with record snow. So saying "warmer temps caused the snow" is bullshit because temps were not warmer!
Not true in Canada. For the most part country wide there has been very little snow, and it's been much warmer than average. Where I am most lawns are bare of snow except for the occasional patch.
Actually it's quite rare for Vancouver to get much snow because of the warming effect of the Pacific - total expected snowfall accumulation in February is only 9cm. However, the temperature in Vancouver right now is what they would normally get in June, and it is extremely rare to have rain in the mountains in February.
You don't need a study for that. Just ask anyone who lives in a climate where they get snow during winter. The most snow occurs when the temperature is just below freezing and there is a such thing as "too cold to snow"
It's crazies like that that give science a bad name
Because we are at the tail end of an ice age. The natural state of the planet is no ice at the poles - the way it has been for the majority of history.