In such a case, I believe it's required that an advocate for the state, usually a social worker, be appointed and present during the interview. Basically, you're not supposed to interrogate a minor without SOME kind of adult present. Doesn't mean it doesn't happen though.
There are a ton of things that/could/ be, but that doesn't matter. We don't know/what/ his options were, and it could have been as simple as take this job or lose the house. Stop imaging up options for this guy. He had a specific problem he wanted a solution for, not some vague moral dilemma about taking an out of state job and how terrible of a person would be because of it.
It's a comfort and protection thing. It's the same reason people wear shoes, or gloves if they're doing something that may otherwise wear/cut the hands. When you think of someone who rides 30 miles daily (not an outlandish number AT ALL if you're into it), the number of times you cycle your legs is certainly enough to chafe if you're just wearing boxers and shorts, for example. Of course, some may wear them to prove they're serious about cycling, or because they WANT people to look at their labia, but that's just people being silly geese.
IBM needs accountants and HR people and have tons of other jobs that need doing that one doesn't particularly need (and probably don't have) a technical background in order to do. Declaring someone technically savvy based on their place of business and age without more info is about as useful as diagnosing a mental illness based on facebook pictures. Wait, do you work for manulife?
It needn't be anything exotic, a can of RAID will do the trick quite nicely. In fact, plenty of boring, household chemicals will stop a person's life functions just fine.
You're assuming it would take more than 1 dirty bomb attack and the ensuing craziness to make this country turn in and eat itself. Which, quite frankly, is more credit than I'd give.
At the last place I worked (FL state agency, 17kish users), any requests for stuff to go out to the All Employees DL had to go through either the help desk, which we passed to the server admins, or directly through one of the 10 or so people with access to it. Did a pretty good job of keeping the chaff out of it.
The best way to handle that is to ask the user if they've ever had more than 1 car. If they say yes, ask them if they know how to roll down the windows in the new one. If they say yes, tell them they just got a new car.
Everyone's happy!
That's basically it. The increased motivation "kicks in" well before the anti-depression components start to take effect. So after taking it, you are still depressed and generally hate your life but now you have a rather unnatural motivation to DO something about it. That something is suicide for a lot of people.
I'm appalled at how many people remove the responsibility of regular backups from the user, and instead expect their web browser and various other software to be a catchall for their own laziness.
Similarly, user education continues to be a far better malware scanner than anything I've seen on the market.
Noone wants to learn how to use their computer. Computers are just appliances to the vast majority of users. Microwave, TV, Computer, Dishwasher, Car (yes car), etc. They expect the internet to be just like cable TV (that is, it's harmless in terms of being an attack vector) just with a million channels. This attitude might change one day, but it's unlikely, and the only way an OS is going to propagate in the meantime is by conceding to that mentality. Computers are still magic to, probably billions of people, and they like it that way.
Regular people are never going to notice Linux until it becomes something that does not need to be noticed at all. At which time it'll become all the rage.
It's a/little/ inflammatory, (but really, this is/. and inflammatory is our thing) but it's not like the guy doesn't have a perfectly valid point. I don't think people realize just how much bloody money gets spent on things that are designed to/explode/. Even if you ignore the people that generally die or get injured when these gadgets reach the end of their very short useful lifespan, it's an incredible waste of resources. It's quite literally throwing time, money and actual corporeal resources into the ether.
Even giving half of our (the U.S.) military budget to other more socially minded programs (I'm thinking education, healthcare, energy and general infrastructure) would have huge positive effects on our country. It's a really absurd amount of money and manpower, and the results of late have been kind of lackluster. We could be throwing that money at useful things and be getting actual results, but we aren't.
This. Evolution does not operate solely in the world of physical attributes. Behavior, either a drastic, one time action on the part of an individual or something subtle passed on from generation to generation can be just as influential in the evolutionary course of a species as having bigger muscles, sharper teeth, or thicker eggshells.
Or that money could have changed lots of Iraqi lives in a big, ambiguously bad way. Given the track record of the people who've been spending the most money, I'm perfectly happy that the funds went to Hubble.
What we get from all this is a better understanding of the/universe/ around us. Considering the likely alternate uses of that cash, I'd say it's as good an expenditure as any. Or hey, we could just take the entire expenditure of the hubble project thus far and fund like 2 months of the military action in Iraq.
Most slashdotters can relate to the story about the computer cables, but how many are in a position to hear a woman complain about her hair? Especially one that's been in the same place for an hour.
Improper could simply be a deviation of SOP, perhaps even due to a suspicion of the integrity of the IT dept. (GASP) It's unlikely, but it's still/possible/ and any investigator worth his salt would want to determine just how foul the play was before proceeding. The question here isn't whether the incident was inappropriate, it was. It's a question of motive, of degree.
And in the case of a murder, yes, that's exactly right, it would be prudent to determine the method and motivation behind it before moving forward with some kind of punishment. You are aware that both crimes (fraud and murder) prompt different penalties depending on the degree of the infraction according to US law? Not saying I agree with it, but that degree has to be ascertained before punishment can go forward.
Except that you can watch a human being tally votes, and you can have a second person look at any votes that get invalidated to make sure they're legitimately invalid. You can do neither of those with a machine.
That said, the best way to do it is to have a simple, hand marked ballot counted by simple machines that store the paper ballots in locked boxes. This way you have a real ballot you can count with a real person if the machine count seems fishy (or if the either party requests it). Votes that are invalidated by the machine should be separated and flagged as such before the voter leaves so they may be reviewed and recast if necessary. Imo.
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If you're competent enough to ask for local admin, setting up a NAT port forward should be cake.
WAKE UP SHEEPLE!
In such a case, I believe it's required that an advocate for the state, usually a social worker, be appointed and present during the interview. Basically, you're not supposed to interrogate a minor without SOME kind of adult present. Doesn't mean it doesn't happen though.
Honestly, all you have to do is hammer a screwdriver through the platters and toss it in a dumpster.
Who do you know that doesn't use wikipedia?
I always just ask them if their mechanic asks them to try to start the the highway when they bring their car in to have it looked at.
There are a ton of things that /could/ be, but that doesn't matter. We don't know /what/ his options were, and it could have been as simple as take this job or lose the house. Stop imaging up options for this guy. He had a specific problem he wanted a solution for, not some vague moral dilemma about taking an out of state job and how terrible of a person would be because of it.
It's a comfort and protection thing. It's the same reason people wear shoes, or gloves if they're doing something that may otherwise wear/cut the hands. When you think of someone who rides 30 miles daily (not an outlandish number AT ALL if you're into it), the number of times you cycle your legs is certainly enough to chafe if you're just wearing boxers and shorts, for example. Of course, some may wear them to prove they're serious about cycling, or because they WANT people to look at their labia, but that's just people being silly geese.
IBM needs accountants and HR people and have tons of other jobs that need doing that one doesn't particularly need (and probably don't have) a technical background in order to do. Declaring someone technically savvy based on their place of business and age without more info is about as useful as diagnosing a mental illness based on facebook pictures. Wait, do you work for manulife?
It needn't be anything exotic, a can of RAID will do the trick quite nicely. In fact, plenty of boring, household chemicals will stop a person's life functions just fine.
You're assuming it would take more than 1 dirty bomb attack and the ensuing craziness to make this country turn in and eat itself. Which, quite frankly, is more credit than I'd give.
At the last place I worked (FL state agency, 17kish users), any requests for stuff to go out to the All Employees DL had to go through either the help desk, which we passed to the server admins, or directly through one of the 10 or so people with access to it. Did a pretty good job of keeping the chaff out of it.
The best way to handle that is to ask the user if they've ever had more than 1 car. If they say yes, ask them if they know how to roll down the windows in the new one. If they say yes, tell them they just got a new car. Everyone's happy!
That's basically it. The increased motivation "kicks in" well before the anti-depression components start to take effect. So after taking it, you are still depressed and generally hate your life but now you have a rather unnatural motivation to DO something about it. That something is suicide for a lot of people.
Oh no, I'm pretty sure Milla Jovovich is about as close to perfect as it gets.
Similarly, user education continues to be a far better malware scanner than anything I've seen on the market.
Noone wants to learn how to use their computer. Computers are just appliances to the vast majority of users. Microwave, TV, Computer, Dishwasher, Car (yes car), etc. They expect the internet to be just like cable TV (that is, it's harmless in terms of being an attack vector) just with a million channels. This attitude might change one day, but it's unlikely, and the only way an OS is going to propagate in the meantime is by conceding to that mentality. Computers are still magic to, probably billions of people, and they like it that way.
Regular people are never going to notice Linux until it becomes something that does not need to be noticed at all. At which time it'll become all the rage.
It's a /little/ inflammatory, (but really, this is /. and inflammatory is our thing) but it's not like the guy doesn't have a perfectly valid point. I don't think people realize just how much bloody money gets spent on things that are designed to /explode/. Even if you ignore the people that generally die or get injured when these gadgets reach the end of their very short useful lifespan, it's an incredible waste of resources. It's quite literally throwing time, money and actual corporeal resources into the ether.
Even giving half of our (the U.S.) military budget to other more socially minded programs (I'm thinking education, healthcare, energy and general infrastructure) would have huge positive effects on our country. It's a really absurd amount of money and manpower, and the results of late have been kind of lackluster. We could be throwing that money at useful things and be getting actual results, but we aren't.
This. Evolution does not operate solely in the world of physical attributes. Behavior, either a drastic, one time action on the part of an individual or something subtle passed on from generation to generation can be just as influential in the evolutionary course of a species as having bigger muscles, sharper teeth, or thicker eggshells.
Sadly, this is mostly untrue.
Or that money could have changed lots of Iraqi lives in a big, ambiguously bad way. Given the track record of the people who've been spending the most money, I'm perfectly happy that the funds went to Hubble.
/universe/ around us. Considering the likely alternate uses of that cash, I'd say it's as good an expenditure as any. Or hey, we could just take the entire expenditure of the hubble project thus far and fund like 2 months of the military action in Iraq.
What we get from all this is a better understanding of the
Sea Sharrrrrrrrrp, even.
Most slashdotters can relate to the story about the computer cables, but how many are in a position to hear a woman complain about her hair? Especially one that's been in the same place for an hour.
Improper could simply be a deviation of SOP, perhaps even due to a suspicion of the integrity of the IT dept. (GASP) It's unlikely, but it's still /possible/ and any investigator worth his salt would want to determine just how foul the play was before proceeding. The question here isn't whether the incident was inappropriate, it was. It's a question of motive, of degree.
And in the case of a murder, yes, that's exactly right, it would be prudent to determine the method and motivation behind it before moving forward with some kind of punishment. You are aware that both crimes (fraud and murder) prompt different penalties depending on the degree of the infraction according to US law? Not saying I agree with it, but that degree has to be ascertained before punishment can go forward.
Dude, move, you're blocking the TV.
Except that you can watch a human being tally votes, and you can have a second person look at any votes that get invalidated to make sure they're legitimately invalid. You can do neither of those with a machine.
That said, the best way to do it is to have a simple, hand marked ballot counted by simple machines that store the paper ballots in locked boxes. This way you have a real ballot you can count with a real person if the machine count seems fishy (or if the either party requests it). Votes that are invalidated by the machine should be separated and flagged as such before the voter leaves so they may be reviewed and recast if necessary. Imo.