...eventually.
Either the NIMBY people will get all concerned that "Something might go wrong!" "What if it catches on fire?!" "There's no way that can be environmental or legal!"
OR
The energy companies will lobby to REQUIRE that federal law prohibits re-using the cells from internally sealed battery packs as "They just aren't safe!". They'll cite public battery fires and MSDS listing the "Volatile internal chemicals!" in the batteries that are safely contained UNLESS OPENED.
These power walls are far too easy to convert for solar or wind use so you can be sure they represent a threat to the power companies. You can bet that they will try and squash any attempt to get away from a completely dependent energy system.
I'll take my vacation sure!
But while I'm gone it's one more opportunity for them to "forget" how much work I do. And that's working a regular 51 hours a week (yeah I'm a lightweight in the industry) and being extremely productive while doing so.
I'm over 40 in "the biz" so EVEN if I had full certs, and EVEN if they were current, and EVEN with a TON of experience, If I'm let go, I'm unlikely to get employed at anything but the lowest technical position.
This has already happened to me once. If I want to keep paying my bills and supporting my family I can't let that happen again.
Fear runs this business in a lot of places.
You're doing it wrong. It should be the other way around. The company should be afraid that you will leave with valuable experience and knowledge.
You should only have FOMO, fear of missing out. Someone else grabs a nice opportunity when you're on vacation.
When agism is rampant in multiple industries, and when there are people who will work for much less than I am, then the companies have the upper hand.
I'm not disagreeing that things should be different - just pointing out that they currently aren't.
I'll take my vacation sure!
But while I'm gone it's one more opportunity for them to "forget" how much work I do. And that's working a regular 51 hours a week (yeah I'm a lightweight in the industry) and being extremely productive while doing so.
I'm over 40 in "the biz" so EVEN if I had full certs, and EVEN if they were current, and EVEN with a TON of experience, If I'm let go, I'm unlikely to get employed at anything but the lowest technical position.
This has already happened to me once. If I want to keep paying my bills and supporting my family I can't let that happen again.
Fear runs this business in a lot of places.
I treat everyone's email the same: I don't read it. I may see subject lines but I don't see the technical reason requiring you to read them.
What happens when you get a request from management to help them identify/bring to their attention people potentially 'abusing' the e-mail system, such as by e-mailing sensitive information out of the organization, or by identifying employee(s) sending e-mail that are obscene, abusive, harrassing, or contain inappropriate language?
That's an official request from management and is part of your job at that point even if it wasn't before. Inform HR of what you've been asked to do and if there's a conflict let them hash it out. Document everything and keep a personal copy of the documentation in a safe offline place. If you get fired for doing your job you either have enough documentation to take legal action (if you can afford it) or enough to clear your name if it becomes necessary.
Started about a year ago. They are turned on when the shift starts and can't be turned off until the shift has ended.
Mounted on a hat above the right ear and they have sound.
Indiana, by the way.
This is absolutely needed. The powers that be forget far too often that they themselves are human and not only make mistakes but are corruptible as well. Kudos to your locals for doing this!
Of course this wouldn't stop a sudden application of silly putty on the lense and/or microphone. The mic would be the better choice there - "I'm sorry sir but we seemed to have had audio transmission issues during that incident."
I guess what I'm saying is, get an stm32. Or msp430 if you're ok writing in windows only.
And MPS430 actually has support in Linux now. Google for "mps430 linux" and you'll find a host of options. One of those is a port of the Arduino IDE called Energia. Though that one is not ready completely yet. (I had trouble getting it to run on Mint13.)
Regardless the TI Launchpad stuff is supported well enough outside of Windows.
No.
You can make a zipgun out of a ball point pen. Everyone has the ability to make a weapon; most people simply don't have the need, desire, or psychosis to do so.... and admittedly, many don't have the imagination for it either.
First - the internet doesn't immediately rank as a survival item. Not even close.
BUT I agree with your point that it should be very close after satisfying those needs.
The problem is that a great many companies want to lock down what you can and can't learn on the Internet. They want you to be nice little servants and only learn those things that don't open the doors to you thinking about things other than those immediate survival things.
The more you educate people in how to think and what's available outside their front door the more free they become. The more free they become the less they wonder why they should pay heed to those in power.
And to those in power that's a dangerous thing. And until we fix the system (not likely any time soon) you will see them clamp down and clamp down hard on anything they consider a threat to their nice cushy positions.
I have nothing digitally worth risking the life or myself or my family.
Really when you come down to it a disaster is just that and keeping the people around you safe is a million times more important than anything else you may have.
That said my choice of solutions would be a FedEx box full of hard drives to a friend across the country or a good tape safe that is water and fire resistant.
Of course like most I/T people I don't back up nearly enough. ^_^
Better than, I'm supposed to use this dingly dangly to do work, but the tools I'm allowed to use don't quite do what I need. If I could just use this app I could increase productivity, but IT has the system so locked down that to even think about using a different app is grounds for termination.
Face it, IT's job is to facilitate the rest of the company's performance of the real purposes of the company. IT doesn't make money for the company it enables the money making areas to make the money. A wise IT dept allows users to add additional tools, but with the caveat that the only fix available is a system wipe and restore to original configuration. The Users are responsible for keeping their data backed up.
As to the Gadget aspect, if the company didn't buy it, the company isn't responsible to fix it. If the company did, the company should have an extra stockpile, and any broken gadget is simply replaced with a baseline new one, again leaving it up to the employee to restore the apps and data they want. And it's the employee's job if their failure to maintain a backup causes critical data to be lost.
Okay, everybody tell me how wrong I am.
You're not wrong. But neither is the parent. And this is all known by anyone that's been in the I/T field for any serious length of time. It's all a balancing act. And since you have to balance security with efficiency your friend through all the pitfalls (besides common sense) is documentation. Make the end user sign a piece of paper saying the device is his and will only be supported for X purpose and only to Y point.
When the user breaks something you told them is unsupported past a certain point that documentation will help point the user in the right direction and keep both yourself and the company safe from rampant I broke my $device while doing company work on it! Fix it or get me a new one!
First - I want to see in the license where it requires them to pull it
off systems.
Second - What the hell are they going to replace it with? Are they saying
you have to download and install Java manually? OpenJDK
supposedly doesn't work with all things.
Third - What does this mean for Ubuntu derivatives like Mint? Are they
going to have to pull the jdk as well?
Forth - Can we _please_ take up a collection to have the Oracle execs
framed for terrorism and shipped off to Gitmo?
The first two Doctor Who feature films weren't so bad. Why do you think this one will be?
Because this director specifically says he wants to completely depart from the existing Doctor Who. In the hands of Hollywood that can only mean a disastrous big budget action film that means nothing to existing fans and would be Doctor Who only in name.
It would be a large-scale train wreck similar to the US version of Top Gear.
You can almost certainly do this on a standard farm but likely it's going to be much much easier to do this with a hydroponics setup with side rails allowing robots to move quickly up and down the rows to place and tend the plants.
The big thing in this type of scenario I think that would still require the "human touch" so to speak would be harvesting. You could probably handle that with video recognition and soft grippers but there's still a chance of damaging the plant while picking the fruit/vegetable.
And harvesting vined plants would be problematic to say the least. Large melons and squash that are ground fruit would be particularly difficult.
I don't see "farmbas" doing harvesting any time soon. Not cheaply at least.
don't blame the artist, they are getting shafted by the same ass-clowns that are issuing out these notices. The RIAA steals so much money from them it's unbelievable. I just wish that the suit against the Canadian RIAA hadn't been settled and had gone the course. Then, at least, the artists would have had some semblance of hope in seeing some money back from the thieves ill-gotten gains.
Part of what needs to happen is the artists need to stand up for themselves and stop being the slaves that the **AA turn them into.
Unfortunately most of them are stuck on the golden hamster wheel and are afraid to get off.
Slashdot Mirror
80k right behind ya.
:-(
He will definitely be missed.
...eventually. Either the NIMBY people will get all concerned that "Something might go wrong!" "What if it catches on fire?!" "There's no way that can be environmental or legal!"
OR
The energy companies will lobby to REQUIRE that federal law prohibits re-using the cells from internally sealed battery packs as "They just aren't safe!". They'll cite public battery fires and MSDS listing the "Volatile internal chemicals!" in the batteries that are safely contained UNLESS OPENED.
These power walls are far too easy to convert for solar or wind use so you can be sure they represent a threat to the power companies. You can bet that they will try and squash any attempt to get away from a completely dependent energy system.
I'll take my vacation sure! But while I'm gone it's one more opportunity for them to "forget" how much work I do. And that's working a regular 51 hours a week (yeah I'm a lightweight in the industry) and being extremely productive while doing so. I'm over 40 in "the biz" so EVEN if I had full certs, and EVEN if they were current, and EVEN with a TON of experience, If I'm let go, I'm unlikely to get employed at anything but the lowest technical position. This has already happened to me once. If I want to keep paying my bills and supporting my family I can't let that happen again. Fear runs this business in a lot of places.
You're doing it wrong. It should be the other way around. The company should be afraid that you will leave with valuable experience and knowledge.
You should only have FOMO, fear of missing out. Someone else grabs a nice opportunity when you're on vacation.
When agism is rampant in multiple industries, and when there are people who will work for much less than I am, then the companies have the upper hand.
I'm not disagreeing that things should be different - just pointing out that they currently aren't.
I'll take my vacation sure! But while I'm gone it's one more opportunity for them to "forget" how much work I do. And that's working a regular 51 hours a week (yeah I'm a lightweight in the industry) and being extremely productive while doing so. I'm over 40 in "the biz" so EVEN if I had full certs, and EVEN if they were current, and EVEN with a TON of experience, If I'm let go, I'm unlikely to get employed at anything but the lowest technical position. This has already happened to me once. If I want to keep paying my bills and supporting my family I can't let that happen again. Fear runs this business in a lot of places.
I treat everyone's email the same: I don't read it. I may see subject lines but I don't see the technical reason requiring you to read them.
What happens when you get a request from management to help them identify/bring to their attention people potentially 'abusing' the e-mail system, such as by e-mailing sensitive information out of the organization, or by identifying employee(s) sending e-mail that are obscene, abusive, harrassing, or contain inappropriate language?
That's an official request from management and is part of your job at that point even if it wasn't before. Inform HR of what you've been asked to do and if there's a conflict let them hash it out. Document everything and keep a personal copy of the documentation in a safe offline place. If you get fired for doing your job you either have enough documentation to take legal action (if you can afford it) or enough to clear your name if it becomes necessary.
Started about a year ago. They are turned on when the shift starts and can't be turned off until the shift has ended.
Mounted on a hat above the right ear and they have sound.
Indiana, by the way.
This is absolutely needed. The powers that be forget far too often that they themselves are human and not only make mistakes but are corruptible as well. Kudos to your locals for doing this!
Of course this wouldn't stop a sudden application of silly putty on the lense and/or microphone. The mic would be the better choice there - "I'm sorry sir but we seemed to have had audio transmission issues during that incident."
And MPS430 actually has support in Linux now. Google for "mps430 linux" and you'll find a host of options. One of those is a port of the Arduino IDE called Energia. Though that one is not ready completely yet. (I had trouble getting it to run on Mint13.)
Regardless the TI Launchpad stuff is supported well enough outside of Windows.
No. You can make a zipgun out of a ball point pen. Everyone has the ability to make a weapon; most people simply don't have the need, desire, or psychosis to do so.... and admittedly, many don't have the imagination for it either.
Technically a zipgun is made from plumbing parts: http://www.scribd.com/doc/23323372/Zipguns-Pipe-Guns-Silencers
But you're right about the imagination.
It happens enough in the US that prosecutors are willing to do unethical and sometimes illegal things to get their conviction.
Sad but all too true.
(Posting to remove mis-mod.)
1984 and/ or Soylent Green. The movie was so depressing. Would never bother to read the book. Was there an actual novel ?
"Make Room! Make Room!" by Harry Harrison.
Heh, I can see the ads now: "You wouldn't steal a galactic assault cruiser . . ."
Dammit! Now I want the Thingiverse files for a galactic assault cruiser!
*searches E-Bay for quantum string reels for his Makerbot*
http://filkertom-itom.blogspot.com/2007/08/049-wikipirates.html
They've got nothing else to do..."
The more free they become the less they wonder why they should pay heed to those in power.
Sorry - meant "The more free they become the MORE they wonder why they should pay heed to those in power."
First - the internet doesn't immediately rank as a survival item. Not even close.
BUT I agree with your point that it should be very close after satisfying those needs.
The problem is that a great many companies want to lock down what you can and can't learn on the Internet. They want you to be nice little servants and only learn those things that don't open the doors to you thinking about things other than those immediate survival things.
The more you educate people in how to think and what's available outside their front door the more free they become. The more free they become the less they wonder why they should pay heed to those in power.
And to those in power that's a dangerous thing. And until we fix the system (not likely any time soon) you will see them clamp down and clamp down hard on anything they consider a threat to their nice cushy positions.
I have nothing digitally worth risking the life or myself or my family.
Really when you come down to it a disaster is just that and keeping the people around you safe is a million times more important than anything else you may have.
That said my choice of solutions would be a FedEx box full of hard drives to a friend across the country or a good tape safe that is water and fire resistant.
Of course like most I/T people I don't back up nearly enough. ^_^
'Scuse me....something I gotta go do...
Better than, I'm supposed to use this dingly dangly to do work, but the tools I'm allowed to use don't quite do what I need. If I could just use this app I could increase productivity, but IT has the system so locked down that to even think about using a different app is grounds for termination. Face it, IT's job is to facilitate the rest of the company's performance of the real purposes of the company. IT doesn't make money for the company it enables the money making areas to make the money. A wise IT dept allows users to add additional tools, but with the caveat that the only fix available is a system wipe and restore to original configuration. The Users are responsible for keeping their data backed up. As to the Gadget aspect, if the company didn't buy it, the company isn't responsible to fix it. If the company did, the company should have an extra stockpile, and any broken gadget is simply replaced with a baseline new one, again leaving it up to the employee to restore the apps and data they want. And it's the employee's job if their failure to maintain a backup causes critical data to be lost. Okay, everybody tell me how wrong I am.
You're not wrong. But neither is the parent. And this is all known by anyone that's been in the I/T field for any serious length of time. It's all a balancing act. And since you have to balance security with efficiency your friend through all the pitfalls (besides common sense) is documentation. Make the end user sign a piece of paper saying the device is his and will only be supported for X purpose and only to Y point.
When the user breaks something you told them is unsupported past a certain point that documentation will help point the user in the right direction and keep both yourself and the company safe from rampant I broke my $device while doing company work on it! Fix it or get me a new one!
First - I want to see in the license where it requires them to pull it off systems.
Second - What the hell are they going to replace it with? Are they saying you have to download and install Java manually? OpenJDK supposedly doesn't work with all things.
Third - What does this mean for Ubuntu derivatives like Mint? Are they going to have to pull the jdk as well?
Forth - Can we _please_ take up a collection to have the Oracle execs framed for terrorism and shipped off to Gitmo?
Honestly this is just stupid.
The first two Doctor Who feature films weren't so bad. Why do you think this one will be?
Because this director specifically says he wants to completely depart from the existing Doctor Who. In the hands of Hollywood that can only mean a disastrous big budget action film that means nothing to existing fans and would be Doctor Who only in name.
It would be a large-scale train wreck similar to the US version of Top Gear.
I'm reserving my collection of Pandoricas for certain CEOs, bank presidents, and members of government. ;-)
DO NOT WANT!
What the hell?? I mean why would anyone...oh yeah...greed. Forgot about that for a moment.
I sincerely hope that this does not get made.
Anybody got any Daleks or Cybermen we can sic on these guys?
You can almost certainly do this on a standard farm but likely it's going to be much much easier to do this with a hydroponics setup with side rails allowing robots to move quickly up and down the rows to place and tend the plants.
The big thing in this type of scenario I think that would still require the "human touch" so to speak would be harvesting. You could probably handle that with video recognition and soft grippers but there's still a chance of damaging the plant while picking the fruit/vegetable.
And harvesting vined plants would be problematic to say the least. Large melons and squash that are ground fruit would be particularly difficult.
I don't see "farmbas" doing harvesting any time soon. Not cheaply at least.
don't blame the artist, they are getting shafted by the same ass-clowns that are issuing out these notices. The RIAA steals so much money from them it's unbelievable. I just wish that the suit against the Canadian RIAA hadn't been settled and had gone the course. Then, at least, the artists would have had some semblance of hope in seeing some money back from the thieves ill-gotten gains.
Part of what needs to happen is the artists need to stand up for themselves and stop being the slaves that the **AA turn them into.
Unfortunately most of them are stuck on the golden hamster wheel and are afraid to get off.
Good job! Too bad we don't have an ending to the song yet. :-/
You're not the first to write something like that btw:
http://nimitzbrood.livejournal.com/184178.html
Mine was a little more hopeful at the end...foolish me...
Infringing on (RIAA's) Copyright & Profitability - Pirate Bay Infringing on (RIAA's) Copyright & Profitability - Weird Al, cover tunes on YouTube, fair use, time shifting (all unlicensed DVRs) Infringing on (Microsoft's) Patents & Profitability - Ubuntu & Android (and All Linux) Infringing on (Apple's) Patents & Profitability - RIM (darned Canadians Eh?) Infringing on (Fox New's) 'Truth' & Profitability - BBC, CBC, Al Jezeera Infringing on (Catholic Church's) 'Truth' & Profitability - Scientific Publications, Tax-Free Status (and, well, reality) Infringing on (Corporate 1%) 'Truth' & Profitability - Government Regulation, Democrats, 'Occupy Everywhere' Infringing on (Government & Corporate) 'Truth' & Profitability - Anonymous, Occupy Everywhere, 'Free Thinkers' Infringing on (Corporate) 'Truth' & Profitability - Google (by providing access to views that challenge 'Everything is fine')
Expect some harsh censorship in this 'Land of Free' (copyright used without permission)
My kingdom for a mod point.
Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! .. Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!