Or if you feel like spelling, try to go to the Welsh Village that has the longest British village name (not the longest in the world though). LLanfair.....gogogoch or something or other.
The GF lives in Nevada and they have had electronic voting for a little while, which scared the crap out of me until I heard it WAS NOT diebold! It is Sequoia which a quick google search doesn't seem to bring up anything really bad (unlike searching for diebold).
They electronically record the vote and then print out what your vote was and you stick that in a ballot box, so there IS a paper trail. Even if the votes screw up you can double check. And it asks you to confirm voting before you hit 'vote' and you can change it. Sounds pretty good, although it isn't open source so isn't perfect but sounds so much better then diebold!
Caveat: I didn't vote (in NV anyway) so didn't see the machines and just did a quick google search. If anyone has more information let us know:)
Article Modding sounds interesting, but should also include post scores as well. A story with 10 +5 insightful / interesting / funny mods is a better read then 200 goatse links!
Of course that would slow down it turning up on the main page as people would have to first post and then be moderated.
Although I still generally just read the RSS and go from that as to which stories I want to read but it's nice to see people are still trying to improve/.
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So, the beer contains 5.5% Alcohol, ingredients water bla bla bla. Cigarettes contain.. oh wait it's a US pack it doesn't tell me (but would in the UK). X mg tar, nicotine etc etc. Windows contains... what 35% virus installation routines, 20% kill competitors code, 40% report back to microsoft what you're doing, 1% usefull stuff and 99% profit for microsoft (and yes that is more then 100% because we all know windows is bloated!)
OK this is just what happened to me, although a few others say this has happened to them.
When I was at uni I had a limit of about 150 quid (oh 250 bucks or something), and when I left and started earning money, they tripled it. Then I bought my own house and bought a few things for it, maxing out the card (which I paid off at the end of the month). Again they tripled it. Then I bought carpets and maxed the card out again and again they tripled it. Since they it hasn't moved (but is now around 8000 bucks which is more then I need). And I still have a DD paying it off at the end of every month in full. Even before I had that I always tried to pay it off in full (and I know a few months I haven't but it's been in single digits and I've had credit cards for over 10 years now)
Although I understand that in the US it is based on your social security number, but in the UK it's more on the address you live in (I'm sure I read about people with good credit ratings buying a house from a bad credit person and inheriting their crappy ratings, although nothing recently so this may have changed).
Then again talking to the GF (who is American) she said that 8 grand is nothing for a credit card over there, but in the UK it seems pretty high compared to my friends. But they could just have bad ratings:P
Based on where I used to work where they were outsourcing all the jobs to India, I had to train a bunch of them and have to say you should stay away from ones fresh from uni. They seemed had no idea how to actually THINK through a problem, simply followed instructions (one actually asked me to teach him 'initiative').
Once they have been out into the world they are much better. Apologies if this sounds racist but this is what I have found, based on working with a small number. Yes it is a huge assumption that the few I have worked with are an average section, but based on conversations with a few of them they believe that this is about right.
One of them even said he wished that England still ruled India because, as a Christian, he was discriminated against!
Feel free to disagree with me, as I have said this was a very small number (was maybe a dozen) so we could have just had the idiots working for us:P
Our building was rented from someone else and THEY controlled the thermostat and we weren't allowed to change it, so when it got really hot in march two years back they had expected colder weather and had the heater on. I'm guessing that they couldn't be bothered to pay someone to come down to change the thermostat (and yes probably in a locked room no-one else had access to)
We had a bunch of new machines some years back with CD-roms, but the hardware guys simply unplugged the sound cable from the CD on every single one so this wouldn't work, and when we had machines with sound cards on the motherboard simply didn't install the sound drivers.
Oh course us being the software guys we plugged the cables back in and downloaded the drivers:)
Where I used to work people were told they were not allowed to bring their own fans in (was in a heat wave and for some stupid reason the heaters were still on as it was March).
Anyway the reason we were told was because of the fire risk to untested electrical equipment. But we did bitch enough to get management to buy us a bunch of fans, one per 3/4 employess (sat in banks of 3/4 and not in cubicles so this kinda worked). We still brought our own ones in though;)
Used those ONCE, and we were buying only a few items. We had to get someone over for EVERY SINGLE ITEM because of some stupid reason. The GF scanned the item, put it in a bag and I grabbed a bag, but it was just after she scanned the next item so it thought we were stealing! Then the alcohol so had to do an ID check, then something else complained (possibly because we didn't want to put lots of items in one bag and have it split on us, and it didn't like it) and in the end it took us so much longer, and the poor checkout girl kept having to run back over to help us.
I'm not going to bother using them any more but fortunately there are none near me (the one we used was when we were visiting friends in another state!)
... and may I take this opportunity of emphasizing that there are no spankings in the Air Force. Absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount, more than we are prepared to admit, but all new recruits are warned that if they wake up in the morning and find marks at all anywhere on their bodies, they're to tell me immediately so that I can immediately take every measure to hush the whole thing up.
At my parents house is my old win 98 box from many years ago and it is PERFECTLY safe. It's in about 4 pieces now and being used for spare parts!
But you are right, no matter HOW secure the box is, if someone convinces the user to do DEL *.*/Q/S/F (or whatever it is) then you still have no data left (ok, or rm -rF or whatever it is on linux)
Where I used to work, when I was on the Tech Support side of things, I received an ticket for an error on a system I had written a few years earlier. Now this was a fairly simple VB front end with an Access database behind it so I had total rights to do anything to it, but for some completely unfathomable reason the hell^Hpdesk guy had written the users password into the ticket!
So here we have two stupid people. One users who had given his password out, and a stupid helldesk guy who had asked the user for it and written it down! I mean there is just no reason for requiring the password as all the tech guys (in house anyway) should always have enough access to do whatever without requiring a password.
Mind you this is the place that had a server that was faithfully backed up every night and then it turned out that the tapes errored every time, but the script they used to backup (it was a VERY old OS/2 server) checked that the backups worked but there was a bug in the check, so they never worked. When the server shat itself we were out lots of work.
And the same place that has backup tapes used in 3 month rotations, so if you need to backup anything over 3 months old you're screwed. And yes that did happen once when I booked some code out of the repository and found it was corrupted and it had been in there for 6 months. So no backups there!
And the same place that had all users able to run.reg files (mind you I liked that - I had one run when I logged on to change the screensaver and stuff that someone thought we needed to have locked down)
And the same place that had the SMS install password in a file called DROWSSAP.DLL on a network drive which gave FULL access to said drive, which even us techs didn't have access to.
Oh and that password was the same as the username also.
And the password for the internet was locked so you couldn't change 'your' password (which is immediately insecure as more then one person knows the password) and they were all 6-7 letter words, found in a dictionary. And from what I heard they only had about 20 words they used as some people compared words and found they had the same one!
I could go on further, but I'm so glad I stopped working there:)
16 for a moped with L plates I believe (well was back when I was a teenager)
Also what is this stuff about 2 years of lessons? A mate had no formal lessons and passed the DAY of his 17th birthday and could drive a car - granted he had driven before. And yes legally as on private property you can drive whatever, however old you are (my father for example learnt to drive a tractor at his parents farm at around 11!) On average it's normally 6 months after you turn 17 you take your test (assuming no exams in the way and stuff) and only 20-30 1 hr lessons - again some people did it in a lot less and a mate from uni took over a hundred lessons and still couldn't get the hang of gears (he has since passed on an auto but in the UK that means you can't drive manuals ever, unless you retake the test).
I did hear many years back that in Germany if you fail twice you have to see a psychiatrist, although that was about 10 years ago. The papers claimed all the Germans were coming over to the UK to take their test as it was easier and you still got a European Licence and could convert over to the German one when you got back home.
And I just googled the DVLA website and here are the ages. If you don't want to look:
In general, the minimum ages for driving on British roads are 16 years for invalid carriages and mopeds, 17 years for agricultural or forestry tractors, small vehicles and motorcycles, and 21 years for medium/large sized vehicles, minibuses and buses.
I was only trying to be funny. I have an American girlfriend and spend a lot of time in the US and am tryinng to move there permanently. I have nothing against Americans and while some really are dumb (one asked if we celebrated 4th of July in the UK) there is stupidity everywhere. But now out of interest I will ask the GF about 'dearer' and see if she knows what it is:)
OK, for those who can't or won't work this out - assume you have 100 bucks in your account, and the interest rate is 100% (yeah I wish, but it makes the maths easier!)
If you leave your money in all year, you have 200 bucks (100 * 100%)
If you take your money out after 1/2 a year, you would get 150 bucks (100 bucks * 50%). Put it back in and then take it out at the end of the year and you get 225 bucks (150 * 50%).
If you do it every 1/4 year you would get 100 * 25% = 125 in the first quarter, then 125 * 25% = 156.25 in the second quarter, 156.25 * 25% = 195.3125 for the third and then 195.3125 * 25% = 244.10625 for the full year. (OK they would round down but I didn't here). You have made 44 bucks by just visiting your bank a few times!
The more you go in and take your money out and put it back in, the more you gain over the entire year if they calculated interest on what you had in exactly up to that date.
Where I used to work we had Norton. Originally we had IBM antivirus (IBM mainframe, I understand they cut a deal for IBM antivirus at 1 UKP per license). Norton bought out IBM antivirus so we all gained norton.
Mind you it was the version you could shut down by changing one line in the registry and because of the stupid setup EVERYONE had access to run.REG files even if they weren't administrators. Then again they're still running NT and running a project to upgrade to XP, and still have a bunch of old MS-DOS programs that are critical apps running under NT and that just sucks because of stealing all the processer speed. Kinda funny watching the screensaver kick in when running one of these apps as the fluttering flag (with the company logo on it) gets like 3 seconds per frame (not a typo!)
In the UK there was this Policeman (quite high up) who was driving to talk about zero-tolerance. On his way there some of his officers clocked him at 2 mph over the limit (which is kinda legal - technically illegal but due to slight inacuracies in the speedo and the speed check machine they give you 10%. Most speed cameras are 10% + 2 I seem to recall).
He stood up and gave his speech and the two police that clocked him pointed out that HE should therefore be arrested under zero-tolerance. Don't remember it being mentioned much afterwards;)
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No, considering I didn't have an Atari as a child (had to google to find out about it) but found this ad for it!
Or if you feel like spelling, try to go to the Welsh Village that has the longest British village name (not the longest in the world though). LLanfair.....gogogoch or something or other.
Or just click here
The GF lives in Nevada and they have had electronic voting for a little while, which scared the crap out of me until I heard it WAS NOT diebold! It is Sequoia which a quick google search doesn't seem to bring up anything really bad (unlike searching for diebold).
:)
They electronically record the vote and then print out what your vote was and you stick that in a ballot box, so there IS a paper trail. Even if the votes screw up you can double check. And it asks you to confirm voting before you hit 'vote' and you can change it. Sounds pretty good, although it isn't open source so isn't perfect but sounds so much better then diebold!
Caveat: I didn't vote (in NV anyway) so didn't see the machines and just did a quick google search. If anyone has more information let us know
Article Modding sounds interesting, but should also include post scores as well. A story with 10 +5 insightful / interesting / funny mods is a better read then 200 goatse links!
/.
Of course that would slow down it turning up on the main page as people would have to first post and then be moderated.
Although I still generally just read the RSS and go from that as to which stories I want to read but it's nice to see people are still trying to improve
So, the beer contains 5.5% Alcohol, ingredients water bla bla bla.
Cigarettes contain.. oh wait it's a US pack it doesn't tell me (but would in the UK). X mg tar, nicotine etc etc.
Windows contains... what 35% virus installation routines, 20% kill competitors code, 40% report back to microsoft what you're doing, 1% usefull stuff and 99% profit for microsoft (and yes that is more then 100% because we all know windows is bloated!)
OK this is just what happened to me, although a few others say this has happened to them.
:P
When I was at uni I had a limit of about 150 quid (oh 250 bucks or something), and when I left and started earning money, they tripled it. Then I bought my own house and bought a few things for it, maxing out the card (which I paid off at the end of the month). Again they tripled it. Then I bought carpets and maxed the card out again and again they tripled it. Since they it hasn't moved (but is now around 8000 bucks which is more then I need). And I still have a DD paying it off at the end of every month in full. Even before I had that I always tried to pay it off in full (and I know a few months I haven't but it's been in single digits and I've had credit cards for over 10 years now)
Although I understand that in the US it is based on your social security number, but in the UK it's more on the address you live in (I'm sure I read about people with good credit ratings buying a house from a bad credit person and inheriting their crappy ratings, although nothing recently so this may have changed).
Then again talking to the GF (who is American) she said that 8 grand is nothing for a credit card over there, but in the UK it seems pretty high compared to my friends. But they could just have bad ratings
Based on where I used to work where they were outsourcing all the jobs to India, I had to train a bunch of them and have to say you should stay away from ones fresh from uni. They seemed had no idea how to actually THINK through a problem, simply followed instructions (one actually asked me to teach him 'initiative').
:P
:P
Once they have been out into the world they are much better. Apologies if this sounds racist but this is what I have found, based on working with a small number. Yes it is a huge assumption that the few I have worked with are an average section, but based on conversations with a few of them they believe that this is about right.
One of them even said he wished that England still ruled India because, as a Christian, he was discriminated against!
Feel free to disagree with me, as I have said this was a very small number (was maybe a dozen) so we could have just had the idiots working for us
Watch my Karma burn now
Christ! My department is like the freakin UN.
;)
So you spend all your time bitching about agriculture and don't actual do anything worthwhile?
Our building was rented from someone else and THEY controlled the thermostat and we weren't allowed to change it, so when it got really hot in march two years back they had expected colder weather and had the heater on. I'm guessing that they couldn't be bothered to pay someone to come down to change the thermostat (and yes probably in a locked room no-one else had access to)
We had a bunch of new machines some years back with CD-roms, but the hardware guys simply unplugged the sound cable from the CD on every single one so this wouldn't work, and when we had machines with sound cards on the motherboard simply didn't install the sound drivers.
:)
Oh course us being the software guys we plugged the cables back in and downloaded the drivers
Where I used to work people were told they were not allowed to bring their own fans in (was in a heat wave and for some stupid reason the heaters were still on as it was March).
;)
Anyway the reason we were told was because of the fire risk to untested electrical equipment. But we did bitch enough to get management to buy us a bunch of fans, one per 3/4 employess (sat in banks of 3/4 and not in cubicles so this kinda worked). We still brought our own ones in though
ding (1) ding (2) ding (3) ding (4) ding ding ding hello? no ding I'm ding in a ding elevator ding.
... wait 10? 11?
Crap was that some guys cell phone ringing, dinging or
Hello? Excuse me what floor am I on? Hello
I think if I was blind I'd rather have floor numbers then having to count dings or hoping someone was still with me when I got to my floor.
Used those ONCE, and we were buying only a few items. We had to get someone over for EVERY SINGLE ITEM because of some stupid reason. The GF scanned the item, put it in a bag and I grabbed a bag, but it was just after she scanned the next item so it thought we were stealing! Then the alcohol so had to do an ID check, then something else complained (possibly because we didn't want to put lots of items in one bag and have it split on us, and it didn't like it) and in the end it took us so much longer, and the poor checkout girl kept having to run back over to help us.
I'm not going to bother using them any more but fortunately there are none near me (the one we used was when we were visiting friends in another state!)
... and may I take this opportunity of emphasizing that there are no spankings in the Air Force. Absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount, more than we are prepared to admit, but all new recruits are warned that if they wake up in the morning and find marks at all anywhere on their bodies, they're to tell me immediately so that I can immediately take every measure to hush the whole thing up.
(yes I'm misquoting Monty Python!)
At my parents house is my old win 98 box from many years ago and it is PERFECTLY safe. It's in about 4 pieces now and being used for spare parts!
/Q /S /F (or whatever it is) then you still have no data left (ok, or rm -rF or whatever it is on linux)
But you are right, no matter HOW secure the box is, if someone convinces the user to do DEL *.*
Someone once said that 'Drinking decaf is like masturbating and faking orgasm'
Where I used to work, when I was on the Tech Support side of things, I received an ticket for an error on a system I had written a few years earlier. Now this was a fairly simple VB front end with an Access database behind it so I had total rights to do anything to it, but for some completely unfathomable reason the hell^Hpdesk guy had written the users password into the ticket!
.reg files (mind you I liked that - I had one run when I logged on to change the screensaver and stuff that someone thought we needed to have locked down)
:)
So here we have two stupid people. One users who had given his password out, and a stupid helldesk guy who had asked the user for it and written it down! I mean there is just no reason for requiring the password as all the tech guys (in house anyway) should always have enough access to do whatever without requiring a password.
Mind you this is the place that had a server that was faithfully backed up every night and then it turned out that the tapes errored every time, but the script they used to backup (it was a VERY old OS/2 server) checked that the backups worked but there was a bug in the check, so they never worked. When the server shat itself we were out lots of work.
And the same place that has backup tapes used in 3 month rotations, so if you need to backup anything over 3 months old you're screwed. And yes that did happen once when I booked some code out of the repository and found it was corrupted and it had been in there for 6 months. So no backups there!
And the same place that had all users able to run
And the same place that had the SMS install password in a file called DROWSSAP.DLL on a network drive which gave FULL access to said drive, which even us techs didn't have access to.
Oh and that password was the same as the username also.
And the password for the internet was locked so you couldn't change 'your' password (which is immediately insecure as more then one person knows the password) and they were all 6-7 letter words, found in a dictionary. And from what I heard they only had about 20 words they used as some people compared words and found they had the same one!
I could go on further, but I'm so glad I stopped working there
16 for a moped with L plates I believe (well was back when I was a teenager)
Also what is this stuff about 2 years of lessons? A mate had no formal lessons and passed the DAY of his 17th birthday and could drive a car - granted he had driven before. And yes legally as on private property you can drive whatever, however old you are (my father for example learnt to drive a tractor at his parents farm at around 11!) On average it's normally 6 months after you turn 17 you take your test (assuming no exams in the way and stuff) and only 20-30 1 hr lessons - again some people did it in a lot less and a mate from uni took over a hundred lessons and still couldn't get the hang of gears (he has since passed on an auto but in the UK that means you can't drive manuals ever, unless you retake the test).
I did hear many years back that in Germany if you fail twice you have to see a psychiatrist, although that was about 10 years ago. The papers claimed all the Germans were coming over to the UK to take their test as it was easier and you still got a European Licence and could convert over to the German one when you got back home.
And I just googled the DVLA website and here are the ages. If you don't want to look:
In general, the minimum ages for driving on British roads are 16 years for invalid carriages and mopeds, 17 years for agricultural or forestry tractors, small vehicles and motorcycles, and 21 years for medium/large sized vehicles, minibuses and buses.
I was only trying to be funny. I have an American girlfriend and spend a lot of time in the US and am tryinng to move there permanently. I have nothing against Americans and while some really are dumb (one asked if we celebrated 4th of July in the UK) there is stupidity everywhere. But now out of interest I will ask the GF about 'dearer' and see if she knows what it is :)
Admitting the problem is the first step to fixing it ;)
You're welcome lol
OK, for those who can't or won't work this out - assume you have 100 bucks in your account, and the interest rate is 100% (yeah I wish, but it makes the maths easier!)
If you leave your money in all year, you have 200 bucks (100 * 100%)
If you take your money out after 1/2 a year, you would get 150 bucks (100 bucks * 50%). Put it back in and then take it out at the end of the year and you get 225 bucks (150 * 50%).
If you do it every 1/4 year you would get 100 * 25% = 125 in the first quarter, then 125 * 25% = 156.25 in the second quarter, 156.25 * 25% = 195.3125 for the third and then 195.3125 * 25% = 244.10625 for the full year. (OK they would round down but I didn't here). You have made 44 bucks by just visiting your bank a few times!
The more you go in and take your money out and put it back in, the more you gain over the entire year if they calculated interest on what you had in exactly up to that date.
Where I used to work we had Norton. Originally we had IBM antivirus (IBM mainframe, I understand they cut a deal for IBM antivirus at 1 UKP per license). Norton bought out IBM antivirus so we all gained norton.
.REG files even if they weren't administrators. Then again they're still running NT and running a project to upgrade to XP, and still have a bunch of old MS-DOS programs that are critical apps running under NT and that just sucks because of stealing all the processer speed. Kinda funny watching the screensaver kick in when running one of these apps as the fluttering flag (with the company logo on it) gets like 3 seconds per frame (not a typo!)
Mind you it was the version you could shut down by changing one line in the registry and because of the stupid setup EVERYONE had access to run
In the UK there was this Policeman (quite high up) who was driving to talk about zero-tolerance. On his way there some of his officers clocked him at 2 mph over the limit (which is kinda legal - technically illegal but due to slight inacuracies in the speedo and the speed check machine they give you 10%. Most speed cameras are 10% + 2 I seem to recall).
;)
He stood up and gave his speech and the two police that clocked him pointed out that HE should therefore be arrested under zero-tolerance. Don't remember it being mentioned much afterwards
The goggles, they do nothing!