Inter-office romance shouldn't be banned, but you better be damn sure before jumping into a relationship with a co-worker. I don't see how the job description changes that fact. Life isn't fair, and if the relationship ends badly (and it surfaces at work), the woman is more likely to be the subject of gossip and office drama among colleagues.
As a manager I wish office relationships were banned. No matter what the intentions are when starting a relationship, the truth is that many relationships die, and sometimes die a horrible, prolonged death. And when it involves two people that have to work together, the whole team suffers.
Make prospective couples fill out a form for notification of romantic entanglement. Add a clause like "If the relationship terminates and the two of you are no longer able to work together, one of the couple will be asked to cease employment. The decision will be made on the basis of coin toss, or management discretion. You won't know which."
But how about *not* shooting an innocent individual in the first place? Or at least create something that allows the nerves and everything to grow back inside.
I'm sorry, but unshooting is not one of your available options, and at this point neither is something that allows nerves and everything to grow back inside (at least inside the timeframe required to get the bird up the in air again). Complaining about it doesn't change things.
Beer is not usually free, sometimes beer is a trick, sometimes beer is home made, sometimes free beer is horrible, sometimes free beer fell off the back of a truck (free as in stolen), what are you talking about?
I hadn't heard the "free as in beer" term used that much recently but I didn't think it was _that_ long ago... maybe i'm just old:(
Have you every actually watched someone using an ipad??
Look at this picture for a second. Now imagine the person using an ipad, with her head tilted down to where her hands are so she can see the screen. The phrase "ipad neck" exists to describe the condition this produces. I guess a bluetooth keyboard could make the situation better, but I bet chiropractors get wet with excitement when they hear about another school adopting iPads
It will become affordable right around the time 1080p is obsolete and replaced by 10Kp (or whatever is next), requiring 1TbE networking to handle the bandwidth...
No I think this is about who controls the allocation of taxis. Somebody has to pay for their call center. Can't have it replaced but a couple of thousand lines of code.
I wonder how 'self drive' cars will change the taxi industry, once such cars are truly allowed full autonomy on the road... then drivers will be replaced by a couple of million lines of code. Until someone needs a hand with their luggage or needs help out of their wheelchair etc.
If you spend more than 20 hours to engineer something yourself, the $1000 starts to look like a bargain.
Depends on if a "medium sized helicopter company" has 5 helicopters or 50... and also if, after your 20 hours, you end up with something better than "terrible"
How do you know it's a TSA agent dripping a strange liquid into your drink and not a crazy guy dripping a slow acting poison or virus that won't be noticed until hours later after hundreds of people come down with a strange affliction all across the country?
Maybe that's what the TSA is protecting you against... fake agents poisoning your drinks. I suspect it's more likely that they are protecting the vendors against people bringing in their own drinks and thus stealing revenue off them.
Even if you demand to see ID first (is the TSA agent obligated to show ID upon request?), how many people know what a TSA badge is really supposed to look like?
One easy way to find out - refuse the test. If your refusal results in an anal probe, it probably was a real TSA agent.
Scientists have just confirmed an effect, where there should be none, according to all of current science. Whether you like it or not, this is a crack in current science and there may be larger effects elsewhere.
That was my though too. Always exciting when it's a "hmmm... that's strange" moment rather than "yep. This confirms what we thought" moment. Unless it all turns out to be a poorly connected fibre optic cable;)
Disclaimer: For the record, I'm not even remotely a creationist.
Creationism got a bad rap from all the nutjobs harping on about it happening exactly as a bible said. A truly awesome god would set the initial parameters of the universe to shape it the way he wants, without having to touch anything else since... to suggest anything else is blasphemy. I'm an athiest but if it turned out that such a god existed, he would have my respect.
I assume that you are talking about storing the devices in the car, not running them (you say "operating temp" so I'm not entirely sure...)
Put sun shades on the car, and get a solar fan... if it's as hot as you say (i doubt it - hottest temp ever recorded is under 60C, and even that would be a very rare event) then these should be readily available - you open the window a bit and the fan sits in the gap and helps move air through the car, keeping it a bit closer to ambient. The result will be a bit more pleasant when you get back in the car too.
The boot is a better option if you don't like all the mucking about, but I like the idea of keeping the car cool(er).
In Australia where I live, 35C is common and a few days of 40C are expected every few years (47C a few years back!), and i've never had a problem keeping my laptop in the boot when the car is parked in the sun, without sun shades or fans, even though my car is a hatchback (with a glass roof) so the boot isn't really separated from the car (apart from no direct sunshine). In some cases I have even left the laptop sleeping rather than off, although that was probably a bit dumb on my part.
Yeah it's a shitty life. What I was referring to is metaphorically walking in a crowd wearing a stocking over your head so people can't see your face and you can be anonymous. People won't recognise you, but you will sure stand out. That's what using Tor does - makes you stand out.
I'm currently living and working as a software developer here in China, and my livelihood depends on using a VPN. A few things I've learned:
On the whole, VPN providers are unreliable and heavily restrict services.
It's trivial to set up a VPN using VPS providers.
I have about 7 different VPN servers that I manage for myself, my main one I use nowadays is on EC2, however I'm running a low cost low bandwidth VPN on DigitalOcean now and have been very happy. There are a huge number of VPS hosts around, pick one in a country with a good privacy record and work through that.
The process is simple: I just chuck an Ubuntu image on the server, install OpenVPN, and zip through a guide on configuring. The process becomes painfully simple to replicate to new servers if you're happy using a single private key for each of your servers, you can just copy the original server configs to a new server and have multiple servers available to you.
Just out of curiosity... as an Australian with only a vague interest in China I only know about what i hear in the media, which is mostly bad, but isn't running a VPN highly illegal over there?
Nothing illegal. But I was born and then grew up for 22 years in one of the Eastern European block under a communist regime. Unless you experience this on your own skin, I reckon you simply cannot understant how profound the everyday life is altered by knowing that a secret police has a file on every citizen and may be tracking what you do at any moment. In the present, I can't get rid of the distrust in regards with any king of power, political power especially... So, as long as it is not illegal (is it already?) I will tend to "stick it to the Man" even if I'm not doing anything illegal. I do hope to be dead by natural causes if/when anywhere on this world it will be illegal to have a private life without being asked "what do you have to hide".
Go right ahead and use Tor and VPN's and anything else that will protect you. The secret police won't know what you are doing, but the fact that you are using Tor and VPN's to hide what you are doing will indicate that you are up to something and you'll be deleted.
Call me when I can put my keyboard in the dishwasher. When I spilled honey on my last laptop keyboard i took the whole keyboard out, ran it under warm water for a few minutes, sat it in the drainer for 30 minutes to kind of dry, then put it back together. It outlasted the rest of the laptop. Most keyboards can take this sort of abuse.
I'm not, but Slashdot gave me a little checkbox to hide the ads anyway:)
I don't know what all the fuss is about. Advertising is a perfectly legitimate way to fund a site if there is no other way. People will grumble about having to view ads, but most will flatly refuse to pay even a few dollars to fund the site.
It does go too far sometimes though. I've had friends complain that they mentioned the word "diet" on a (seemingly) unrelated forum and then suddenly facebook is bombarding them with weight loss products. Targeted advertising should at least have the decency to be sneaky, not obvious. I use adblock though and have never, ever, seen an ad on Facebook. I started using adblock when all the ads made my dialup connection too slow, and have never bothered turning it off even though i'm on a much faster connection now.
I thought they could do a reversal for those who changed their minds? Either way, I think more and more men are evolving past their insecurities with body issues and it MAY catch on. Hoping so, anyway. Having more and more options on the table involving both sexes in preventing pregnancy, especially if either the man or woman can't DO oral contraceptives (as it was for me, previously stated) is a must, imho.
My wife got terrible morning sickness, but after a few attempts of being on the pill said she'd rather be pregnant. The vasectomy was done shortly after child #4.
The doctor was a bit apprehensive because I was relatively young at the time, and I was told by the doctor in no uncertain terms that the vasectomy was considered permanent, but the alternative was more kids:). Reversals are possible but are very expensive and only really feasible within a short time (6 months?) of the original procedure being done. Given the length of vas being cut out I can't see how they could join it together again anyway.
I get this strange, uncanny feeling that it won't catch on. From my own experience and opinion, men get squicked-out when it comes to changing one of their body functions. Women are "meh, okay," when it comes to oral contraceptives (in SOME cases--me, it didn't work out at all) simply because they have to put up with major, stupid-ridiculous body issues over their entire lives (menstrual cycles, D-cups, pregnancy, menopause--just to name a few) while a man's changes are more subtle, quicker, and easily controllable (facial hair, voice changes, etc.). It'd be nice to, as Samwise says, 'Share the load,' (har har) but it'd take some time and re-thinking of roles.
Hell yes. Having a vasectomy was a bit of a mental hurdle to get over, although the difference there is it's permanent. Having had the vasectomy I'd still consider taking this if the smaller testes thing was a guarantee (and they didn't keep shrinking below the desired size), and they didn't result in any changes to sex drive.
It's even better for coding because one's thumbs don't brush up on trackpad causing the mouse to fly away. I generally refuse to use any laptop that has a trackpad.
You can easily disable the trackpad if it's a problem. I can type faster than most and the trackpad has never been a problem for me... at least on my current laptop. Some laptops i've seen have a trackpad with no tactile borders and is much bigger, which I might find to be a problem, but if I did i'd just disable it.
But given the choice between a correctly sized keyboard and a trackpad i'd choose the keyboard.
Fingerprint readers are what I find a pain. Who in their right mind would but a fingerprint reader right where your wrist brushes against. Madness. Although again, I don't use it so I just disable it, but it's still a pain when using someone elses computer. I guess their testing group doesn't know how to touch type.
I don't think that this application is for you, an experienced driver with a £250 annual insurance premium.
This app is for younger drivers with >£1000 insurance premiums, where £20 of fuel is worth it to save £200. That's if they can stop themselves cruising down the motorway at 100mph at 2am because the road is so empty. Note that these young drivers will be in older, cheaper cars without cruise control too.
The only way around it is for the device to either mark down late night driving, or to require driving samples at specific times of the day, or for the device to take small samples totalling 200 miles from 1000 miles of driving - which would go some way to avoid the monitoring issue too.
Nailed it. I've been driving for nearly 20 years, and my record speaks for itself - no at-fault accidents (i've been collided with twice whilst stationary), no claims, no traffic infringements. I even get a token discount on my license renewal for the lack of traffic infringements. The black box is for people without the history to prove their record. Insurance companies that chase the wrong numbers lose, so I'm sure the research has been done here.
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In my first scan of the headline I thought it said "Microsoft Urging Safari Users To Use Bling"... which makes just about as much sense.
can you run linux on it?
Nope. Linux requires at least a two bit computer to run.
Inter-office romance shouldn't be banned, but you better be damn sure before jumping into a relationship with a co-worker. I don't see how the job description changes that fact. Life isn't fair, and if the relationship ends badly (and it surfaces at work), the woman is more likely to be the subject of gossip and office drama among colleagues.
As a manager I wish office relationships were banned. No matter what the intentions are when starting a relationship, the truth is that many relationships die, and sometimes die a horrible, prolonged death. And when it involves two people that have to work together, the whole team suffers.
Make prospective couples fill out a form for notification of romantic entanglement. Add a clause like "If the relationship terminates and the two of you are no longer able to work together, one of the couple will be asked to cease employment. The decision will be made on the basis of coin toss, or management discretion. You won't know which."
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a reference to Godwin's Law approaches 1
Didn't Hitler say that?
This eagle can't be un-shot until the time machine has been 3D printed.
And that's never going to happen. Proof: If a time machine were ever invented someone from the future would have come back in time by now.
But how about *not* shooting an innocent individual in the first place?
Or at least create something that allows the nerves and everything to grow back inside.
I'm sorry, but unshooting is not one of your available options, and at this point neither is something that allows nerves and everything to grow back inside (at least inside the timeframe required to get the bird up the in air again). Complaining about it doesn't change things.
The options are plastic beak or death.
Beer is not usually free, sometimes beer is a trick, sometimes beer is home made, sometimes free beer is horrible, sometimes free beer fell off the back of a truck (free as in stolen), what are you talking about?
I hadn't heard the "free as in beer" term used that much recently but I didn't think it was _that_ long ago... maybe i'm just old :(
Have you every actually watched someone using an ipad??
Look at this picture for a second. Now imagine the person using an ipad, with her head tilted down to where her hands are so she can see the screen. The phrase "ipad neck" exists to describe the condition this produces. I guess a bluetooth keyboard could make the situation better, but I bet chiropractors get wet with excitement when they hear about another school adopting iPads
If this is the case, why not just carve out the human readable URL of the poor dude's FB/Twitter/G+ page.
Because a human readable link to goatse would be a dead giveaway, but with a QR code you might not know until it's too late!
It will become affordable right around the time 1080p is obsolete and replaced by 10Kp (or whatever is next), requiring 1TbE networking to handle the bandwidth...
No I think this is about who controls the allocation of taxis. Somebody has to pay for their call center. Can't have it replaced but a couple of thousand lines of code.
I wonder how 'self drive' cars will change the taxi industry, once such cars are truly allowed full autonomy on the road... then drivers will be replaced by a couple of million lines of code. Until someone needs a hand with their luggage or needs help out of their wheelchair etc.
If you spend more than 20 hours to engineer something yourself, the $1000 starts to look like a bargain.
Depends on if a "medium sized helicopter company" has 5 helicopters or 50... and also if, after your 20 hours, you end up with something better than "terrible"
How do you know it's a TSA agent dripping a strange liquid into your drink and not a crazy guy dripping a slow acting poison or virus that won't be noticed until hours later after hundreds of people come down with a strange affliction all across the country?
Maybe that's what the TSA is protecting you against... fake agents poisoning your drinks. I suspect it's more likely that they are protecting the vendors against people bringing in their own drinks and thus stealing revenue off them.
Even if you demand to see ID first (is the TSA agent obligated to show ID upon request?), how many people know what a TSA badge is really supposed to look like?
One easy way to find out - refuse the test. If your refusal results in an anal probe, it probably was a real TSA agent.
Scientists have just confirmed an effect, where there should be none, according to all of current science. Whether you like it or not, this is a crack in current science and there may be larger effects elsewhere.
That was my though too. Always exciting when it's a "hmmm... that's strange" moment rather than "yep. This confirms what we thought" moment. Unless it all turns out to be a poorly connected fibre optic cable ;)
Disclaimer: For the record, I'm not even remotely a creationist.
Creationism got a bad rap from all the nutjobs harping on about it happening exactly as a bible said. A truly awesome god would set the initial parameters of the universe to shape it the way he wants, without having to touch anything else since... to suggest anything else is blasphemy. I'm an athiest but if it turned out that such a god existed, he would have my respect.
I assume that you are talking about storing the devices in the car, not running them (you say "operating temp" so I'm not entirely sure...)
Put sun shades on the car, and get a solar fan... if it's as hot as you say (i doubt it - hottest temp ever recorded is under 60C, and even that would be a very rare event) then these should be readily available - you open the window a bit and the fan sits in the gap and helps move air through the car, keeping it a bit closer to ambient. The result will be a bit more pleasant when you get back in the car too.
The boot is a better option if you don't like all the mucking about, but I like the idea of keeping the car cool(er).
In Australia where I live, 35C is common and a few days of 40C are expected every few years (47C a few years back!), and i've never had a problem keeping my laptop in the boot when the car is parked in the sun, without sun shades or fans, even though my car is a hatchback (with a glass roof) so the boot isn't really separated from the car (apart from no direct sunshine). In some cases I have even left the laptop sleeping rather than off, although that was probably a bit dumb on my part.
Yeah it's a shitty life. What I was referring to is metaphorically walking in a crowd wearing a stocking over your head so people can't see your face and you can be anonymous. People won't recognise you, but you will sure stand out. That's what using Tor does - makes you stand out.
I'm currently living and working as a software developer here in China, and my livelihood depends on using a VPN. A few things I've learned:
I have about 7 different VPN servers that I manage for myself, my main one I use nowadays is on EC2, however I'm running a low cost low bandwidth VPN on DigitalOcean now and have been very happy. There are a huge number of VPS hosts around, pick one in a country with a good privacy record and work through that.
The process is simple: I just chuck an Ubuntu image on the server, install OpenVPN, and zip through a guide on configuring. The process becomes painfully simple to replicate to new servers if you're happy using a single private key for each of your servers, you can just copy the original server configs to a new server and have multiple servers available to you.
Just out of curiosity... as an Australian with only a vague interest in China I only know about what i hear in the media, which is mostly bad, but isn't running a VPN highly illegal over there?
Nothing illegal. But I was born and then grew up for 22 years in one of the Eastern European block under a communist regime. Unless you experience this on your own skin, I reckon you simply cannot understant how profound the everyday life is altered by knowing that a secret police has a file on every citizen and may be tracking what you do at any moment.
In the present, I can't get rid of the distrust in regards with any king of power, political power especially... So, as long as it is not illegal (is it already?) I will tend to "stick it to the Man" even if I'm not doing anything illegal. I do hope to be dead by natural causes if/when anywhere on this world it will be illegal to have a private life without being asked "what do you have to hide".
Go right ahead and use Tor and VPN's and anything else that will protect you. The secret police won't know what you are doing, but the fact that you are using Tor and VPN's to hide what you are doing will indicate that you are up to something and you'll be deleted.
Call me when I can put my keyboard in the dishwasher. When I spilled honey on my last laptop keyboard i took the whole keyboard out, ran it under warm water for a few minutes, sat it in the drainer for 30 minutes to kind of dry, then put it back together. It outlasted the rest of the laptop. Most keyboards can take this sort of abuse.
So you're subscribing to /. then?
I'm not, but Slashdot gave me a little checkbox to hide the ads anyway :)
I don't know what all the fuss is about. Advertising is a perfectly legitimate way to fund a site if there is no other way. People will grumble about having to view ads, but most will flatly refuse to pay even a few dollars to fund the site.
It does go too far sometimes though. I've had friends complain that they mentioned the word "diet" on a (seemingly) unrelated forum and then suddenly facebook is bombarding them with weight loss products. Targeted advertising should at least have the decency to be sneaky, not obvious. I use adblock though and have never, ever, seen an ad on Facebook. I started using adblock when all the ads made my dialup connection too slow, and have never bothered turning it off even though i'm on a much faster connection now.
I thought they could do a reversal for those who changed their minds? Either way, I think more and more men are evolving past their insecurities with body issues and it MAY catch on. Hoping so, anyway. Having more and more options on the table involving both sexes in preventing pregnancy, especially if either the man or woman can't DO oral contraceptives (as it was for me, previously stated) is a must, imho.
My wife got terrible morning sickness, but after a few attempts of being on the pill said she'd rather be pregnant. The vasectomy was done shortly after child #4.
The doctor was a bit apprehensive because I was relatively young at the time, and I was told by the doctor in no uncertain terms that the vasectomy was considered permanent, but the alternative was more kids :). Reversals are possible but are very expensive and only really feasible within a short time (6 months?) of the original procedure being done. Given the length of vas being cut out I can't see how they could join it together again anyway.
I get this strange, uncanny feeling that it won't catch on. From my own experience and opinion, men get squicked-out when it comes to changing one of their body functions. Women are "meh, okay," when it comes to oral contraceptives (in SOME cases--me, it didn't work out at all) simply because they have to put up with major, stupid-ridiculous body issues over their entire lives (menstrual cycles, D-cups, pregnancy, menopause--just to name a few) while a man's changes are more subtle, quicker, and easily controllable (facial hair, voice changes, etc.). It'd be nice to, as Samwise says, 'Share the load,' (har har) but it'd take some time and re-thinking of roles.
Hell yes. Having a vasectomy was a bit of a mental hurdle to get over, although the difference there is it's permanent. Having had the vasectomy I'd still consider taking this if the smaller testes thing was a guarantee (and they didn't keep shrinking below the desired size), and they didn't result in any changes to sex drive.
It's even better for coding because one's thumbs don't brush up on trackpad causing the mouse to fly away. I generally refuse to use any laptop that has a trackpad.
You can easily disable the trackpad if it's a problem. I can type faster than most and the trackpad has never been a problem for me... at least on my current laptop. Some laptops i've seen have a trackpad with no tactile borders and is much bigger, which I might find to be a problem, but if I did i'd just disable it.
But given the choice between a correctly sized keyboard and a trackpad i'd choose the keyboard.
Fingerprint readers are what I find a pain. Who in their right mind would but a fingerprint reader right where your wrist brushes against. Madness. Although again, I don't use it so I just disable it, but it's still a pain when using someone elses computer. I guess their testing group doesn't know how to touch type.
Until they cross reference your stated mileage against your MOT certificate and you get prosecuted for insurance fraud.
It's fraud (and these days, money laundering) and you get spanked for it. Don't lie to insurance companies*.
*Disclaimer: I work for an insurance company.
Even worse, they will only check when you actually want to claim - they'll quite happily take your money in the meantime.
I don't think that this application is for you, an experienced driver with a £250 annual insurance premium.
This app is for younger drivers with >£1000 insurance premiums, where £20 of fuel is worth it to save £200. That's if they can stop themselves cruising down the motorway at 100mph at 2am because the road is so empty. Note that these young drivers will be in older, cheaper cars without cruise control too.
The only way around it is for the device to either mark down late night driving, or to require driving samples at specific times of the day, or for the device to take small samples totalling 200 miles from 1000 miles of driving - which would go some way to avoid the monitoring issue too.
Nailed it. I've been driving for nearly 20 years, and my record speaks for itself - no at-fault accidents (i've been collided with twice whilst stationary), no claims, no traffic infringements. I even get a token discount on my license renewal for the lack of traffic infringements. The black box is for people without the history to prove their record. Insurance companies that chase the wrong numbers lose, so I'm sure the research has been done here.