People surf porn at work that is just going to happen, if there work does not suffer and they are adults it is far more worthwhile to spend time worrying about security which can get you in real trouble.
Even if you're careful you can get caught out by a "goatse" type link on slashdot, or once even on a supplier's technical support forum.
As I tell my customers when they ask, "You can't fix behavioral issues with technology." If employees want to waste time instead of working, they can surf the web or send chain emails. Take that away, they can play solitaire. Take that away, they can gab around the water cooler or stare into space and day-dream. Blocking porn and gambling sites is probably a good idea for liability purposes, but I can't see that it helps productivity.
Most frequently I'm asked to look at log files or email and tell employers things that I simply cannot know. I can tell them that an employee didn't log in to their PC until 10am, but I have no way of knowing when they actually arrived at work.
I don't know, if the banned slashdot I would probably be working on a programming problem. On the other hand if they hadn't banned orgasm.com i'd......
Monitoring other employees computer usage - one of the many non value adding tasks that have found their way into large corporations. It ranks up their with human resource departments!
Not quite. It doesn't have such a negative impact on other people's productivity
Never again will we be stumped by atheists when they ask where did all the water go after the flood. We can now tell them that it went to the moon, and scientists have proved it.
There must be a way to get the location services you want, like finding the local Krispy-Kreme, without broadcasting your location to the service in question. Like a blocked phone number.
Yes,
Always use a disposable phone. Brought for cash. Use it only once. That's what Uncle Osama tells me.
Yeah, I got one of those email surveys. I only had to pay $10 to find out whether I had been scammed in the last 12 months. Unfortunately, they replied back that I had, though they didn't give any details about when. I'm still trying to figure it out.
But if they told you that you had and they were scamming you then it was not a scam...... but that would mean that they told you the wrong answer, in which case it was a scam.... so the answer was right..... my brain hurts (stack overflow).
Why?
Because I have a card reader that provides an encrypted string after I provide it with my chipped card, PIN and a string from the website. I need to do this for every new transaction.
I still believe that only the greedy get scammed.
Unfortunately you might need to re-sync it to gain the full security benefits.
Seriously there is one thing that is terribly wrong with these card readers. They are a gift to muggers. They can be used to verify the pin for a credit or debit card - even ones from other issuers. They don't even have to risk marching you to a cashpoint and forcing you to withdraw money, they can do it all from the comfort of their own crack-house. I complained to the bank and they pointed out that a card would be locked out after three wrong attempts. After two broken fingers I think most people would think twice before using this feature.
Uneducated people. These are also the people who buy shit from infomercials that will "cleanse their colon" and attend hotel ball room "lectures" on how to make hundreds of thousands of dollars trading stocks - all you have to do is pay $1200 for their "special" trading program. Of course, there are some really street smart uneducated people who get one over on MBAs - so I'm speaking about my experiences, only.
I think the "street smart" is more important than educated. I worked with a really intelligent guy, a brilliant systems programmer who signed up for timeshare he couldn't afford in a place he didn't want to go to because the agent convinced him that he could make a fortune in subletting the share.
They probably did an email survey with subject "Have you been scammed?". 28% that answer useless unsolicited mail probably have been scammed.
They were probably disappointed that the second line didn't read "The Nigerian government have a compensation scheme. Our records show that you are entitled to $20,000 thousand US dollars. Email me at ministeroffinance152342@hotmail.com for details of how to make a claim."
If the OP can generate the impression that he could leave easily and still be OK then that puts him in a much stronger position whilst talking about a pay rise.
One thing that I would advise him to do is keep discussions strictly between him and his boss, HR, etc. If he publicly says "I've got another job offer for more money, lets see if the company can match it" then the company will not just be looking at the cost of increasing his salary against replacing him. They will be looking at the potential cost of upping the salary of everyone he told as well as his against replacing him.
Yes, but that entire way of life is predicated on cheap energy, that is, oil. As energy gets more expensive, we won't be able to support a parasite class any longer.
It'll sort itself out.
Do you really think that the parasite class will be first to suffer? Eventually they'll go but history shows that they will maintain their lifestyle as the expense of others until the others rebel or die
1) Work harder than almost any other branch of schooling
2) Work for free on the evenings and weekends
3) Do things that no one cares about or appreciates
4) Life-long learning never stops, what about life?
5) Employment opportunities fall drastically after 35, you're too old
6) Watch engineering melt down and get exported to cheaper countries
7) Fuck it, go to law school
8) Profit by bringing dubiously generic and obvious patent cases against those daft enough still to be producing something for a living and who won't be able to afford to defend themselves in court.
I skimmed over the paper and I'm not sure it's privacy that reduced the effectiveness. I think it's more out of annoyance.
Lets say there are two types of people that click on ads: People that are actually interested in get more information provided by the ad and people that just click on the ad on an impulse.
Yes I've had that annoying advert, that looks as though its got exactly what you want "Advanced Vina lessons in Leeds". When you click on it it is the Leeds section of some classified site, with two adverts; one for a used Sofa and another for gardening services!
My wife took a polygraph test to work for the police department (secretarial not an officer!). One of the questions they asked was "have you ever smoked cannabis or taken an illegal drug". She had tried it once at University but said "no", and still passed with flying colours. Of course this was not a problem, but if they are as inaccurate the other way round then this could mean innocent people being refused a job.
No, it's great. It'll increase the average work day (decrease the amount of time spent happy) by 2 hours per day in the third-world, making them more like us which is what everybody really wants.
Yes they will be able to spend the evenings in Bible study groups instead of telling their ghastly traditional stories. The sooner their culture is forgotten the better.
Yes and knowing that you can get out whenever you want might also change how well you cope with being in there.
I suppose that could go either way. For some people being able to get out might make it like trying to give up smoking with a pack of cigarettes and a lighter in your pocket. For others it might be a reassurance.
Slashdot Mirror
This could be very popular with Italian Geologists.
People surf porn at work that is just going to happen, if there work does not suffer and they are adults it is far more worthwhile to spend time worrying about security which can get you in real trouble.
Even if you're careful you can get caught out by a "goatse" type link on slashdot, or once even on a supplier's technical support forum.
As I tell my customers when they ask, "You can't fix behavioral issues with technology." If employees want to waste time instead of working, they can surf the web or send chain emails. Take that away, they can play solitaire. Take that away, they can gab around the water cooler or stare into space and day-dream. Blocking porn and gambling sites is probably a good idea for liability purposes, but I can't see that it helps productivity. Most frequently I'm asked to look at log files or email and tell employers things that I simply cannot know. I can tell them that an employee didn't log in to their PC until 10am, but I have no way of knowing when they actually arrived at work.
I don't know, if the banned slashdot I would probably be working on a programming problem. On the other hand if they hadn't banned orgasm.com i'd ......
Monitoring other employees computer usage - one of the many non value adding tasks that have found their way into large corporations. It ranks up their with human resource departments!
Not quite. It doesn't have such a negative impact on other people's productivity
Never again will we be stumped by atheists when they ask where did all the water go after the flood. We can now tell them that it went to the moon, and scientists have proved it.
There must be a way to get the location services you want, like finding the local Krispy-Kreme, without broadcasting your location to the service in question. Like a blocked phone number.
Yes, Always use a disposable phone. Brought for cash. Use it only once. That's what Uncle Osama tells me.
Yeah, I got one of those email surveys. I only had to pay $10 to find out whether I had been scammed in the last 12 months. Unfortunately, they replied back that I had, though they didn't give any details about when. I'm still trying to figure it out.
But if they told you that you had and they were scamming you then it was not a scam ...... but that would mean that they told you the wrong answer, in which case it was a scam .... so the answer was right ..... my brain hurts (stack overflow).
Why? Because I have a card reader that provides an encrypted string after I provide it with my chipped card, PIN and a string from the website. I need to do this for every new transaction. I still believe that only the greedy get scammed.
Unfortunately you might need to re-sync it to gain the full security benefits.
Seriously there is one thing that is terribly wrong with these card readers. They are a gift to muggers. They can be used to verify the pin for a credit or debit card - even ones from other issuers. They don't even have to risk marching you to a cashpoint and forcing you to withdraw money, they can do it all from the comfort of their own crack-house. I complained to the bank and they pointed out that a card would be locked out after three wrong attempts. After two broken fingers I think most people would think twice before using this feature.
The best spam stopping tool is still an alert, critical mind!
And that's precisely why so many people end up being scammed.
This is precisely why I've gone back to smoke signals!
I just traded a deer carcase for the promise of a new bow and a lifetime supply of arrows you insensitive clod.
Uneducated people. These are also the people who buy shit from infomercials that will "cleanse their colon" and attend hotel ball room "lectures" on how to make hundreds of thousands of dollars trading stocks - all you have to do is pay $1200 for their "special" trading program. Of course, there are some really street smart uneducated people who get one over on MBAs - so I'm speaking about my experiences, only.
I think the "street smart" is more important than educated. I worked with a really intelligent guy, a brilliant systems programmer who signed up for timeshare he couldn't afford in a place he didn't want to go to because the agent convinced him that he could make a fortune in subletting the share.
They probably did an email survey with subject "Have you been scammed?". 28% that answer useless unsolicited mail probably have been scammed.
They were probably disappointed that the second line didn't read "The Nigerian government have a compensation scheme. Our records show that you are entitled to $20,000 thousand US dollars. Email me at ministeroffinance152342@hotmail.com for details of how to make a claim."
"Do I really want to spend a couple hundred dollars, or should I pay my rent?"
Well, I always thought that Apple fanboys were rent boys.
If the OP can generate the impression that he could leave easily and still be OK then that puts him in a much stronger position whilst talking about a pay rise.
One thing that I would advise him to do is keep discussions strictly between him and his boss, HR, etc. If he publicly says "I've got another job offer for more money, lets see if the company can match it" then the company will not just be looking at the cost of increasing his salary against replacing him. They will be looking at the potential cost of upping the salary of everyone he told as well as his against replacing him.
Yes, but that entire way of life is predicated on cheap energy, that is, oil. As energy gets more expensive, we won't be able to support a parasite class any longer.
It'll sort itself out.
Do you really think that the parasite class will be first to suffer? Eventually they'll go but history shows that they will maintain their lifestyle as the expense of others until the others rebel or die
1) Work harder than almost any other branch of schooling 2) Work for free on the evenings and weekends 3) Do things that no one cares about or appreciates 4) Life-long learning never stops, what about life? 5) Employment opportunities fall drastically after 35, you're too old 6) Watch engineering melt down and get exported to cheaper countries 7) Fuck it, go to law school
8) Profit by bringing dubiously generic and obvious patent cases against those daft enough still to be producing something for a living and who won't be able to afford to defend themselves in court.
A mountain in Wales
I skimmed over the paper and I'm not sure it's privacy that reduced the effectiveness. I think it's more out of annoyance.
Lets say there are two types of people that click on ads: People that are actually interested in get more information provided by the ad and people that just click on the ad on an impulse.
Yes I've had that annoying advert, that looks as though its got exactly what you want "Advanced Vina lessons in Leeds". When you click on it it is the Leeds section of some classified site, with two adverts; one for a used Sofa and another for gardening services!
My wife took a polygraph test to work for the police department (secretarial not an officer!). One of the questions they asked was "have you ever smoked cannabis or taken an illegal drug". She had tried it once at University but said "no", and still passed with flying colours. Of course this was not a problem, but if they are as inaccurate the other way round then this could mean innocent people being refused a job.
People in developing countries aren't afraid of the dark.
But people in developed countries are afraid of the darkies. This way we can keep an eye on them.
No, it's great. It'll increase the average work day (decrease the amount of time spent happy) by 2 hours per day in the third-world, making them more like us which is what everybody really wants.
Yes they will be able to spend the evenings in Bible study groups instead of telling their ghastly traditional stories. The sooner their culture is forgotten the better.
horizontally strung piece of string -> problem solved
Quick patent it.
Yes and knowing that you can get out whenever you want might also change how well you cope with being in there.
I suppose that could go either way. For some people being able to get out might make it like trying to give up smoking with a pack of cigarettes and a lighter in your pocket. For others it might be a reassurance.
20 minute delay ... they won't be getting first post then
Because we can totally trust what they put in them?
I'm sure that they'll contract it to a trusted supplier.