My wife manages an apartment complex. She was having problems with messes left in the laundry room. We installed a fake camera with a flashing led light.
The office had a second door with a peep hole into the laundry. To give the camera an air of legitimacy, she sat in the office one night and made a note of everyone who came into the laundry. When they came in to pay their rent the next week, she mentioned that she saw them doing their laundry on the "tape" and asked about a fictitious mess that was left.
She managed to do this to a couple of the complex gossips, and never had a problem in there again.
Consider the small telecommunications company I work for. Our big projects are years in the making -- like trenching a fiber optic line across 3 states through a mountain range. You can't just put that on hold for 2-3 years.
We're cutting back on extravagances. I'll probably wait one more year for the new computer I was supposed to get last month.
An economic downturn will kill an already unhealthy company, but a good employer with a stable balance sheet knows how to weather the storm.
Perhaps his employer is trying to entrap him into committing a fireable offense.
Even at high level, I'm sure there is a well established policy on installing unauthorized software.
That said, don't feel too bad. My last job was in a warehouse (only thing I could find locally at the time, but the pay was still decent and they had great benefits -- and I got to drive a big forklift all day). The only compliment management ever gave was not escorting you out the door the instant you gave notice. Unfortunately it also meant you didn't get the free 2-week bonus vacation.
The point is most employers are afraid of betrayal, sabotage and vindication from lame duck employees. The employee/employer relationship is rarely a partership.
Talk about shoddy journalism by engadget. Where the hell does the line start? Are they just standing outside the store? Is it moving? Is there a theater premiering Indy 4 nearby?
Reminds me of a MS advertising campaign a few years back. Sys-admins got a package with a carabiner and some fancy marketing speak that said their new software would support you in a crunch.
Stupid PR people didn't notice the carabiner was the crappy kind you use on your keys. Those are boldly engraved, "Not load bearing." (Troll comment incoming:) At least they were truthful in their advertising.
2.4 Patch was the end for me. The game finally became more tedious than work.
I actually think the downfall was the drop to 25-man raids from 40. In MC, you really only had 25 players who where on their game and contributing to the kill. If you don't believe me, think about the the last time you were in there and how many were alive when a boss was at 75%, 50%, 10%?
Those other 15 "raiders" were the real entertainment. They were the ones who kept the game a game and not just a mindless grind.
In the 25 mans, everyone must bring their "A" game or you wipe. There is no room for goofing around anymore.
I worked at one place where all you had to account for was the case with the serial number on it. Internal components could be swapped or moved freely.
When a cowirker left, typically the ram was the first to go followed shortly by any internal HDDs or Zip drives.
It wasn't even unheard of to be missing a stick or two of ram when you got back from vacation.
I live in Nevada, so I think my opinion ought to count for something.
Not to be heartless, but the guy was known for adventuring -- or in other words -- endangering his own life for thrills. He flaunted standard safety protocols for entertainment, and lost his life for it.
And lets not forget he had the financial resources to undertake these adventures.
Even in death, he should pay to clean up the mess he left.
1. Everyone has someone they can ask for help -- maybe its even just their teenage neighbor.
2. Malware asks you to install something for a fee from a commercial website, but it never hurts to ask them to check out a website for more info. The entire advertising industry (along with every spammer in the world) uses this strategy pretty effectively.
3. If so few people were gullible, we wouldn't have the problem in the first place.
Why don't they order the infected machines to pop up with a window that says, "This computer is infected by the Stormbot. Please report this message to your IT administrator." and include a url to a webpage with some cleaning instructions.
In a previous job as a middle manager, I was tasked with chairing a committee to reallocate resources and responsibilities among 3 departments (including mine).
We developed two plans that were acceptable to all involved, but came to an impasse on which was better. I favored a plan that improved product quality, while the other manager favored a plan that retained creative control under his guidance. We both had valid points for choosing our favored plans, but we could not concede to each other.
We presented both plans to upper management, with each manager extolling their point of view. The CEO sat back - as I'd seen many times - and told us to go back and figure it out. We received no guidance whatsoever. The project stalled due to the lack of leadership. Two months later, the other manager left, and my plan was implement by default.
Was my plan any better? No. But the lack of leadership and governance from top brass caused the attrition of a talented employee.
Pit bosses don't notice that you win. They notice that you are changing your bet. If you bet $5 ten hands in a row, then throw down a $100 chip, the dealer is going to alert the pit boss.
I was playing $5 chips in a nevada casino and slowly started raising my bets when I had a lucky streak. (I blame good hands, and the lack of idiots at the table hitting when the dealer was showing a 16.)
Eventually they started paying me in $25 chips, but when I played the first of those, the dealer yelled out "green action" to tell the pit boss.
I saw BBS like a week's worth of Dilbert cartoons by stringing a bunch of unrelated absurdities together under an odd theme. Personally, I felt like there were too many gratuitous naked spammer sceens.
You really don't understand how a cable company operates.
Networks offer packages to the local operator (or big nationals like Comcast). They are package deals. I can personally verify that the small (8k subs) cable operator I work for would never carry MTV2, MTV Jams, or MTV Hits if they weren't part of a package that included Noggin and Nick Toons.
The problem is at the networks, not the cable operator. They are just like the recording industry who still thinks you can put an hour of crap on a CD, throw in two good songs and ship it out the door.
Now that digital cable is really getting wide deployment (again thanks to the FCC), ala carte wouldn't be hard technically, but the economic constraints placed upon an operator by the networks like Turner, MTV, Scripps (Discovery Channel), Fox, etc. prevent an operator from doing so.
I know Starcraft isn't a FPS, but its where I learned about sacrificing an occasional death for progress.
There was one Terran level I couldn't get past. I was able to build up a ton of battleships, but they were so expensive I never wanted to lose one, so I couldn't beat that level.
I finally got frustrated and sent the full force in. I traded a few deaths for a breach in the defenses and an easy win.
A company I used to work for used a photo of a guy from a stock CD. The advertising implied the model used our product and it helped his prostate problem. I guess it got into wide enough circulation that the model saw it and sued. He said it was a violation of the royalty free license.
That photo from a $129 stock CD ended up costing my employer about 5 grand.
The way I heard it, the councilman called the publisher and was mad his arrest was front page news.
The end result was I was vindicated when the AP picked up the story a day later and really ran the guy through the ringer.
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Or it could possibly be that you can't even buy an iPhone from Apple [store.apple.com] at the moment.
The office had a second door with a peep hole into the laundry. To give the camera an air of legitimacy, she sat in the office one night and made a note of everyone who came into the laundry. When they came in to pay their rent the next week, she mentioned that she saw them doing their laundry on the "tape" and asked about a fictitious mess that was left.
She managed to do this to a couple of the complex gossips, and never had a problem in there again.
We're cutting back on extravagances. I'll probably wait one more year for the new computer I was supposed to get last month.
An economic downturn will kill an already unhealthy company, but a good employer with a stable balance sheet knows how to weather the storm.
Even at high level, I'm sure there is a well established policy on installing unauthorized software.
That said, don't feel too bad. My last job was in a warehouse (only thing I could find locally at the time, but the pay was still decent and they had great benefits -- and I got to drive a big forklift all day). The only compliment management ever gave was not escorting you out the door the instant you gave notice. Unfortunately it also meant you didn't get the free 2-week bonus vacation.
The point is most employers are afraid of betrayal, sabotage and vindication from lame duck employees. The employee/employer relationship is rarely a partership.
Talk about shoddy journalism by engadget. Where the hell does the line start? Are they just standing outside the store? Is it moving? Is there a theater premiering Indy 4 nearby?
Stupid PR people didn't notice the carabiner was the crappy kind you use on your keys. Those are boldly engraved, "Not load bearing." (Troll comment incoming:) At least they were truthful in their advertising.
As the game currently stands, the margin of error is minuscule. Every end-game player wears the same gear. Creativity and individuality are absent.
There was an unseen beauty in random loot drops.
I actually think the downfall was the drop to 25-man raids from 40. In MC, you really only had 25 players who where on their game and contributing to the kill. If you don't believe me, think about the the last time you were in there and how many were alive when a boss was at 75%, 50%, 10%?
Those other 15 "raiders" were the real entertainment. They were the ones who kept the game a game and not just a mindless grind.
In the 25 mans, everyone must bring their "A" game or you wipe. There is no room for goofing around anymore.
When a cowirker left, typically the ram was the first to go followed shortly by any internal HDDs or Zip drives.
It wasn't even unheard of to be missing a stick or two of ram when you got back from vacation.
I want that five minutes of my life back.
Not to be heartless, but the guy was known for adventuring -- or in other words -- endangering his own life for thrills. He flaunted standard safety protocols for entertainment, and lost his life for it.
And lets not forget he had the financial resources to undertake these adventures.
Even in death, he should pay to clean up the mess he left.
2. Malware asks you to install something for a fee from a commercial website, but it never hurts to ask them to check out a website for more info. The entire advertising industry (along with every spammer in the world) uses this strategy pretty effectively.
3. If so few people were gullible, we wouldn't have the problem in the first place.
Why don't they order the infected machines to pop up with a window that says, "This computer is infected by the Stormbot. Please report this message to your IT administrator." and include a url to a webpage with some cleaning instructions.
Dr. Who is considered educational in the U.K. I don't think that requirement would be too hard.
McDonald's should give me free Big Mac's, and I'll let them mention it on their website.
In a previous job as a middle manager, I was tasked with chairing a committee to reallocate resources and responsibilities among 3 departments (including mine).
We developed two plans that were acceptable to all involved, but came to an impasse on which was better. I favored a plan that improved product quality, while the other manager favored a plan that retained creative control under his guidance. We both had valid points for choosing our favored plans, but we could not concede to each other.
We presented both plans to upper management, with each manager extolling their point of view. The CEO sat back - as I'd seen many times - and told us to go back and figure it out. We received no guidance whatsoever. The project stalled due to the lack of leadership. Two months later, the other manager left, and my plan was implement by default.
Was my plan any better? No. But the lack of leadership and governance from top brass caused the attrition of a talented employee.
I was playing $5 chips in a nevada casino and slowly started raising my bets when I had a lucky streak. (I blame good hands, and the lack of idiots at the table hitting when the dealer was showing a 16.)
Eventually they started paying me in $25 chips, but when I played the first of those, the dealer yelled out "green action" to tell the pit boss.
My email of choice is not@chance.com
I saw BBS like a week's worth of Dilbert cartoons by stringing a bunch of unrelated absurdities together under an odd theme. Personally, I felt like there were too many gratuitous naked spammer sceens.
Networks offer packages to the local operator (or big nationals like Comcast). They are package deals. I can personally verify that the small (8k subs) cable operator I work for would never carry MTV2, MTV Jams, or MTV Hits if they weren't part of a package that included Noggin and Nick Toons.
The problem is at the networks, not the cable operator. They are just like the recording industry who still thinks you can put an hour of crap on a CD, throw in two good songs and ship it out the door.
Now that digital cable is really getting wide deployment (again thanks to the FCC), ala carte wouldn't be hard technically, but the economic constraints placed upon an operator by the networks like Turner, MTV, Scripps (Discovery Channel), Fox, etc. prevent an operator from doing so.
Seems like I should be registering this and pointing it to my porn/phishing site right now.
There was one Terran level I couldn't get past. I was able to build up a ton of battleships, but they were so expensive I never wanted to lose one, so I couldn't beat that level.
I finally got frustrated and sent the full force in. I traded a few deaths for a breach in the defenses and an easy win.
That photo from a $129 stock CD ended up costing my employer about 5 grand.
The way I heard it, the councilman called the publisher and was mad his arrest was front page news. The end result was I was vindicated when the AP picked up the story a day later and really ran the guy through the ringer.
Unless we are talking about poaching eggs, I'd call hunting out of season an illegal activity.