If you're trying to fault me for complaining about Google's using my data, stop. I'm not that naive. I'm the one making my own website to avoid iGoogle, remember? I'll still get ads, but not on the homepage I create, maintain, and host. It's my proactive response, the best I can do right now.
We don't use Firefox at work, so no Adblock for me there.
"Its a management style inherited from the military where there's a need for cannon fodder. Grab the rifle and charge the machine gun nest. Once the grunts start to realize that there's a better way to get the job done, and not get your ass shot off, its time to bring in the new recruits."
There was a time this was a common 'management' strategy in the U.S. military, but no more.
Today, grunts are a more precious resource, for various reasons. The most insidious one; wounded grunts are a lot more common than they used to be, and wounded grunts are very, very expensive.
No more charging the machine gun nest, or more likely the sniper nest. Technology is more useful, it's simpler to put a rocket into the window the muzzle flash came from, or just determine the building the sniper is in and give all the apparent openings a good going-over. Can the Humvees and use MRAPs to survive the IEDs. Adopt your enemy's tactics and work with the civilians to establish intelligence networks and prevent attacks.
If you're running your development effort on volume, the cannon fodder is needed to keep cranking out lines of code. But if you're doing that today, you're faling behind. It doesn't matter how much you pay per line. More line, slower troubleshooting, longer lead times will sink your project as fast as bad design and poor planning.
Actually, mass volume coding might equal poor planning and bad design.
I'm not surprised. Just pointing out that the battle is not just cookies.
I'm more amused that they think I'm still looking for containers. I ought to click through and make them burn some nickels, though I bet that doesn't work well anymore.
I looked around online for shipping containers a few weeks ago, thinking a short one would make a great storage shed. They would, but the price is a bit more than I'm prepared to pay. I looked really, really hard.
Since then, I've been seeing container ads galore. In particular, I see ads from 'Buyer Zone', and they look like they are targeted at commercial buyers, which I am not, but they can't really tell the difference.
Cookies? Nope. I get these ads at work, where I NEVER looked for containers ever. Just at home. Not every on my work machine.
Why?
Google.
I use my iGoogle page at work as the personal front page to get what I want, even Slashdot RSS feeds. And the Buyer Zone pages come up on Google pages. I use iGoogle on my personal machine also.
I'm working on converting my personal web site to a Joomla site complete with RSS feeds, links, email, and such, hopefully a GMail connector, but if not I still use GMail as the front end to my own personal mail server, so I can just go there directly. And Calendar I hope, along with other stuff. Grrr....
Then I can pull another Google thorn from my side. And avoid the Google Ads that follow you no matter what.
And if you're certain that Google doesn't do this, that they also rely on cookies, please, set me straight. And use your Google account when I ask for a personal assurance, ok?
The Google Evilmeter is reaching Critical. How much longer before it's pinned in the red?
Not like the advent of birth control, entry of women into the workforce, mechanized farming, and the increased education of women had anything to do with that?
Not even as simple as decreased child mortality, I'm afraid.
Taking personal responsibility for population growth, I meant taking the obvious step and starting with throwing yourself off a bridge. But I do NOT expect you to, since you have every right to live. So deal with the hypocrisy of telling otherds they should not procreate, knowing you only exist because someone DID.
And having as many children as possible might mean letting finances limit the number instead of biology. This, and self-centeredness, IS the reason the U.S. is experiencing real population decline.
But I was expecting a better defense of your position than 'well, it's just as bad as what we're doing now'. Really.
"moving to the suburbs and having kids is a huge contributor to the demand for resources."
Moving to the suburbs is different from settling new spaces (something not unique to the U.S.) how? Choices then may have been driven by opportunity, lack of resources where they came from, growing families, etc. So moving to the suburbs gets you opportunity (more space, bigger residence) resources (space, again?) and of course gets you out of your parents' house...
Having kids, of course, continues our species. If this is a problem for you, please, take the first step and assume personal responsibility for this problem. You should entirely understand what I mean, and more importantly, why I both expect and approve of your not doing so. And thereby negating your question about having kids, and further hopefully convincing you to avoid the argument in the future.
Of course, most of human history is marked by limited resources, huge disparity of distribution, and the struggles for those resources. Making things more expensive, and therefore more scarce to those who want or need them, is not a 'good thing', unless you find others' prosperity troubling, or you take joy in reveling in the agony of others...
The tragedy of socialism is that it offers no solace to the individual. Not even hope. The individual must be content with being tossed about by the waves of the system, unless they are part of the leadership, in which case they feed on the individuals they govern. When you look at it this way, socialism is more or less a dictatorship.
Go check out the Internet Taffic Report from time to time. Today it looks like there was significant event. Wonder what happened.....?
Now don't get me started on PMTUD. How do I explain to a user that it is not 'our' network that is the cause, we have MILLIONS of users working just fine, but everyone in their office can't get on because we broke something just to annoy them? And of course, since they can see the same error a different, unrelated site, it MUST BE US. Yeah. I'm the designated PMTUD expert on the team now, because I let their ISP talk itself into the solution. And I can read packet captures. Yay me, think I'm going off decaf for a few days...
"For every Colin Powell, Tiger Woods, Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby, whoever, there are thousands of white skinned trailer trash who would be incomprehensible to anyone except their parole officer and immediate family/tribe."
Yep. Take a tour of Down East Maine. If you can get through and understand the dialect, the similies, metaphors, and other devices will leave you shaking your head. It's almost as bad as Scotland, or Nova Scotia.
I'll take my chances with interior Mississippi dialects. And I was born in Maine. Those old wormers are just too far gone to understand once you stop talking about fish and bear, and get into politics.
Even accepting your assertion that slavery of the Jews in Egypt was fictitional, after that they had some great prosperity. It took a while, and divine intervention.
Hey, I understand, but if you reject the slavery story, you should reject the rest of them from that book.
My high school lab partner and I mixed hydrogen and chlorine in a vessel and showed it was so unstable that sunlight would ignite it. No, we didn't use very much of either, as it was pretty energetic, and gave a nice pop each trial. we popped several times to prove taking it out of the dark box was the trigger. We did manage to pop it once with rough handling, but I think the lid coming off the box caused that one.
And yes, we underestimated the amount of chlorine we generated for the experiment, and evacuated the entire wing. Hehe... Anything for a morning out of school eh? At least we know what chlorine does to window glass now.
We also burned hydrogen in the chlorine atmosphere we had handy. Colorless flame. We cooked on top of that vessel to prove combustion or something was happening in there.
Blame my o-chem teacher in high school for my not taking up a career in chemistry and so destroying all living things.
I've heard members of the Democratic Party referred to as 'Democrats' since I can remember knowing there was such a thing, easily since 1961.
I've heard the term used in that fashion by journalists and columnists since I've been reading or listening to or watching news, since 1961 at least.
I've heard proud members of the Democratic Party refer to themselves as 'Democrats', since at least 1969, and probably earlier.
I do not myself refer to the party itself as 'the Democrat Party', but rather as the 'the Democratic Party', and I make that distinction purposefully. Actually, I can't be sure I don't, because I don't pay much attention to it, but I don't think I do. Using the term 'Democrat Party' sounds wierd.
I'm not only entirely unaware of the intended insult, but when I consider it, I have no grammatically comfortable way to refer to a member of the Democratic Party other than by that term. Calling any of them a 'Democratic' sounds silly from a grammatical standpoint. And I find nothing quickly that indicates how they WANT to be referred to individually.
And I asked a friend of mine 'back home'. He busted out laughing and told me I was full of it. Then he comes back an hour later, and tells me that he shared this with a friend of his in Democratic Party leadership who got all huffy and 'set him straight'. We both think this is the reaction of the excessively partisan pols, and is more reason to not get too involved with them.
Really, the Wikipedia is infamous for slanted and biased articles. An article on the Democratic Party should be expected to be so, for several reasons - many of which should be obvious to veteran Slashdotters.
"Another principle that has served me very well while driving a car: People make mistakes"
Yes. You may have NO IDEA how often some other drivers response and thinking saved you from an unfortunate accident, or death. And rest assured that most of the time they will NOT shake their fist at you and make mouth signs. Being aware enough to avoid the problem also tends to leave you not indulging in displays of aggression, lest you then cause the accident you just avoided.
Of course, I bet many of these mistakes were part of a circumstance where regular procedures and routine events were somehow interrupted or changed. Same way with cars. It's not the routine, it's exception, that is at the root of many a problem. But nurses do not always get to dictate their routines.
"but get caught without a job guide and it's yo' ass!"
Absolutely! The guys in OMS had guides to reassemble F-4 main brakes. And it still got done wrong from time to time, with predictable results. Here is one case where the Navy had it all over us in the USAF - brakes never had to do much on a carrier except park and taxi, which even the badly assembled ones would do. Arrestor cables are not common at AF bases.
But the industry really should take charge and give the FDA something to approve.
What makes you think they are any better at terminating employees with 'extreme prejudice' than they are at anything else?
And if they let me out the door, I figure they got what they need.
But I would not be leaving behind any easter eggs or backdoors. Life is too short, and no job I've ever had was worth what was so inelegantly termed 'pound-in-the-ass-prison'. Net admins and such get that. Their big bosses and CEOs get Club Fed and conjugal visits with their wife and mistress.
I'm fairly active in the local Republican Party, and have been in other local party groups, and this is NOT commonly used as an insult. You, sir, are correct that apparently at least sone Democrats may find this insulting, but I am and have been unaware of the intention. Perception may lie with the other party, but I'm both unaware of it and uninterested in having a term I have used my entire adult life be hijacked by the 'aggrieved'.
Now, the term 'teabagger' is more recently coined, and I get that. I didn't at first, but it didn't take long.
ps- If you, sir, consider the Wikipedia as a fundamental resource and a definitive source, then you are going to be misinformed on a regular basis. You may want to educate yourself even further.
pps- ACs, in general, don't get responses from me. Having a name is pretty much universal in our world. Using yours is common courtesy. Be brave. Own your words. I do.
The conventional references are 'Republicans' and 'Democrats'.
While 'Republican Party' makes sense, 'Democrat Party' also makes sense despite being somewhat incorrect. It is similar enough to the plural that it passes just fine. The idea that it is an intentional perjorative is not only preposterous, it is contrived. I have never, never heard that in my adult life, more than 30 years' of it. Entirely made up, and beyond that, it's neither commonly known nor acknowledged.
That, my friend, is made up. Just like 'Neocon', and for similar reasons - to denigrate the Repuiblican party and its adherents, and deflect the debate from issues, focusing on unimportance and hyperbole.
"On a party-line, 57-to-41 vote after a heated debate, an effort by Democrats to fight off a Republican filibuster fell short of the 60 votes required. All 40 Republicans in attendance, including Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts, voted against it. Majority leader Harry Reid joined the GOP in opposition in a tactical move that gives him the option of bringing the bill up again later."
After I realize that the Democrats lost one vote, oh, wait, Reid making a procedural move, I then realize there were 98 votes total.. Had the two missing Sentors been available to vote, Reid would have voted in the affimative, and they carry the motion.
Sadly for them, the Democrats don't have absolute control of the Senate.
I'm in favor of disclosure, but this particular measure is mostly just tilting at windmills. They won't go all the way.
And apparently no Democrat is capable of convincing even ONE Republican of the merits of the bill. Seems as if this is just another partisan squabble. You can do better, Senators. Do.
Learn to write clearly, effectively, and succinctly. Do not use me as an example. Seriously, UNlearn everything blogs and Facebook treasures.
At least TAKE a course in ethics or philosophy. Why you do things is at least as important as how, and will be mpre so in the future.
Don't leave hobbies or avocations behind. The synergies between fun and work are important. Music teaches things you will use at work. Even seemingly unrelated stuff, glassblowing or target shooting, will keep you using the parts of your brain and psyche that are otherwise unused. No, shooting your co-workers does not count as a hobby. Maybe, MUDing your office, but that's something the ethics class might teach you something about.
A communcations degree seems to be a really popular second concentration in almost every area except maybe, well, actually, most everywhere.
A broad experience is helpful, not just to improve your employment opportunities, but to also to improve your flexibility. If you cross-train at the gym, you get the idea. Multiple disciplines train you better than one, even if you specialize.
Being able to write gives you a leg up communicating with users and management. Ethics is underappreciated, which should be obvious if you read news of Facebook's priacy choices or what happens when your first job goes flat as the company goes broke.
Technically, there are so many choices. I won't even pretend to advise on languages, structured/OOP/whatever, project management, ack, too many choices, and there are lots of/.'rs to advisors.
If they trigger their SPOT device on purpose, they get extracted NO MATTER WHAT THE CALL WAS FOR. This avoids repeat calls, and reinforces the gravity of triggering the alarm.
And send them the bill for a non-emergency extraction. They probably get one anyways, but make good and sure.
Coddling is what we are doing when we let the morons misuse technology. A better lesson to chopper them off the trail and waste their vacation than to let them run the rangers out a few times while someone is actually in danger.
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I was referring to the OP's efforts.
If you're trying to fault me for complaining about Google's using my data, stop. I'm not that naive. I'm the one making my own website to avoid iGoogle, remember? I'll still get ads, but not on the homepage I create, maintain, and host. It's my proactive response, the best I can do right now.
We don't use Firefox at work, so no Adblock for me there.
"Its a management style inherited from the military where there's a need for cannon fodder. Grab the rifle and charge the machine gun nest. Once the grunts start to realize that there's a better way to get the job done, and not get your ass shot off, its time to bring in the new recruits."
There was a time this was a common 'management' strategy in the U.S. military, but no more.
Today, grunts are a more precious resource, for various reasons. The most insidious one; wounded grunts are a lot more common than they used to be, and wounded grunts are very, very expensive.
No more charging the machine gun nest, or more likely the sniper nest. Technology is more useful, it's simpler to put a rocket into the window the muzzle flash came from, or just determine the building the sniper is in and give all the apparent openings a good going-over. Can the Humvees and use MRAPs to survive the IEDs. Adopt your enemy's tactics and work with the civilians to establish intelligence networks and prevent attacks.
If you're running your development effort on volume, the cannon fodder is needed to keep cranking out lines of code. But if you're doing that today, you're faling behind. It doesn't matter how much you pay per line. More line, slower troubleshooting, longer lead times will sink your project as fast as bad design and poor planning.
Actually, mass volume coding might equal poor planning and bad design.
I'm not surprised. Just pointing out that the battle is not just cookies.
I'm more amused that they think I'm still looking for containers. I ought to click through and make them burn some nickels, though I bet that doesn't work well anymore.
I looked around online for shipping containers a few weeks ago, thinking a short one would make a great storage shed. They would, but the price is a bit more than I'm prepared to pay. I looked really, really hard.
Since then, I've been seeing container ads galore. In particular, I see ads from 'Buyer Zone', and they look like they are targeted at commercial buyers, which I am not, but they can't really tell the difference.
Cookies? Nope. I get these ads at work, where I NEVER looked for containers ever. Just at home. Not every on my work machine.
Why?
Google.
I use my iGoogle page at work as the personal front page to get what I want, even Slashdot RSS feeds. And the Buyer Zone pages come up on Google pages. I use iGoogle on my personal machine also.
I'm working on converting my personal web site to a Joomla site complete with RSS feeds, links, email, and such, hopefully a GMail connector, but if not I still use GMail as the front end to my own personal mail server, so I can just go there directly. And Calendar I hope, along with other stuff. Grrr....
Then I can pull another Google thorn from my side. And avoid the Google Ads that follow you no matter what.
And if you're certain that Google doesn't do this, that they also rely on cookies, please, set me straight. And use your Google account when I ask for a personal assurance, ok?
The Google Evilmeter is reaching Critical. How much longer before it's pinned in the red?
Not like the advent of birth control, entry of women into the workforce, mechanized farming, and the increased education of women had anything to do with that?
Not even as simple as decreased child mortality, I'm afraid.
Boy, did you get it wrong.
Taking personal responsibility for population growth, I meant taking the obvious step and starting with throwing yourself off a bridge. But I do NOT expect you to, since you have every right to live. So deal with the hypocrisy of telling otherds they should not procreate, knowing you only exist because someone DID.
And having as many children as possible might mean letting finances limit the number instead of biology. This, and self-centeredness, IS the reason the U.S. is experiencing real population decline.
But I was expecting a better defense of your position than 'well, it's just as bad as what we're doing now'. Really.
"moving to the suburbs and having kids is a huge contributor to the demand for resources."
Moving to the suburbs is different from settling new spaces (something not unique to the U.S.) how? Choices then may have been driven by opportunity, lack of resources where they came from, growing families, etc. So moving to the suburbs gets you opportunity (more space, bigger residence) resources (space, again?) and of course gets you out of your parents' house...
Having kids, of course, continues our species. If this is a problem for you, please, take the first step and assume personal responsibility for this problem. You should entirely understand what I mean, and more importantly, why I both expect and approve of your not doing so. And thereby negating your question about having kids, and further hopefully convincing you to avoid the argument in the future.
Of course, most of human history is marked by limited resources, huge disparity of distribution, and the struggles for those resources. Making things more expensive, and therefore more scarce to those who want or need them, is not a 'good thing', unless you find others' prosperity troubling, or you take joy in reveling in the agony of others...
The tragedy of socialism is that it offers no solace to the individual. Not even hope. The individual must be content with being tossed about by the waves of the system, unless they are part of the leadership, in which case they feed on the individuals they govern. When you look at it this way, socialism is more or less a dictatorship.
And the Tragedy of the Commons is inevitable.
You don't see more of it because you don't get told, and you don't look.
Then there are the snit fits peers have to indulge in.
And the occasional stupidity.
Go check out the Internet Taffic Report from time to time. Today it looks like there was significant event. Wonder what happened.....?
Now don't get me started on PMTUD. How do I explain to a user that it is not 'our' network that is the cause, we have MILLIONS of users working just fine, but everyone in their office can't get on because we broke something just to annoy them? And of course, since they can see the same error a different, unrelated site, it MUST BE US. Yeah. I'm the designated PMTUD expert on the team now, because I let their ISP talk itself into the solution. And I can read packet captures. Yay me, think I'm going off decaf for a few days...
The Internet is not perfect.
"For every Colin Powell, Tiger Woods, Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby, whoever, there are thousands of white skinned trailer trash who would be incomprehensible to anyone except their parole officer and immediate family/tribe."
Yep. Take a tour of Down East Maine. If you can get through and understand the dialect, the similies, metaphors, and other devices will leave you shaking your head. It's almost as bad as Scotland, or Nova Scotia.
I'll take my chances with interior Mississippi dialects. And I was born in Maine. Those old wormers are just too far gone to understand once you stop talking about fish and bear, and get into politics.
Even accepting your assertion that slavery of the Jews in Egypt was fictitional, after that they had some great prosperity. It took a while, and divine intervention.
Hey, I understand, but if you reject the slavery story, you should reject the rest of them from that book.
I have this dim recollection that we could do this with GPOs in Win XP.
And we could use ZenWorks to do it also. Much nicer editor, and volatile accounts are a blessing in school labs.
Disabling removable media isn't new, just overlooked.
Yes, dear...
My high school lab partner and I mixed hydrogen and chlorine in a vessel and showed it was so unstable that sunlight would ignite it. No, we didn't use very much of either, as it was pretty energetic, and gave a nice pop each trial. we popped several times to prove taking it out of the dark box was the trigger. We did manage to pop it once with rough handling, but I think the lid coming off the box caused that one.
And yes, we underestimated the amount of chlorine we generated for the experiment, and evacuated the entire wing. Hehe... Anything for a morning out of school eh? At least we know what chlorine does to window glass now.
We also burned hydrogen in the chlorine atmosphere we had handy. Colorless flame. We cooked on top of that vessel to prove combustion or something was happening in there.
Blame my o-chem teacher in high school for my not taking up a career in chemistry and so destroying all living things.
...all of this pales next to Dune.
The first. Not the second.
And just to pound this a little further in...
I've heard members of the Democratic Party referred to as 'Democrats' since I can remember knowing there was such a thing, easily since 1961.
I've heard the term used in that fashion by journalists and columnists since I've been reading or listening to or watching news, since 1961 at least.
I've heard proud members of the Democratic Party refer to themselves as 'Democrats', since at least 1969, and probably earlier.
I do not myself refer to the party itself as 'the Democrat Party', but rather as the 'the Democratic Party', and I make that distinction purposefully. Actually, I can't be sure I don't, because I don't pay much attention to it, but I don't think I do. Using the term 'Democrat Party' sounds wierd.
I'm not only entirely unaware of the intended insult, but when I consider it, I have no grammatically comfortable way to refer to a member of the Democratic Party other than by that term. Calling any of them a 'Democratic' sounds silly from a grammatical standpoint. And I find nothing quickly that indicates how they WANT to be referred to individually.
And I asked a friend of mine 'back home'. He busted out laughing and told me I was full of it. Then he comes back an hour later, and tells me that he shared this with a friend of his in Democratic Party leadership who got all huffy and 'set him straight'. We both think this is the reaction of the excessively partisan pols, and is more reason to not get too involved with them.
Really, the Wikipedia is infamous for slanted and biased articles. An article on the Democratic Party should be expected to be so, for several reasons - many of which should be obvious to veteran Slashdotters.
That explains 'neocon', then...
"Another principle that has served me very well while driving a car: People make mistakes"
Yes. You may have NO IDEA how often some other drivers response and thinking saved you from an unfortunate accident, or death. And rest assured that most of the time they will NOT shake their fist at you and make mouth signs. Being aware enough to avoid the problem also tends to leave you not indulging in displays of aggression, lest you then cause the accident you just avoided.
Of course, I bet many of these mistakes were part of a circumstance where regular procedures and routine events were somehow interrupted or changed. Same way with cars. It's not the routine, it's exception, that is at the root of many a problem. But nurses do not always get to dictate their routines.
"but get caught without a job guide and it's yo' ass!"
Absolutely! The guys in OMS had guides to reassemble F-4 main brakes. And it still got done wrong from time to time, with predictable results. Here is one case where the Navy had it all over us in the USAF - brakes never had to do much on a carrier except park and taxi, which even the badly assembled ones would do. Arrestor cables are not common at AF bases.
But the industry really should take charge and give the FDA something to approve.
What makes you think they are any better at terminating employees with 'extreme prejudice' than they are at anything else?
And if they let me out the door, I figure they got what they need.
But I would not be leaving behind any easter eggs or backdoors. Life is too short, and no job I've ever had was worth what was so inelegantly termed 'pound-in-the-ass-prison'. Net admins and such get that. Their big bosses and CEOs get Club Fed and conjugal visits with their wife and mistress.
I'm fairly active in the local Republican Party, and have been in other local party groups, and this is NOT commonly used as an insult. You, sir, are correct that apparently at least sone Democrats may find this insulting, but I am and have been unaware of the intention. Perception may lie with the other party, but I'm both unaware of it and uninterested in having a term I have used my entire adult life be hijacked by the 'aggrieved'.
Now, the term 'teabagger' is more recently coined, and I get that. I didn't at first, but it didn't take long.
ps- If you, sir, consider the Wikipedia as a fundamental resource and a definitive source, then you are going to be misinformed on a regular basis. You may want to educate yourself even further.
pps- ACs, in general, don't get responses from me. Having a name is pretty much universal in our world. Using yours is common courtesy. Be brave. Own your words. I do.
The conventional references are 'Republicans' and 'Democrats'.
While 'Republican Party' makes sense, 'Democrat Party' also makes sense despite being somewhat incorrect. It is similar enough to the plural that it passes just fine. The idea that it is an intentional perjorative is not only preposterous, it is contrived. I have never, never heard that in my adult life, more than 30 years' of it. Entirely made up, and beyond that, it's neither commonly known nor acknowledged.
Nice bit though.
That, my friend, is made up. Just like 'Neocon', and for similar reasons - to denigrate the Repuiblican party and its adherents, and deflect the debate from issues, focusing on unimportance and hyperbole.
Take the hook out of your mouth.
From TFA linked above:
"On a party-line, 57-to-41 vote after a heated debate, an effort by Democrats to fight off a Republican filibuster fell short of the 60 votes required. All 40 Republicans in attendance, including Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts, voted against it. Majority leader Harry Reid joined the GOP in opposition in a tactical move that gives him the option of bringing the bill up again later."
After I realize that the Democrats lost one vote, oh, wait, Reid making a procedural move, I then realize there were 98 votes total.. Had the two missing Sentors been available to vote, Reid would have voted in the affimative, and they carry the motion.
Sadly for them, the Democrats don't have absolute control of the Senate.
I'm in favor of disclosure, but this particular measure is mostly just tilting at windmills. They won't go all the way.
And apparently no Democrat is capable of convincing even ONE Republican of the merits of the bill. Seems as if this is just another partisan squabble. You can do better, Senators. Do.
Learn to write clearly, effectively, and succinctly. Do not use me as an example. Seriously, UNlearn everything blogs and Facebook treasures.
At least TAKE a course in ethics or philosophy. Why you do things is at least as important as how, and will be mpre so in the future.
Don't leave hobbies or avocations behind. The synergies between fun and work are important. Music teaches things you will use at work. Even seemingly unrelated stuff, glassblowing or target shooting, will keep you using the parts of your brain and psyche that are otherwise unused. No, shooting your co-workers does not count as a hobby. Maybe, MUDing your office, but that's something the ethics class might teach you something about.
A communcations degree seems to be a really popular second concentration in almost every area except maybe, well, actually, most everywhere.
A broad experience is helpful, not just to improve your employment opportunities, but to also to improve your flexibility. If you cross-train at the gym, you get the idea. Multiple disciplines train you better than one, even if you specialize.
Being able to write gives you a leg up communicating with users and management. Ethics is underappreciated, which should be obvious if you read news of Facebook's priacy choices or what happens when your first job goes flat as the company goes broke.
Technically, there are so many choices. I won't even pretend to advise on languages, structured/OOP/whatever, project management, ack, too many choices, and there are lots of /.'rs to advisors.
If they trigger their SPOT device on purpose, they get extracted NO MATTER WHAT THE CALL WAS FOR. This avoids repeat calls, and reinforces the gravity of triggering the alarm.
And send them the bill for a non-emergency extraction. They probably get one anyways, but make good and sure.
Coddling is what we are doing when we let the morons misuse technology. A better lesson to chopper them off the trail and waste their vacation than to let them run the rangers out a few times while someone is actually in danger.
Gits.
"its just a butchering of southern USA english"
If that were true, the Justice Department would need translators to watch Paula Deen.
You cannot make this stuff up. Not even Colbert can make this stuff up.