Get a bunch of labs to try and replicate the experiment. Having an opinion before then is pretty silly. Either the experimenters stumbled onto something (regardless of their armwaving attempts to explain it) or they screwed up the experiment. Until it's been replicated (or failed to be) in multiple reputable labs, there's not much point in saying either "OMG what if it's right?!?!" or "Well OBVIOUSLY it must be wrong."
It's supposed to be frickin' SCIENCE. Just do the damn replicability experiments, publish the data, and only then start speculating wildly.
Include a single cell point inside the room which answers every attempted text call with insults, voice call with screaming, and WiFi packet with Goatse.
"It's a good way to have the best half of the workforce quit immediately and our resulting products made by overtired, overstressed deadwood. The company would then collapse into debt and ruin, and anyone who'd stayed on would be out on the street. So I guess the main question is - would I get a bonus?"
Yes. You use your own salted frequency-hopping gear, and rig a jammer to it. The jammer sends out digital noise on every frequency _except_ the one currently being used by your gear. Result: A jammed spectrum except for a very specific F-H tunnel that your comms sails right through.
You'd better be reeeeeeal sure before bringing out the pink slip that the Neckmeister isn't a diamond just needing a polish and a good setting, particularly if your main competitors are willing to provide that. If someone hands you a chainsaw and you complain it makes a lousy axe, the market won't be terribly sympathetic.
People who have been working for 5 - 10 years in a job don't like to see people younger than them master it in 1 or 2
...minutes. Over the phone plus a remote terminal session. And be better at it, despite being in a job which pays a quarter of the older person's salary.
I once went from being a smart jerk to a Helpful Harry and back to a smart jerk.
As a young smart jerk, I was promoted in a large organisation's technical division to a higher-level team. I decided that this was a chance to see what all this 'teamwork' and 'getting along' stuff was all about. So I reinvented myself: ate better, exercised more, wore corporate dress code, listened intently to what other people had to say, collaborated, etc. Drank the Kool-Aid, basically.
And I got completely screwed over. So I went back to being a smart jerk, but at a higher rate of pay, and lived happily ever after for the rest of my many many days at that employer. It did help that later, for the first time ever, I acquired a boss who was actually able to run rings around me, and it shocked me so badly that I went along with his sneaky plots purely for the coolness factor.
Easily worked around. Hire people into three-month "evaluation" positions with a view to permanency. At some point during those three months, send around a "completely optional" IQ test. At the end of the three months, transfer the ones who completed the test with an appropriate score into a new team or division. Let the other people's positions expire and lie that you were very impressed with their work and you'll keep their CVs on file for projects coming up in the next twelve months.
Alternatively, just ask useful questions at the interview. Or would that involve pulling smart people away from their jobs to be the panel?
Obviously the Pennsylvania guy got caught too soon, then.:)
Remember, kiddies, if you're making millions by being smarter than the guy next to you, remember to buy a couple of politicians with some of that cash!
However, it was within the range that the machine was actually configured to give. Unless the casino posted a message on the machine saying "Maximum Jackpot $X", and gave that amount to anyone getting a greater amount out of the machine, I can't really see that they have much of a leg to stand on.
Really, if the casino had guarantees from the machine configuration/repair company that no more than $X would be paid, the casino would probably have grounds for recovering the excess jackpot from that company. However, a consumer winning that amount should still be entitled to receive it if there is no signage indicating otherwise.
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It'd be most refreshing if chanting "U-S-A!" caused people to explode.
Get a bunch of labs to try and replicate the experiment. Having an opinion before then is pretty silly. Either the experimenters stumbled onto something (regardless of their armwaving attempts to explain it) or they screwed up the experiment. Until it's been replicated (or failed to be) in multiple reputable labs, there's not much point in saying either "OMG what if it's right?!?!" or "Well OBVIOUSLY it must be wrong."
It's supposed to be frickin' SCIENCE. Just do the damn replicability experiments, publish the data, and only then start speculating wildly.
Say, that's a catchy title. Could you help me out with some chapter headings too? :)
Is it Chuck Norris chanting?
Include a single cell point inside the room which answers every attempted text call with insults, voice call with screaming, and WiFi packet with Goatse.
"It's a good way to have the best half of the workforce quit immediately and our resulting products made by overtired, overstressed deadwood. The company would then collapse into debt and ruin, and anyone who'd stayed on would be out on the street. So I guess the main question is - would I get a bonus?"
Unexpected Branch to Fishkill
...in 3, 2, 1...
if I caught you I sure as hell would be involving the authorities
By calling them on your... oh, wait. :)
Yes. You use your own salted frequency-hopping gear, and rig a jammer to it. The jammer sends out digital noise on every frequency _except_ the one currently being used by your gear. Result: A jammed spectrum except for a very specific F-H tunnel that your comms sails right through.
Google search: "Anonymous encrypted relay" + "Unsecured WiFi in my area"
They'll never catch me now!
A Who's Who? :)
Came for "Microsoft + Arm = Windows Fista", left disappointed.
You'd better be reeeeeeal sure before bringing out the pink slip that the Neckmeister isn't a diamond just needing a polish and a good setting, particularly if your main competitors are willing to provide that. If someone hands you a chainsaw and you complain it makes a lousy axe, the market won't be terribly sympathetic.
Or "oxygen thieves".
People who have been working for 5 - 10 years in a job don't like to see people younger than them master it in 1 or 2
I once went from being a smart jerk to a Helpful Harry and back to a smart jerk.
As a young smart jerk, I was promoted in a large organisation's technical division to a higher-level team. I decided that this was a chance to see what all this 'teamwork' and 'getting along' stuff was all about. So I reinvented myself: ate better, exercised more, wore corporate dress code, listened intently to what other people had to say, collaborated, etc. Drank the Kool-Aid, basically.
And I got completely screwed over. So I went back to being a smart jerk, but at a higher rate of pay, and lived happily ever after for the rest of my many many days at that employer. It did help that later, for the first time ever, I acquired a boss who was actually able to run rings around me, and it shocked me so badly that I went along with his sneaky plots purely for the coolness factor.
Easily worked around. Hire people into three-month "evaluation" positions with a view to permanency. At some point during those three months, send around a "completely optional" IQ test. At the end of the three months, transfer the ones who completed the test with an appropriate score into a new team or division. Let the other people's positions expire and lie that you were very impressed with their work and you'll keep their CVs on file for projects coming up in the next twelve months.
Alternatively, just ask useful questions at the interview. Or would that involve pulling smart people away from their jobs to be the panel?
Every minute on the minute, plus or minus anything up to ten seconds.
Obviously the Pennsylvania guy got caught too soon, then. :)
Remember, kiddies, if you're making millions by being smarter than the guy next to you, remember to buy a couple of politicians with some of that cash!
However, it was within the range that the machine was actually configured to give. Unless the casino posted a message on the machine saying "Maximum Jackpot $X", and gave that amount to anyone getting a greater amount out of the machine, I can't really see that they have much of a leg to stand on.
Really, if the casino had guarantees from the machine configuration/repair company that no more than $X would be paid, the casino would probably have grounds for recovering the excess jackpot from that company. However, a consumer winning that amount should still be entitled to receive it if there is no signage indicating otherwise.
If it's only two pages, it's not worth clicking anyway. Who here couldn't write two pages of user screwups (or more) every week?
every website in the world that streams audio is an Italian radio station, and every news site is an Italian newspaper
Mamma mia!
An Amendment would serve, then.
Coming soon: Braillephone!