If anyone spouts any "trickle down economics" bullshit I'll consider them a liar or a fool. [...] No tax burden will stop them from opening a new facility or hiring new people if there's profit to be made from it.
i.e. the corporations pass the tax on to the customers. Trickle, trickle.
Quick! This man is talking but something is not right. The words are real, but they don't make sense in this sequence. Chuck Norris must have given him a roundhouse kick to the head.
These days, "non Linux based router" is like saying "non carbon based life" (assuming we're talking about home networks.
In the United States a treaty has to be signed by the President and approved by two thirds of the Senate.
Unless the President is negotiating it as an executive agreement, then it's just the President. So you can:
1. Convince the President not to sign it (he has been pushing for this treaty and has to sign it in order to repay his very favorable media coverage during the election and his political connections with Biden et al).
If you would have read the fucking article you would have seen that kids were meant to take them home to do their homework.
Articles are written by third parties. This was written by the Superintendent of Schools, Lower Merion School District http://www.lmsd.org/sections/schools/default.php?t=lmhs&p=lmhs_today_anno&menu=lmhs_today&id=1143
"As I noted yesterday, this feature was limited to taking a still image of the computer user and an image of the desktop in order to help locate the reported missing, lost, or stolen computer (this includes tracking down a loaner computer that, against regulations, might be taken off campus)."
I seem to recall reading somewhere that all of the laptops were meant to remain on campus. I bet the software is designed to snap a photo if it ever comes up with a DHCP IP other than what the campus offers.
For the 40 versus 44: I'm betting it counted anything over 8 hours as "time and a half", so a 10 hour day would get shifted to 11 hours for figuring payment... but like everything else, it sounds like they coded it wrong and just increased your hours in total.
For example Apple's hardware quality has fallen significantly after moving more and more manufacturing to China. I doubt this is a coincidence.
Concur. About 1/8 of the iMacs where I work have had hardware failures, usually motherboards, although some were HDDs. And we have a non-trivial amount of machines, but they were purchased in groups of 80-ish, so we could have just gotten a bad batch like with the Dell capacitor issue back in 2005-2006.
I installed these at a client.
The issue was the employees would take an afternoon off to go to an appointment, and get buddy to clock them out at the end of the day - The emplyoee would then get paid for an afternoon they didnt work.
The time clocks have a fingerprint scanner. You place your thumb on the device as you punch out. Now buddy cant swipe out for you, and you cant defraud your employeer.
This fails the same way it fails in the movies: the buddy can cut off your thumb while you go to the dentist and use your thumb to clock you out. Joking aside, this is one of the few places where biometrics make for a good idea. Unfortunately, thumb scanners are a bad idea. Facial recognition during clock-in/out makes more sense, since a "fail" can be checked later by the boss.
They also had biometric locks instead of prox cards on the doors. Much more convieient then having to remember a card the few days when i was on site.
This fails the same way it fails in the movies: the baddy can cut off your thumb while you go to the dentist instead of just swiping your card. Now instead of just losing some files/equipment to the baddy, the company has also lost an employee to blood loss (or at least his thumb).
We had one, after the first couple of weeks people started punching it instead of "punching in". They're supposed to also have a keypad so you can manually enter an access code, since the reader is known to be undependable.
At Disney World, they require finger prints when you enter the park if you want to be able to re-enter or switch to another park (if you have a ticket that allows that). At least the government doesn't directly get them, but who knows what they're doing with them
Every night after the park closes, they dust every door handle to see who went where, and if anyone attempted to open "Employee Only" doors. Or maybe the park high mucky-mucks are fingerprint fetishists? Or maybe, just maybe, there's nothing sinister about it.
Wow, that so won't work for Grandma. How much longer until Windows is ready for the desktop???
Give them some credit for effort. They were at version 95 fifteen years ago. Assuming it's a countdown with Windows 7 being current, then Windows 1 or 0 should release in Dec 2012?
Simple. You'll buy products from American corporations. Double benefit: on one hand, you rescue American companies out of the economic depression and on the other hand, you make Chinese companies lose.
Where are the factories? Where are the means of production? Where are the steel mills? The U.S. has a lot of rebuilding to do.
Probably also shows up as a drive for Windows with a handy autorun.inf for installing said software. "Please to type administrator password for the sync"
You whippersnappers! An RPG is a Role Playing Game, of course it's a lot like life. Achievements? Alts? These are things found in MMORPGs which have nothing to do with Role Playing except a D&D style genre. They're just graphical MUDs.
That is a non-response. He does not address the allegation that the image of a student was captured by the web cam. The fact that the district is not denying it is an indicator that it did in fact happen. So, why was the web cam used? According to this letter, it would only have been used if the laptop was suspected as stolen. Was it? Again, had it been, it would have been easy to say so, and it would have gone a huge way toward calming people down. But there is no denial here. This letter is bullshit and only serves to confirm that they must be shitting their pants right about now, hoping people who aren't paying attention will just read this crap and forget about it.
I wouldn't be surprised to find that the student in question reported the laptop lost or stolen. If the School district is pressing charges, they shouldn't comment directly on the case until the student is tried and convicted of theft of the laptop. This is starting to make a lot more sense. Kid reports laptop stolen (to steal it himself), School activates lo-jack photos, kid tries to smear School before he goes to jail himself.
Please, please, follow the example of... ehh... whomever and give us a linux version!
ID. The company you're looking for is ID. And I'd play a Linux Civilization V before Freeciv any day. Freeciv's fluid "it's your turn, but it's my turn too" system is seriously screwed up.
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If anyone spouts any "trickle down economics" bullshit I'll consider them a liar or a fool. [...] No tax burden will stop them from opening a new facility or hiring new people if there's profit to be made from it.
i.e. the corporations pass the tax on to the customers. Trickle, trickle.
ACTA headquarters is probably 1600 Penn. Ave. Which treason is worse?
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of time traveling Chuck Norrises fighting each other.
Please sell the movie rights to your idea. I. Want. To. See. That.
Only Chuck Norris is safe from Chuck Norris.
Are you implying that Chuck Norris could beat up Chuck Norris?
non Linux based routers
Quick! This man is talking but something is not right. The words are real, but they don't make sense in this sequence. Chuck Norris must have given him a roundhouse kick to the head.
These days, "non Linux based router" is like saying "non carbon based life" (assuming we're talking about home networks.
In the United States a treaty has to be signed by the President and approved by two thirds of the Senate.
Unless the President is negotiating it as an executive agreement, then it's just the President. So you can:
1. Convince the President not to sign it (he has been pushing for this treaty and has to sign it in order to repay his very favorable media coverage during the election and his political connections with Biden et al).
If you would have read the fucking article you would have seen that kids were meant to take them home to do their homework.
Articles are written by third parties. This was written by the Superintendent of Schools, Lower Merion School District
http://www.lmsd.org/sections/schools/default.php?t=lmhs&p=lmhs_today_anno&menu=lmhs_today&id=1143
"As I noted yesterday, this feature was limited to taking a still image of the computer user and an image of the desktop in order to help locate the reported missing, lost, or stolen computer (this includes tracking down a loaner computer that, against regulations, might be taken off campus)."
I seem to recall reading somewhere that all of the laptops were meant to remain on campus. I bet the software is designed to snap a photo if it ever comes up with a DHCP IP other than what the campus offers.
For the 40 versus 44: I'm betting it counted anything over 8 hours as "time and a half", so a 10 hour day would get shifted to 11 hours for figuring payment... but like everything else, it sounds like they coded it wrong and just increased your hours in total.
For example Apple's hardware quality has fallen significantly after moving more and more manufacturing to China. I doubt this is a coincidence.
Concur. About 1/8 of the iMacs where I work have had hardware failures, usually motherboards, although some were HDDs. And we have a non-trivial amount of machines, but they were purchased in groups of 80-ish, so we could have just gotten a bad batch like with the Dell capacitor issue back in 2005-2006.
I installed these at a client. The issue was the employees would take an afternoon off to go to an appointment, and get buddy to clock them out at the end of the day - The emplyoee would then get paid for an afternoon they didnt work. The time clocks have a fingerprint scanner. You place your thumb on the device as you punch out. Now buddy cant swipe out for you, and you cant defraud your employeer.
This fails the same way it fails in the movies: the buddy can cut off your thumb while you go to the dentist and use your thumb to clock you out. Joking aside, this is one of the few places where biometrics make for a good idea. Unfortunately, thumb scanners are a bad idea. Facial recognition during clock-in/out makes more sense, since a "fail" can be checked later by the boss.
They also had biometric locks instead of prox cards on the doors. Much more convieient then having to remember a card the few days when i was on site.
This fails the same way it fails in the movies: the baddy can cut off your thumb while you go to the dentist instead of just swiping your card. Now instead of just losing some files/equipment to the baddy, the company has also lost an employee to blood loss (or at least his thumb).
We had one, after the first couple of weeks people started punching it instead of "punching in". They're supposed to also have a keypad so you can manually enter an access code, since the reader is known to be undependable.
Undependable because people keep punching it?
At Disney World, they require finger prints when you enter the park if you want to be able to re-enter or switch to another park (if you have a ticket that allows that). At least the government doesn't directly get them, but who knows what they're doing with them
Every night after the park closes, they dust every door handle to see who went where, and if anyone attempted to open "Employee Only" doors. Or maybe the park high mucky-mucks are fingerprint fetishists? Or maybe, just maybe, there's nothing sinister about it.
Wow, that so won't work for Grandma. How much longer until Windows is ready for the desktop???
Give them some credit for effort. They were at version 95 fifteen years ago. Assuming it's a countdown with Windows 7 being current, then Windows 1 or 0 should release in Dec 2012?
Simple. You'll buy products from American corporations. Double benefit: on one hand, you rescue American companies out of the economic depression and on the other hand, you make Chinese companies lose.
Where are the factories? Where are the means of production? Where are the steel mills? The U.S. has a lot of rebuilding to do.
And the final exam consist in hacking into Independence Day's Alien mainframe
You translated incorrectly. That's the entrance exam. Jolly Roger is bonus, though.
http://www.lmsd.org/sections/schools/default.php?t=lmhs&p=lmhs_today_anno&menu=lmhs_today&id=1143
Probably also shows up as a drive for Windows with a handy autorun.inf for installing said software. "Please to type administrator password for the sync"
"What are those swords made of, duct tape?"
"Mine's a battle axe"
You whippersnappers! An RPG is a Role Playing Game, of course it's a lot like life. Achievements? Alts? These are things found in MMORPGs which have nothing to do with Role Playing except a D&D style genre. They're just graphical MUDs.
That is a non-response. He does not address the allegation that the image of a student was captured by the web cam. The fact that the district is not denying it is an indicator that it did in fact happen. So, why was the web cam used? According to this letter, it would only have been used if the laptop was suspected as stolen. Was it? Again, had it been, it would have been easy to say so, and it would have gone a huge way toward calming people down. But there is no denial here. This letter is bullshit and only serves to confirm that they must be shitting their pants right about now, hoping people who aren't paying attention will just read this crap and forget about it.
I wouldn't be surprised to find that the student in question reported the laptop lost or stolen. If the School district is pressing charges, they shouldn't comment directly on the case until the student is tried and convicted of theft of the laptop. This is starting to make a lot more sense. Kid reports laptop stolen (to steal it himself), School activates lo-jack photos, kid tries to smear School before he goes to jail himself.
"I know you're listening" http://xkcd.com/525/
It's a reminder from 30 years ago that we are still not using technology effectively in education.
Yes we are. White boards are slightly more effective than chalk boards; they're a technological improvement.
Please, please, follow the example of ... ehh ... whomever and give us a linux version!
ID. The company you're looking for is ID. And I'd play a Linux Civilization V before Freeciv any day. Freeciv's fluid "it's your turn, but it's my turn too" system is seriously screwed up.
And I mean that sincerely. Please BSOD more botnets.