A local store has a sign they hang up that you can only see as you're leaving, which says "we reserve the right to inspect bags". Security guards ask nicely, but I walk past them with a sneer. How do I get away with it? They _don't_ have that right to begin with, so they can't reserve it.
A manager at the store blocked my path once, immediately after I purchased something, and asked to see my bag.. the bag the check-out clerk just gave me. I told him to get out of my way or I'm calling the police. He first looked like he'd be happy to have the police there until a little spark went off in his little reptilian brain and he got out of my way.
If I hang up a sign in my house saying "I reserve the right to cavity search" or "I reserve the right to confiscate your property", it doesn't mean I suddenly am exempt from laws against assault or theft perpetrated against people I asked onto my property.
until he finally formats his HD and reinstalls his OS. Which is what a geek _should_ do if they found out someone logged in as either them or root on their desktop, after calling the police and seeing if they care to collect evidence.
I suspect the author would just buy a new computer.
Perhaps the middle wheel curls back into the backpack, and the outer wheel struts fold back like angel wings? It still looks terribly cumbersome that way, but you might be able to clear an obstacle in the road or climb some short stairs.
$7/hour? Quit. Fast. You can get a simple IT helpdesk job that nets $15/hour or more.
If you stay with this job, they'll eventually promote you to a $10/hour position, then give you a 2% raise.
Programmers should be making $17/hour minimum, even webmaster "programmers".
It would be a nice fairy tale if, the next time the editors post a story about greenpeace, NOT A SINGLE PERSON COMMENTS. "Three Billy Goats Gruff" would be really boring without the troll:
A little billy goat went to cross a bridge, and he did!
His older brother crossed the bridge too.
The oldest brother crossed the bridge after them.
The End.
I like Q's method of doing anything: Change physical laws of the universe in question. Now that would be an awesome method of FTL communication; "Constant Modulation". It'd be a party-line though.
"Get off the Speed of Light, we're trying to discuss philosophy here."
"These kids won't shut up, let's switch over to Plank's Constant."
"Civilizations still using technology based on wheels or gears crumbled yesterday as an error in a CM transmitter changed PI by more than 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001."
Next they will be selling X-Ray glasses made with this to kids with ads in comic books... You haven't read a comic book recently; they're all used car classifieds and personal ads.
MEMPTO RAYS: A QUALITATIVE STUDY
IN METAPARAPHILOSOPHICAL RADIATION
by Mempto
Despite Felcrodan's theory of 0335, there are, indeed, rays of energy that constantly bombard Britannia. In fact, these very same rays permeate of all the known space between Britannia and the stars. Recent experiments have proven my theory that these rays, known hereafter as "Mempto Rays", are lethal to all non-living matter. In fact, Mempto rays have demonstrated their ability numerous times, once killing an entire boulder in a matter of a few hours. It is my recommendation...
Then I retract my comment; I have nothing against the mentally handicapped in general, but I'm not sure granting them bionic super powers would be a good idea per se.
so this would be good for patients in hospitals & home in diagnosing epilepsy. Agreed; I had to wear a home EEG fifteen years ago, complete with wires and paste all over my head, and a cassette recorder on my hip. This sounds much cleaner, and more socially acceptable.
I don't know what North America you live in, but I see people wearing ballcaps quite often. Also, just wait until this tech is perfected into a thin circlet or a set of tiny dermal pads one can wear under your hair (or have implanted just under the skin).
It's pretty clear that a normal athlete with a spring attached to their foot wouldn't be allowed... We have the special olypmics for a reason. I'm sure this guy can win there, and wish him luck in that... but not in the normal olympics. I can't wait until the special olympics are outperforming regular olympics, kind of like a super-hero olympics made up of bionic people.
In my experience, Google HR has a habit of sending me rather straightforward requests to come interview, and I keep telling them I like where I live, and I like being able to touch my servers.
The worst thing you can do with your first "no" is provide a reason. Then they will focus on this reason until they find a chink in your armor, and you'll come up with another reason and they'll get angry.
First, just say "no".
Only if they demand an answer, give them as many reasonable reasons as you can think of, all at once, saying "no external connections; security policy" (only if true; and it should be... just because your DB has passwords doesn't mean it doesn't have vulnerabilities) and/or "potentially random queries against the production database can degrade performance" (again, only if true). Both are strong enough but vague enough that the client should be quiet about it.
Always attempt to couch reasons as near to what the client wants as possible. They want their DB safe from prying eyes, they want their website to run well. Try not to say something like "for the security of our servers" unless you put it at the bottom of the list because they don't care about that, and if they're like most clients, they won't grasp that (yourserver.owned == theirdata.compromised)
If they're still persistent, get another job; sounds like your management doesn't have a backbone
Off the future OLPC website:
"XO is built from Microsoft software. Our commitment to software gives children the opportunity to use their laptops on our own terms. While we do not expect any child from the third world to become a programmer, we do want a ceiling imposed on those children who choose to modify their machines. We are using closed-document formats for much the same reason: transparency is empowering, but obscurity is frustrating. The children--and their teachers--will not have the freedom to reshape, reinvent, and reapply their software, hardware, and content. We want them frustrated and angry, fighting amongst themselves for the right to suck at our bitter teat."
The G1G1 program was targeted entirely at do gooders who thought they were helping someone in the third world. Wonder what they think now that they have learned they spent an extra $200 to supply some kid with a free hit of XP. Given Negroponte's corruption, I wouldn't be surprised if the only things sent from OLPC for that $400 was first the G1G1 XO to the US customer, and a certificate detailing the promise to send an identical XO to a child in the second world (as long as that model remains in stock). Since the Windows ones aren't identical, Negroponte just sold a bunch of $100 laptops for $400 each, and will force the developing nations to buy Windows laptops for slightly less than $400 (after the hardware costs drive manufacturing costs up to $200 per laptop).
If you've watched the series, or the movie, you'll know why this is so, so, so, utterly wrong. Eww. Maybe Racer X should change his name to Racer Oedipal?
You've never had coworkers disappear only to find out later they moved close to NSA headquarters and they've now got money out the wazoo, have you? The _really_ good computer folk get paid a lot of money to do neat things by you and me (well, me anyway; not sure if you're from the U.S.). Even if they were only getting paid the same, they'd probably still do it because it's interesting work, and you can't beat a government job for benefits and stability.
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A local store has a sign they hang up that you can only see as you're leaving, which says "we reserve the right to inspect bags". Security guards ask nicely, but I walk past them with a sneer. How do I get away with it? They _don't_ have that right to begin with, so they can't reserve it.
A manager at the store blocked my path once, immediately after I purchased something, and asked to see my bag.. the bag the check-out clerk just gave me. I told him to get out of my way or I'm calling the police. He first looked like he'd be happy to have the police there until a little spark went off in his little reptilian brain and he got out of my way.
If I hang up a sign in my house saying "I reserve the right to cavity search" or "I reserve the right to confiscate your property", it doesn't mean I suddenly am exempt from laws against assault or theft perpetrated against people I asked onto my property.
I suspect the author would just buy a new computer.
Does having your computer be a zombie node equate to "access"? ;-)
They'd be a Cyclone pilot.
Perhaps the middle wheel curls back into the backpack, and the outer wheel struts fold back like angel wings? It still looks terribly cumbersome that way, but you might be able to clear an obstacle in the road or climb some short stairs.
Considering RHEL 5 Desktop was still using FF1.5, you may have something there (at least from RH's perspective).
$7/hour? Quit. Fast. You can get a simple IT helpdesk job that nets $15/hour or more.
If you stay with this job, they'll eventually promote you to a $10/hour position, then give you a 2% raise.
Programmers should be making $17/hour minimum, even webmaster "programmers".
Only Lord Bafford could be pretentious enough to use a new punctuation mark. ~
Piracy? Japanese Whalers?
This isn't terrorism, it's the eternal struggle of Pirate Versus Ninja!
A little billy goat went to cross a bridge, and he did!
His older brother crossed the bridge too.
The oldest brother crossed the bridge after them.
The End.
I like Q's method of doing anything: Change physical laws of the universe in question. Now that would be an awesome method of FTL communication; "Constant Modulation". It'd be a party-line though.
"Get off the Speed of Light, we're trying to discuss philosophy here."
"These kids won't shut up, let's switch over to Plank's Constant."
"Civilizations still using technology based on wheels or gears crumbled yesterday as an error in a CM transmitter changed PI by more than 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001."
Did you try "aptitude search exherbo"? There might have been a usable apt description there.
MEMPTO RAYS: A QUALITATIVE STUDY
IN METAPARAPHILOSOPHICAL RADIATION
by Mempto
Despite Felcrodan's theory of 0335, there are, indeed, rays of energy that constantly bombard Britannia. In fact, these very same rays permeate of all the known space between Britannia and the stars. Recent experiments have proven my theory that these rays, known hereafter as "Mempto Rays", are lethal to all non-living matter. In fact, Mempto rays have demonstrated their ability numerous times, once killing an entire boulder in a matter of a few hours. It is my recommendation...
Then I retract my comment; I have nothing against the mentally handicapped in general, but I'm not sure granting them bionic super powers would be a good idea per se.
I don't know what North America you live in, but I see people wearing ballcaps quite often. Also, just wait until this tech is perfected into a thin circlet or a set of tiny dermal pads one can wear under your hair (or have implanted just under the skin).
In my experience, Google HR has a habit of sending me rather straightforward requests to come interview, and I keep telling them I like where I live, and I like being able to touch my servers.
The worst thing you can do with your first "no" is provide a reason. Then they will focus on this reason until they find a chink in your armor, and you'll come up with another reason and they'll get angry.
First, just say "no".
Only if they demand an answer, give them as many reasonable reasons as you can think of, all at once, saying "no external connections; security policy" (only if true; and it should be... just because your DB has passwords doesn't mean it doesn't have vulnerabilities) and/or "potentially random queries against the production database can degrade performance" (again, only if true). Both are strong enough but vague enough that the client should be quiet about it.
Always attempt to couch reasons as near to what the client wants as possible. They want their DB safe from prying eyes, they want their website to run well. Try not to say something like "for the security of our servers" unless you put it at the bottom of the list because they don't care about that, and if they're like most clients, they won't grasp that (yourserver.owned == theirdata.compromised)
If they're still persistent, get another job; sounds like your management doesn't have a backbone
Off the future OLPC website: "XO is built from Microsoft software. Our commitment to software gives children the opportunity to use their laptops on our own terms. While we do not expect any child from the third world to become a programmer, we do want a ceiling imposed on those children who choose to modify their machines. We are using closed-document formats for much the same reason: transparency is empowering, but obscurity is frustrating. The children--and their teachers--will not have the freedom to reshape, reinvent, and reapply their software, hardware, and content. We want them frustrated and angry, fighting amongst themselves for the right to suck at our bitter teat."
If you've watched the series, or the movie, you'll know why this is so, so, so, utterly wrong. Eww. Maybe Racer X should change his name to Racer Oedipal?
You've never had coworkers disappear only to find out later they moved close to NSA headquarters and they've now got money out the wazoo, have you? The _really_ good computer folk get paid a lot of money to do neat things by you and me (well, me anyway; not sure if you're from the U.S.). Even if they were only getting paid the same, they'd probably still do it because it's interesting work, and you can't beat a government job for benefits and stability.