It'll be in your contract/employee agreement. "The staff member is expected to make themselves available out-of-hours". Read it carefully.
But I agree with your point - the worst I've seen is when I was expected to be available out of hours but not getting paid for it. How come, I asked the boss. The on-call allowance is factored into your salary, he said.
Factor THIS, was my reply. Well, it should have been.
Let's say this is a snack dispensing machine. You accidentally discover that if you bump the machine in a particular location, food drops without you putting any money in. You do this repeatedly. Has a crime occurred?
Conversely - I have put money into snack machines and had nothing come out. Has the machine defrauded me?
I know people who own guns and use them as penis magnification devices.
I know people who own guns and who are kind, considerate, humble people.
I know people who don't own guns and who are giant arrogant dicks.
I know people who don't own guns and who are kind people.
The guns really don't have much to do with it.
Disagree. A person with a gun has a different step available to them with their conflicts. That step (quite reasonable to them and apparently to a lot of the readers of this board) is to shoot someone.
Speaking strictly for myself, at 45 I'm unmotivated because the social impacts of new technology are unappealing to me. Mobile devices have caused people to cocoon in public places. The previous incarnations of the Internet helped bring us together. The new incarnations draw us apart and help us spy on eachother. That, and it's all what I call "surveillatizing", (surveillance+advertising). Too many things are a game designed to get us to feed personal data to some corporation. Fuck that.
It seemed like every few years, technology got boring and/or stupid to me. The Win 3.x "memory extender" era that came between 8-bit and 32-bit was such an era. I did as little 16-bit dev as possible.
This time though, it seems like the "winter" of my technological discontent is lasting longer. I first noticed this when I saw an iPhone for the first time. We were in Big Sur, and this woman was looking down at her stupid new phone instead of the flowers and hills.
Mod parent up. Yep, I've little patience for the new phone-browsers and self-promoters. Technology is still a wonderful thing though, and these i-shinys are just tools. We should be travelling to Mars and extending our base on the moon, rather than updating our Facebook status to 'single'.
FTFA..."For two days the Red Team launched attacks against the Blue Teamsâ(TM) networks and they had to defend, report and keep their systems running....NATO's Blue Team were declared the winners of the this year's exercise."
Would have been better to have the 'red team' made up of a bunch of hardened cyber criminals. Crackers, if you like. This sort of thing smacks of testing being done by developers.
I read it some 20 years ago but it's readable, presentable, hard science, well-written. I don't know if it's still in print (be amazed if not).. yes is is http://www.amazon.com/The-Red-Limit-Search-Universe/dp/068801836X or how much is still valid. 20 years is a long time in cosmology.
"are often.. scarce". Sorry, but it's a pet peeve of mine. If I could count the number of times people say "in short supply" rather than "scarce" in a month, I'd be a rich man. Well, if someone would pay me to do that sort of thing, of course...
It's a little known fact that an investigation of serial murderers has revealed that there isn't a single common motivation amongst them, nor is there a profile. The quintessential serial murderer, Charles Whitman, who climbed a clock tower and sniped dozens below, was at the time cast as the "typical loner". It wasn't released at the time that he had begged his doctors to help him for months beforehand, saying he was developing violent impulses and he didn't know why. He wrote a note just before climbing the tower asking that they do an autopsy after and look at his brain. They did. They found a tumor pressing against a region of the brain responsible for impulse control. The autopsy report at the time (incorrectly) stated that the tumor had no effect on his behavior.
Fascinating - I didn't know of the case and did some reading (ok, wikipedia...). But why 'incorrectly'? Shooting lots of people seems a very specific reaction to a loss if impulse control. Why didn't he lose bladder control, or some such more obvious reaction to loss of control. The Charles Whitman article states he was predisposed to violence and popped pills. Those seem more prone to be the cause of Whitman's instability. Disclaimer - I am not a Doctor. (IANAD?)
War and Peace is shorter than the Apple/iTunes EULA (and less densely written).
Actually, the Apple/itunes EULA incorporates 'War and Peace'. I refer you to Section 28, subsection 14, part b, which starts off with 'Well Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now part of the family estate of the Bonapartes'.
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I'm selling Beethoven's current heartrate, along with ... oh... Einstein's, Newton's, George Washington's, Oliver Cromwell's .... details on request.
Ask 'em what they want to find out. It's always the best way of making sure their expectations are met.
this is clearly a premeditated act of war by the russians. I propose we attack Uzbekistan.
Thanks god that George W. isn't still in office... he probably would.
Let's see how you survive in an airtight chamber with pure oxygen
Didn't Michael Jackson used to sleep in this environment? Yep... it's right here in the Daily mail, complete with creepy picture http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1195845/Michael-Jacksons-world-He-slept-oxygen-tent-best-friend-Bubbles-chimp.html
Gosh I miss that guy.
That would coming mostly from China now, if you can find someone over there that cares.
They are easy to find. The prisons are full of them.
Nice.
It'll be in your contract/employee agreement. "The staff member is expected to make themselves available out-of-hours". Read it carefully.
But I agree with your point - the worst I've seen is when I was expected to be available out of hours but not getting paid for it. How come, I asked the boss. The on-call allowance is factored into your salary, he said.
Factor THIS, was my reply. Well, it should have been.
Nothing better than two AC's goin at it!
Damn right. Reminds me of a really good XKCD comic I saw ... wait a second ...
How about a hat with solar cells? would it provide enough electricity to run Google glass ?
Would it sit atop of my aluminium foil hat?
Let's say this is a snack dispensing machine. You accidentally discover that if you bump the machine in a particular location, food drops without you putting any money in. You do this repeatedly. Has a crime occurred?
Conversely - I have put money into snack machines and had nothing come out. Has the machine defrauded me?
I know people who own guns and use them as penis magnification devices. I know people who own guns and who are kind, considerate, humble people. I know people who don't own guns and who are giant arrogant dicks. I know people who don't own guns and who are kind people.
The guns really don't have much to do with it.
Disagree. A person with a gun has a different step available to them with their conflicts. That step (quite reasonable to them and apparently to a lot of the readers of this board) is to shoot someone.
Speaking strictly for myself, at 45 I'm unmotivated because the social impacts of new technology are unappealing to me. Mobile devices have caused people to cocoon in public places. The previous incarnations of the Internet helped bring us together. The new incarnations draw us apart and help us spy on eachother. That, and it's all what I call "surveillatizing", (surveillance+advertising). Too many things are a game designed to get us to feed personal data to some corporation. Fuck that.
It seemed like every few years, technology got boring and/or stupid to me. The Win 3.x "memory extender" era that came between 8-bit and 32-bit was such an era. I did as little 16-bit dev as possible.
This time though, it seems like the "winter" of my technological discontent is lasting longer. I first noticed this when I saw an iPhone for the first time. We were in Big Sur, and this woman was looking down at her stupid new phone instead of the flowers and hills.
Mod parent up. Yep, I've little patience for the new phone-browsers and self-promoters. Technology is still a wonderful thing though, and these i-shinys are just tools. We should be travelling to Mars and extending our base on the moon, rather than updating our Facebook status to 'single'.
FTFA ..."For two days the Red Team launched attacks against the Blue Teamsâ(TM) networks and they had to defend, report and keep their systems running. ...NATO's Blue Team were declared the winners of the this year's exercise."
Would have been better to have the 'red team' made up of a bunch of hardened cyber criminals. Crackers, if you like. This sort of thing smacks of testing being done by developers.
once people get a hold of the fact that the enzyme is called 'Luciferase', things could get rather warm for the company (at least in the US)
We could simply rename the enzyme. I'm sure something like 'Obamase' would solve the problem.
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Could we rename the enzyme? Yes we can.
Thank you, and I'm not even an American...
Many genius level IQ people find highschool an absolutely boring, dreary, mindless, and lonely existence.
You went to Scumbag High with me, obviously...
Why not just phone? if they're not there, leave a message. I must be missing something...
I read it some 20 years ago but it's readable, presentable, hard science, well-written. I don't know if it's still in print (be amazed if not) .. yes is is http://www.amazon.com/The-Red-Limit-Search-Universe/dp/068801836X or how much is still valid. 20 years is a long time in cosmology.
Don't remember who wrote it but that might be interesting but very dated.
George O Smith. He also wrote 'Hellflower', which is as good. Ah, the 50s ... SF's golden age...
"are often.. scarce". Sorry, but it's a pet peeve of mine. If I could count the number of times people say "in short supply" rather than "scarce" in a month, I'd be a rich man. Well, if someone would pay me to do that sort of thing, of course...
May we never get to thinking that sending up a rocket into space is easy...
You know what is interesting, have you seen the new X1 from Comcast ? It really is very close to a dump terminal:
Dump terminal?
Before it gets messy.
This is similar to IT - when a user finds a bug in testing, that's a GOOD thing: it means it's not going to production like that.
Republicans doing sweeping generalizations...
They always do that sort of thing
pause....
It's a little known fact that an investigation of serial murderers has revealed that there isn't a single common motivation amongst them, nor is there a profile. The quintessential serial murderer, Charles Whitman, who climbed a clock tower and sniped dozens below, was at the time cast as the "typical loner". It wasn't released at the time that he had begged his doctors to help him for months beforehand, saying he was developing violent impulses and he didn't know why. He wrote a note just before climbing the tower asking that they do an autopsy after and look at his brain. They did. They found a tumor pressing against a region of the brain responsible for impulse control. The autopsy report at the time (incorrectly) stated that the tumor had no effect on his behavior.
Fascinating - I didn't know of the case and did some reading (ok, wikipedia...). But why 'incorrectly'? Shooting lots of people seems a very specific reaction to a loss if impulse control. Why didn't he lose bladder control, or some such more obvious reaction to loss of control. The Charles Whitman article states he was predisposed to violence and popped pills. Those seem more prone to be the cause of Whitman's instability. Disclaimer - I am not a Doctor. (IANAD?)
Surprised no-ones mentioned this one: it comes with the Planetary Society membership.
Also I get a bi-monthly local from the NZ Skeptics society. Surprisingly good.
Occasionally an 'Astronomy' or a 'Southern Skies'. Maybe a 'History today', depends what they're covering.
'Private Eye' I used to get posted out here - but unless you know who's who in British bureaucracy, you can't follow it.
Anyone actually read that thing?
War and Peace is shorter than the Apple/iTunes EULA (and less densely written).
Actually, the Apple/itunes EULA incorporates 'War and Peace'. I refer you to Section 28, subsection 14, part b, which starts off with 'Well Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now part of the family estate of the Bonapartes'.