While I agree with you on most things in your post, she didn't have a sticker like you describe, she had a photo of graffiti on her camera.
Try reading the article, you might her reason for having the photo and what she told security about it.
Generally the people doing the work don't get to go to conferences, their bosses go as junket opportunities.
Is your conference someplace warm? Is it near any tourist attractions?
These are keys to greater attendance.
Also how is your buzzword count in your promotional materials?
In any case good luck with your conference and I hope it goes well for you.
Dual 2.4 Ghz Intel processor, 4 GB RAM, 250 Gig HD, 13" screen, would have been cheaper if I bought the RAM someplace else but I was in a hurry.
Runs OSX, XP, Vista without trouble. Cranks through photo, audio and video editing nicely. For me since I own and support both Windows and Mac computers it is a good deal.
I have never actually met a $2800 laptop of any brand. But maybe that's because I buy actual, not hypothetical computers.:)
No need to apologize, I admire your attitude and wish you nothing but good fortune with it.:)
I am simply more cautious, from past experiences I know that all it takes is to have one person jump to a wrong conclusion and you are labeled a pedophile, even if you did nothing, even if the police agree you did nothing, you are still tarred with that brush, permanently. My outlook is also influenced by the fact that I know such charges stay in your police record, even if nothing comes of them. I am friends with police and county prosecutors, it gives you a new view of how much is kept on record in your encounters with law enforcement.:)
For me it is simply not worth the risk, I do not have the money for a good legal defense and I work for a public institution, just being accused, not even charged but accused could cost me my job.
So I am risk averse on this topic.:)
My apologies but being a male and staying away from children in public places it is not about being "frightened." It is about avoiding the risk of being charged as a pedophile or questioned by the police as to your interactions with the child. Especially if you are, in my case, middle aged, overweight and single. The women I date know me better, but people are conditioned to assume sexual predator and it is possible they will take their anger/discomfort about loosing track of a child and anything else bugging them out on you. Once you are accused of this, even if you are never charged, it is impossible to entirely escape. I watched this happen to men I respected in the 80's, 90's and the early 2000's. They were helpful and not predators, but that didn't stop the accusations. At least the whole "recovered memory" fad has mostly died out. If I see a child in distress I do not approach, I look for a woman, staff member or call someone. It is not because I am "frightened" it is because I have seen what happens when people jump to conclusions. Once you are tarred with that brush, guilty or not you never escape it. I was nicer and less cautious when I was younger, but I have learned better in the last 20 years.
Ah, the good old days of Notes 5. The switch was made around 2000, I started working IT for UNL about April 2001 and they were still bringing people over. At UNL students, with some exceptions, have bigred.unl.edu accounts for campus mail, staff and faculty are given Lotus Notes accounts. Other schools in the UN system have moved everyone including students over.
I e-mailed the Lotus Notes team about the poor spelling, we will see how it takes them to fix it.:)
The need to show proof of age is a good thing, for people outside the studio to know a performer's real name, address and contact information is a potential hazard. Few people want to be their job 24/7 and when a person's job is in porn, especially as a performer, the wrong people knowing can be a pain or even hazardous. From experience doing tech support for people in the porn business and BDSM photography the list of potential "wrong people" can be long. What I have seen personally in the last 10 years includes:
Stalkers
Threats and harassment from supposedly "moral" and "Christian" neighbors.
Law enforcement or others who assume they get sex or whatever else they want from a woman since she works in porn. (This has related to item 1.)
Trouble with day jobs and employers at other jobs.
Legal problems from law enforcement's assumptions about porn performers.
Some people working in porn, or any business, are stupid or mean and deserve what they get, but many are reasonable enough people who don't need or deserve that much extra shit.
Many, many people get weird about sex and sexuality, and it often comes out in aggressive and unkind ways towards people that are easy targets.
Honestly one or two of the things captured on the A/V recording security I have set up for people on their phones or as part of their house security to deal with harassment and stalkers has made my skin crawl.
I was referring to the U.S. income from taxes vs. expenditures rather than balance of trade, but I agree with you the US trade balance is a serious problem that is going to cause us a lot of pain some day.
I have wondered how much trouble it would be to set this up. Once a month a military team hunts down and kills a spammer or group of spammers on Pay-Per-View. I bet people would pay money to see that. Entertainment and social good! What could be better?:)
I enjoyed writing science journalism, but it was often frustrating for the reasons you mention.
In most cases you don't have enough word count or time to do justice to the context or the implications of what you are writing about. An example from my experience is neuro prosthetics research. I ended up focusing on making sure what I wrote was accurate and complete within the narrow scope of one group's research in relation in controlling seizures. In my situation I had an advantage and a disadvantage. I was usually writing about technology or research results that helped me narrow and anchor a story, but I was often writing for a paper, so I had to write shorter stories than a magazine or journal.
I went to college the first time for physics, the second time for journalism and am now a technician and an editor. What I learned was having a science background helps, having generalists in a field you can talk to first before asking the specialists questions helps and if you can review the story with your science sources so much the better. You may not get to include as much context as you want, but you can write to minimize, although not eliminate, errors you might make and the incorrect assumptions other people might make. Ideally you have non science and non tech types read a draft and talk it over with them, but that often takes more time than you have.
That said in reality it can be a tough decision with many variables to report criminal activity on a user's computer that you administer. Often your superiors will blame you and not the criminal. Two things I have found helpful in my own experience are knowing the politics around the company and talking to an IT savy lawyer. The lawyer can help determine what laws are broken, if any, and how the company computer use policy is writtten. Knowing the politics around the company can help you guess which way the grief is going to roll down hill, on the person misusing the computer, or on you. Study, plan and organize before you say anything.
As a shortcut, ask yourself, what would the BOFH do?
He said no to the police. Unless you have enough money or friends you always pay when you do that. Especially these days.
Remember, most law enforcement know the rest of us are lower life forms than they are.
The law does not matter, being right does not matter, nearly as much as money or power.
Get used to it, it's going to keep getting worse before, if, it gets better.
There are rapidly getting to be enough broad laws out there that everyone is guilty of something.
You might just not know you have done anything wrong.
With an FBI employee getting caught surfing ebay from their desk instead of working. They claimed to be looking for stolen property, the excuse caught on, and now it can be an assignment.:)
I wonder if she would have gotten in as much trouble if she had been white? A quick look at her picture in the article shows her to be well dressed but perhaps a little darker than the average kid in the theater.
The more laws you have often the more selectively they are enforced.
Having worked crappy, low end, and not crappy, higher end, security it has on occasion been educational and entertaining to watch my employers' biases in action in what we are told to look for or pursue. These jobs were in large metropolitan areas as well, not small out of the way places, with dress codes ranging from 100% polyester to nice suits.
I may be biased to see human stupidity though. Several years ago I had to explain to an assistant dean of our college that the young black woman she had so rudely rushed out of the college's new building the night before was one of the computer techs getting the building ready to open in two weeks.:) To be fair the assistant dean was in general an idiot and clueless about technology, but still.
All laws, especially bad or poorly written, can become weapons in the hands of human bias and stupidity.
I would be curious about how this technology interacts with cameras and video cameras. I trained as a photographer and videographer before I left journalism to make a decent wage.
1. Can technology like this be modified to screw up cameras and video cameras? American and British police seem to be getting more and more bashful about having their actions in public places recorded. Current methods of seizing or disabling recording equipment are a lot more obvious than an "accidental" flashing of a camera sensor. It seems unlikely from how the article describes this weapon but it may be possible.
2. What happens if you are looking through a viewfinder at the crowd when one of these is fired?
The rangefinder idea sounds good for a single target, but seems impractical for the "bazooka" crowd control version. A crowd control version might be a good way to knock out any potential press coverage of the people doing the crowd control.
Walk in door.
Get caffeine from fridge.
Check in with my IT and non IT coworkers. (I work in a small shop, about 30 people)
Start dealing with immediate problems if there are any.
Start music in my office.
E-mail, voice mails.
Check automated tools and processes.
( I supervise other people but I am usually the first in the office. Am I a manager?)
Open/.
Look at to do list, reorganize and start knocking items off.
I agree with you. My post was an overgeneralization of problems concentrated mostly in certain types of articles. Thanks for a well written correction.:)
I like your idea about preventing collusion but have no idea how to implement it.
To me Wikipedia is never to be trusted as an authoritative source on anything, although it can be lots of fun and a great starting place to read up on something before moving to more reliable sources. Not that other sources are always perfect, but they tend to be less prone to error than much of wikipedia.
They will likely research what they write, write well and have it sh*t on by the general wikipedia trolls, or worse, people who think they know what they are writing about.
I was agreeing with you right up to the clueless libeal masses comment. The media does so often get it wrong. But that's ok, I have made some good money of people who talk like you. I have bet them they were wrong about WMD's in Iraq, the neo-con talking points blankly repeated without fact checking or atribution, the length of our troops stay in Iraq etc. Actually I am still collecting on that one as people many of us know and care about personally are still in Iraq.
I did agree with you until the overgeneralized insult though. Have a good week.
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While I agree with you on most things in your post, she didn't have a sticker like you describe, she had a photo of graffiti on her camera. Try reading the article, you might her reason for having the photo and what she told security about it.
Generally the people doing the work don't get to go to conferences, their bosses go as junket opportunities. Is your conference someplace warm? Is it near any tourist attractions? These are keys to greater attendance. Also how is your buzzword count in your promotional materials? In any case good luck with your conference and I hope it goes well for you.
Check out Sarcasma, a sarcastic take on just that question. :)
http://www.sarcasma.net/sarcasma_002.htm
Dual 2.4 Ghz Intel processor, 4 GB RAM, 250 Gig HD, 13" screen, would have been cheaper if I bought the RAM someplace else but I was in a hurry. Runs OSX, XP, Vista without trouble. Cranks through photo, audio and video editing nicely. For me since I own and support both Windows and Mac computers it is a good deal. I have never actually met a $2800 laptop of any brand. But maybe that's because I buy actual, not hypothetical computers. :)
and a hawaiian shirt to work. I wonder if they will let me put some beach sounds on the server room stereo. :)
No need to apologize, I admire your attitude and wish you nothing but good fortune with it. :)
I am simply more cautious, from past experiences I know that all it takes is to have one person jump to a wrong conclusion and you are labeled a pedophile, even if you did nothing, even if the police agree you did nothing, you are still tarred with that brush, permanently. My outlook is also influenced by the fact that I know such charges stay in your police record, even if nothing comes of them. I am friends with police and county prosecutors, it gives you a new view of how much is kept on record in your encounters with law enforcement. :)
For me it is simply not worth the risk, I do not have the money for a good legal defense and I work for a public institution, just being accused, not even charged but accused could cost me my job.
So I am risk averse on this topic. :)
My apologies but being a male and staying away from children in public places it is not about being "frightened." It is about avoiding the risk of being charged as a pedophile or questioned by the police as to your interactions with the child. Especially if you are, in my case, middle aged, overweight and single. The women I date know me better, but people are conditioned to assume sexual predator and it is possible they will take their anger/discomfort about loosing track of a child and anything else bugging them out on you. Once you are accused of this, even if you are never charged, it is impossible to entirely escape. I watched this happen to men I respected in the 80's, 90's and the early 2000's. They were helpful and not predators, but that didn't stop the accusations. At least the whole "recovered memory" fad has mostly died out. If I see a child in distress I do not approach, I look for a woman, staff member or call someone. It is not because I am "frightened" it is because I have seen what happens when people jump to conclusions. Once you are tarred with that brush, guilty or not you never escape it. I was nicer and less cautious when I was younger, but I have learned better in the last 20 years.
I e-mailed the Lotus Notes team about the poor spelling, we will see how it takes them to fix it. :)
Stalkers
Threats and harassment from supposedly "moral" and "Christian" neighbors.
Law enforcement or others who assume they get sex or whatever else they want from a woman since she works in porn. (This has related to item 1.)
Trouble with day jobs and employers at other jobs.
Legal problems from law enforcement's assumptions about porn performers.
Some people working in porn, or any business, are stupid or mean and deserve what they get, but many are reasonable enough people who don't need or deserve that much extra shit.
Many, many people get weird about sex and sexuality, and it often comes out in aggressive and unkind ways towards people that are easy targets.
Honestly one or two of the things captured on the A/V recording security I have set up for people on their phones or as part of their house security to deal with harassment and stalkers has made my skin crawl.
I was referring to the U.S. income from taxes vs. expenditures rather than balance of trade, but I agree with you the US trade balance is a serious problem that is going to cause us a lot of pain some day.
I know, the Chinese are not really communist anymore.
And as a nation the U.S. is already in deep, deep red ink from invading Iraq and the ongoing occupation.
But a red scare seems to be the only thing to ever to really jumpstart american space exploration, so I can dream. :)
I have wondered how much trouble it would be to set this up. Once a month a military team hunts down and kills a spammer or group of spammers on Pay-Per-View. I bet people would pay money to see that. Entertainment and social good! What could be better? :)
I went to college the first time for physics, the second time for journalism and am now a technician and an editor. What I learned was having a science background helps, having generalists in a field you can talk to first before asking the specialists questions helps and if you can review the story with your science sources so much the better. You may not get to include as much context as you want, but you can write to minimize, although not eliminate, errors you might make and the incorrect assumptions other people might make. Ideally you have non science and non tech types read a draft and talk it over with them, but that often takes more time than you have.
That said in reality it can be a tough decision with many variables to report criminal activity on a user's computer that you administer. Often your superiors will blame you and not the criminal. Two things I have found helpful in my own experience are knowing the politics around the company and talking to an IT savy lawyer. The lawyer can help determine what laws are broken, if any, and how the company computer use policy is writtten. Knowing the politics around the company can help you guess which way the grief is going to roll down hill, on the person misusing the computer, or on you. Study, plan and organize before you say anything.
As a shortcut, ask yourself, what would the BOFH do?
He said no to the police. Unless you have enough money or friends you always pay when you do that. Especially these days. Remember, most law enforcement know the rest of us are lower life forms than they are. The law does not matter, being right does not matter, nearly as much as money or power. Get used to it, it's going to keep getting worse before, if, it gets better. There are rapidly getting to be enough broad laws out there that everyone is guilty of something. You might just not know you have done anything wrong.
With an FBI employee getting caught surfing ebay from their desk instead of working. They claimed to be looking for stolen property, the excuse caught on, and now it can be an assignment. :)
We give them the vast majority of our IT budgets, we try to keep believeing in them and still they hate us......
"This program was made possible by a grant from the Ultra-Humanite, and viewers like you."
The more laws you have often the more selectively they are enforced.
Having worked crappy, low end, and not crappy, higher end, security it has on occasion been educational and entertaining to watch my employers' biases in action in what we are told to look for or pursue. These jobs were in large metropolitan areas as well, not small out of the way places, with dress codes ranging from 100% polyester to nice suits.
I may be biased to see human stupidity though. Several years ago I had to explain to an assistant dean of our college that the young black woman she had so rudely rushed out of the college's new building the night before was one of the computer techs getting the building ready to open in two weeks. :) To be fair the assistant dean was in general an idiot and clueless about technology, but still.
All laws, especially bad or poorly written, can become weapons in the hands of human bias and stupidity.
But what these people are doing is important, if I had skills they needed I would be happy to work there, risk and all.
1. Can technology like this be modified to screw up cameras and video cameras? American and British police seem to be getting more and more bashful about having their actions in public places recorded. Current methods of seizing or disabling recording equipment are a lot more obvious than an "accidental" flashing of a camera sensor. It seems unlikely from how the article describes this weapon but it may be possible.
2. What happens if you are looking through a viewfinder at the crowd when one of these is fired? The rangefinder idea sounds good for a single target, but seems impractical for the "bazooka" crowd control version. A crowd control version might be a good way to knock out any potential press coverage of the people doing the crowd control.
Walk in door. /.
Get caffeine from fridge.
Check in with my IT and non IT coworkers. (I work in a small shop, about 30 people)
Start dealing with immediate problems if there are any.
Start music in my office.
E-mail, voice mails.
Check automated tools and processes.
( I supervise other people but I am usually the first in the office. Am I a manager?)
Open
Look at to do list, reorganize and start knocking items off.
I like your idea about preventing collusion but have no idea how to implement it.
To me Wikipedia is never to be trusted as an authoritative source on anything, although it can be lots of fun and a great starting place to read up on something before moving to more reliable sources. Not that other sources are always perfect, but they tend to be less prone to error than much of wikipedia.
They will likely research what they write, write well and have it sh*t on by the general wikipedia trolls, or worse, people who think they know what they are writing about.
I was agreeing with you right up to the clueless libeal masses comment. The media does so often get it wrong. But that's ok, I have made some good money of people who talk like you. I have bet them they were wrong about WMD's in Iraq, the neo-con talking points blankly repeated without fact checking or atribution, the length of our troops stay in Iraq etc. Actually I am still collecting on that one as people many of us know and care about personally are still in Iraq.
I did agree with you until the overgeneralized insult though. Have a good week.