Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 897
Telemarketing Call Center... has to be right down there on the *worst* jobs...
gus
Comment Hemp !== Cannabis. (Score 2, Insightful) 120
FFS, people, when will it be understood that Hemp is much more than just Cannabis? Honestly, folk... 'concluding' that the car is made of Cannabis when it's described as a 'hemp' car is like concluding a person is a heroine user when they say they took some drugs... (even if it was a headache pill).
gus
Comment No Quicksort? (Score 4, Insightful) 118
Feel like I'm complaining about a poll with a missing option, but, honestly
gus
Comment Ohm's law isn't. (Score 1) 1186
If you didn't know that, then I wonder whether you are as geeky as you think you are.....
Silicon junctions (transistors, diodes, more), batteries, and fluorescent lamp's do not obey 'ohm's law'.... Ohm's law is the observable property of some conductors, it's not a law.
if you got that one wrong, I would hesitate on going further.
gus
Comment Re:Just say no. (Score 1) 555
Uhhhm, yes. I realize that. But, in this case the benefit is not supposed to be for the employee. The 'benefit' is that the data is secure. it is already acknowledged that the process is slow and fragile.
Which is exactly why you just say no. The assumption being that 'work' has better handle on what's right, and if they insist on doing things in a certain manner (for whatever reason - including that it's the best way to do things), then you say 'fine', but to support that then work must provide the resources to make it happen, especially in cases where the data is so sensitive.
While you can 'just say no' in a combative manner, I am not suggesting you do that, only suggesting that you say it in a way that gets the point across.
Letting 'work' apply constraints to your personal computer implies that they want ownership of the process, which in turn implies that they should own the entire process, not just part of it.
Anyway, reversing your logic, if the data is so sensitive, and vulnerable, then by all logic, the hospital should insist on only their equipment being used.... As an analogy, would you want a CIA agent using his personal laptop to do his job?
gus
Comment Just say no. (Score 3, Insightful) 555
If they insist on your home machine being encrypted, then tell them either:
1. They must supply the machine, and it's theirs, and you'll only use it for work.
2. refuse to do any work at home.
gus
After Learning Java Syntax, What Next? 293
Niris writes "I'm currently taking a course called Advanced Java Programming, which is using the text book Absolute Java, 4th edition, by Walter Savitch. As I work at night as a security guard in the middle of nowhere, I've had enough time to read through the entire course part of the book, finish all eleven chapter quizzes, and do all of the assignments within a month, so all that's left is a group assignment that won't be ready until late April. I'm trying to figure out what else to read that's Java related aside from the usual 'This is how to create a tree. This is recursion. This is how to implement an interface and make an anonymous object,' and wanted to see what Slashdotters have to suggest. So far I'm looking at reading Beginning Algorithms, by Simon Harris and James Ross."
Jetman Attempts Intercontinental Flight 140
Last year we ran the story of Yves Rossy and his DIY jetwings. Yves spent $190,000 and countless hours building a set of jet-powered wings which he used to cross the English Channel. Rossy's next goal is to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, from Tangier in Morocco and Tarifa on the southwestern tip of Spain. From the article: "Using a four-cylinder jet pack and carbon fibre wings spanning over 8ft, he will jump out of a plane at 6,500 ft and cruise at 130 mph until he reaches the Spanish coast, when he will parachute to earth." Update 18:57 GMT: mytrip writes: "Yves Rossy took off from Tangiers but five minutes into an expected 15-minute flight he was obliged to ditch into the wind-swept waters."
Comment I read the bloody Decision by the CRTC... (Score 1) 200
... here: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2008/dt2008-17.htm
and, well, blow me down, I'm almost proud to say that it is a damn reasonable decision. Based on what I read (an not what people are suggesting it means), all it really says is that....
T1 lines will no longer be 'controlled' services in 5 years time.... (i.e. the govt will no longer regulate T1 access).... but, on the up side....
for the forseeable future, ADSL service will be regulated, the price will continue to be 'fixed' using the same price structures as they ghave been for years (govt. regulated cost + 15%)... and competition will continue to have access to co-locate to continue servicing things...
further, the decision stipulates that the monopolies can not mandate the type of service on the local loop (i.e. Bell has n control over what types of service are operated on the 'last mile'....).
In essence, I can't see any degrading of the system by this decision.
I will NOT sign the petition, and, in fact, after reading the deciison, I am motivated to write in PRAISE of the CRTC.
gus
Dad Builds 700 Pound Cannon for Son's Birthday 410
Hugh Pickens writes "The Charleston Daily Mail reports that machinist Mike Daugherty built his son a working cannon for his birthday — not a model — a real working cannon. 'It looks like something right out of the battle at Gettysburg,' says Daugherty. The 700 pound cast iron and steel howitzer, designed to use comparatively small explosive charges to propel projectiles at relatively high trajectories with a steep angle of descent, has a 4-inch gun barrel that is 36 inches long mounted on a wooden gun carriage with two 36- inch diameter wheels and took Daugherty about two weeks to build at a cost of about $6,000. 'I've always been interested in the Civil War and cannons, so I thought it would be a good gift,' says Daugherty's 11-year old son Logan. Daugherty said he is not worried about the federal government coming to get his son's cannon because he spoke to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and found it is legal to own such a cannon because it does not use a firing pin and is muzzle loaded so the government does not consider the weapon a threat. Two days after the family celebrated Logan's 11th birthday, father and son offered a field demonstration of the new cannon on top of a grassy hill overlooking Fairmont, West Virginia and on the third try, the blank inside the barrel went boom and a cannon was born. For a followup they popped a golf ball into the gun barrel, lit the fuse, and watched the golf ball split the sky and land about 600 yards away. 'Any rebels charging up this hill would be in trouble with a cannon like this at the top,' Logan says."
Man Accuses Cat of Downloading Child Porn 174
bruce_the_loon writes "They have blamed viruses. They have blamed neighbors. They have accused police of planting it. In rare cases, they have admitted downloading it. This is the first time someone has accused a cat of downloading child porn onto their computer. This seems like a defense almost too stupid to be made up."
Comment Re:other... (Score 1) 460
ditto
Comment Re:Cowboyneal option (Score 1) 310
9. Improbability drive!
Comment Re:A Briton says.. (Score 3, Funny) 397
Uhm... the Queen is the head of state in Canada... so, not much of a break from the kingdom, is it... !
Star Wars On 3.5 Floppy 1
I'm going to build a washing machine that plays, "You Shook Me All Night Long."
