We should hold responsible this prosecutor for every criminal he didn't successfully convict or even bother to charge for lack of evidence - especially any who went on to later kill someone.

Microsoft came up with this? You're one of those comedian ACs.

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Yeah, that would be pretty slick, and DC was the first thing I thought of. The DC aviation headset I have has two plugs - one for the headphone (1/4" stereo) and one smaller for the mic - they can't be mixed up. You can certainly find or fashion a connector to merge these two functions into one 1/8" plug, for say an iPhone.

The biggest problem I can foresee is power. If you're using some type of wireless, it will take a bit of juice to drive a headset of this size. I can see it wearing out something like an iPhone pretty quickly. If you want to hardline it, I don't see why you couldn't disassemble a POTS handset and wire in a female receptacle for something like the DC headset plugs. I would talk to someone smarter than me about basic electrical circuits to see how you could wire up a volume/gain control to the handset, even though the headset itself has independent volume controls.

http://www.davidclark.com/

yep. this is the first thing I thought of. I understand why they want to do it (would be nice if the protocol were extended to allow attaching a URL, even if it had to go through them), but they're already running into capacity issues, what seems like fairly often.

"TrisexualPuppy"? @Kettle tweeted that you screamed you're black! at him and now won't reply to his DMs.

I'm abusive? No. I'm a realist. Am I a little over the top? Maybe.

You can try to can me. The second you tried to defend the insolence of those techs, I would quit or find a way to get you fired, because you suck as a supervisor and have just demonstrated you're part of the problem. In this situation, as a doctor, the techs are not my peers. They are there to do a specific job, and the "kiss my ass or I'm not doing any work" insubordination is completely, totally unacceptable in the real world where things have to get done or people die. This type of foot stomping and shin kicking "I want a cookie!" is how unions treat companies (and indirectly that company's customers) in the US, and then they cry like little princess bitches when the jobs go overseas. It ain't rocket science.

My boss doesn't write "please" on the trouble tickets he assigns me. He rightfully expects me to do the work, and I rightfully expect to get paid for doing the job. My clients don't have to write "please" on every changeorder just for me to do the most basic tasks of my job. The postmaster doesn't have to say "please deliver your route" or the city manager beg the [non-union] employees "please go pick up the trash" It is completely upside down ridiculous for a workorder form to have to include a hand-written "pretty please, do the job we're paying you for so the patient doesn't die"

That said - if I was asking someone from the helpdesk to go grab me a cup of coffee because I'd been on the phone w/ their customer for 2 hours, I would say 'please' - because it is a request for them to do a task not normally assigned. If I filled out a normal form instructing them on a process that needed to be completed for a customer, I sure as hell don't need to write "pretty please".

Supposing that I came back from a couple of days off to find out that an overnight order to a really important client was thrown in the corner (and not shipped) because I didn't write "please" on the shipping docs, you can bet I'd go ballistic. You really think the customer is going to care more about a) why they didn't get the critical widget or b) that the missing critical widget just cost them a $2 million contract - putting them out of business, and all of their employees out of a job? They're going to (rightfully) chew my ass, maybe sue my company, and if they manage to somehow survive, find a new widget supplier. That is how the real world works.

Would it kill you to do your fucking job without having to be coddled, you whiny little bitch?

No? Clean out your desk, because I'll find someone else who will. It doesn't mean the doctors treat the staff like shit, but a minimum of doing the tasks you were hired to do is absolutely expected, demanded in exchange for your paycheck. What next? Should the doctor have slip a $5 note with the request? Bullshit. Do. your. fucking. job.

It isn't just about paying attention to the briefing. It *is* about safety. The most dangerous part of any flight is taxi, takeoff, and landing. The flight attendants, despite popular conception, are there first and primarily for your safety, not to serve you a drink. The don't want your iPod jammed in your ears so that that if something goes wrong, you can actually hear and follow the instructions. Being stuffed into a small metal tube with thousands of pounds of jet fuel all around you isn't just about you - it is also about you moving your ass so you're not preventing other people from also exiting in a timely and orderly fashion.

The fact that something is wrong or about to go very wrong isn't always as obvious as a big ball of flames - and may not be at all evident to the un-trained passenger - which is why your two ears need to be available during these phases of flight.

The airline in the story is .au. I will grant you, the FAA regs do lag a little bit. Kindles, like anything else w/ an on/off switch, are not permitted under FL010 (10,000 feet).

That isn't entirely true. Many of the obdii systems are now linked with the vehicle CAN bus, meaning you can screw things up royally if you do it wrong. We were experimenting on a Ford Escape a couple of months ago, trying to determine what commands were sent for things like seatbelt or ABS event. We built an OBDII connector, but a minor short in our harness caused the entire instrument cluster, radio, etc to wig out. There was no permanent damage, but it demonstrated that simply plugging something into the OBDII port could have ill effects on the vehicle outside of just reading trouble codes.

I work for a company that makes equipment to control aspects of and interface with existing vehicle systems, primarily emergency and commercial vehicles (firetrucks, ambulances, buses and the like). Even we have a hell of a time getting straight answers out of the manufacturers (Ford, etc) when we ask about proprietary network messages (ie seatbelt latched) - regardless of the fact that we're not competing with them to build vehicles.

Oh how I wish it were that easy. The president of the company comes to you and says "30% of our web sales come from IE6 users. Make the site work with IE6 or you and your team can find another job, because we won't be able to pay you anymore."

That said, I know the pain of fighting with all the different versions of IE. Generally speaking, things look relatively close in Safari, Firefox, and Opera. Often, not so in IE. Doesn't matter which version. 6 is certainly the worst though. Outside of the nonsense of ActiveX apps causing loads of lock-in headaches, there are three major areas I've found where IE gets really stupid:

• not following CSS rules, especially when it comes to layout/element positioning
• not supporting common features, like PNG transparency. There is a workaround for that in IE6, but when I tried a similar work-around for rounded borders, I couldn't make IE7 stop crashing.
• Javascript. Fortunately, js libraries like prototype.js have helpfully done the heavy lifting of working through the many javascript compatibility issues.

I was a grader as well, "TA" seems easier to write b/c no one knows wth a "grader" is, and I tried to spend at least as much time helping the students who wanted it as I did grading. :) It was probably '97 or so? I can't remember exactly. It was CIS221/Resolve C++, before they started calling it CSE.

I only did it for one quarter because apparently there was some kind of huge issue when HR realized I had another job on campus at the same time. oops?

One of my cheaters actually had the balls to accuse me of being sexist and preferring the girls. Except, he was such a moron because there were only two girls in my class. One of the girls had to take a W because she kept turning in her compile errors instead of any source code - which I could have graded. I felt bad, but there wasn't much I could do.

You're right, when you're only talking about 3 lines of code, things are going to look very similar, maybe even exactly the same. But once you get beyond that, you expect some differences to start showing up.

When I was a TA for a 200-series CS class at Ohio State, I caught cheaters without any sophisticated tools more than common sense. Two examples:

• On a test, getting the same wrong answers, nearly exactly down to misspellings - from two people who were sitting next to each other.
• A lab submitted by a student that a) seemed to go outside the scope of the assignment b) had no source code was (which was part of the grade) c) showed a level of sophistication unexpected for this particular student. I showed the student's program to another TA who recognized it as the assignment she gave the previous quarter.

There were other examples, but those are the two I can think of easily.

I've found that a good number of sites use bad regex filters and bitch when I use '+', so I ended up going to a catch-all@x.mydomain.com. So far, I've rarely gotten an email to any of the addresses I've used that wasn't from the place I intended that address to be used.

I might look into that. My CU has a similar deposit service, but no iPhone app, and it it is a 9 step process including snail mailing in the check w/ a written confirmation # after you submit the image. And there was some weird rule about having to put the check in the mail within 24 hours or something. Completely asinine. I can drive to an ATM and deposit the check there in 3 steps. I told them as much.