Comment Re:What if... (Score 1) 149
That should not happen... it's kind of the point for "what you have" to not be copyable.
That should not happen... it's kind of the point for "what you have" to not be copyable.
That's what Reddit is for, after all.
Reddit is way ahead of you, making 3D sculptures from 2D photos was already on topic four days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/tales...
they often cost more than a used paper book
Hell, for me (using Kobo) they mostly cost more than a NEW paperback, delivered by Amazon!
I recently complained and was told that yeah, the price is aligned on the hardcover, and when the paperback comes out it takes them a lot of time to adjust the ebook price. If they say so... didn't buy the book.
Fretting that banks may have to pay to train software engineers to learn the tongue of their industry instead of getting to pay dirt cheap rates to retirees is very far from tugging at my heart strings.
There are banks and banks. I work at a hundred-year old bank where most of the COBOL programmers are between 30 and 45. The older ones have graduated to team lead, plain management, auditing, cost control, or other (presumably better-paying) posts. There are lots of people recruited out of school to work on COBOL (and Hadoop, and CICS, and Kafka, and OPC/TWS, and NodeJS, and if you only know one in two then you're not cross-platform).
This is good HR. There are people in HR whose job it is to plan out career paths and make sure on one hand that people don't get stuck with only outdated skills, and on the other hand that the bank doesn't get stuck with not enough people competent in a given skillset. If other banks don't have good HR, then I'm sorry for them but it's not my problem.
Yearly pay is not that great, but I have job security, I can go to the beach after work, and if you factor in that I have 56 weekdays off in a year it gets better... and bad pay is probably a consequence of having competent HR too.
It is also for variable random content. Imagine a service that returns a webpage containing the product (of the multiplication) of two numbers, followed by a list of links to ten other random number pairs you could try. It would take a 1kB page to write, but infinite space to archive *all* the results. For effect, imagine the service generates a video to show a kid how to multiply the two numbers, or drive from one place to another, or whatever use people have have now found for the Internet.
Starship Troopers - loved the twisted angle on government.
Starship Troopers... maybe nice in itself as an action/SF movie, but for the twisted angle on government you really have to read the book. I felt the political commentary was totally buffed out in the film.
This ought to backfire.
Getting spammed with inane surveys makes me unhappy.
A random AC said:
It's "rouge". Rogue is what old-fashioned women apply to their faces so they'd look healthier.
Umm, no. You got it backwards, and (for once?) the Slashdot editors do it better than the random contradicting AC.
"Rouge" (French for "red", same Latin origin as "ruby") is the cosmetic, and rogue (from Latin "rogare", "ask"/"beg", same origin as "interrogate") is a excellent word to describe the guy in this story. Just because it's on Slashdot doesn't mean it's *wrong*.
I don't care about correcting AC who will probably never see this, but some poor guy might read that and believe it...
The obvious solution to the rogue admin problem : Use Linux
Flashback to the Slashdot of last century!
A boss that gets up and follows you into the bathroom to make sure you are "doing your job" or makes passive aggressive comments to you during your lunch about how he didn't think you were in that day.... or what about a boss who works 9 hours straight (no lunch, no breaks) at his desk and anticipates you do the same without question, while the rest of the company does 8 with breaks and lunch... and micro manages 1 person in the company, which is you.
Because he doesn't trust you. I'm not saying he's right to act that way, he's wrong, but that's the way some people are. It might get better if you stand up to him. Or you might get fired or hit in the face, YMMV. Ask your colleagues if he was like that in the beginning with them and then eased off.
Only 15%? That should be *good* news for twitter! Unless it's 15% of 319 monthly active users, of course.
(Spoiler: TFA title is 48M bots, which gives 319M users).
Replying to myself... http://ask.metafilter.com/1930... dated 2 1/2 years before Schneier's post.
Schneier misinterpreted XKCD. The words must be chosen absolutely randomly.
(But I still often use Schneier's method of taking initials from a sentence, because that's the only sane way to remember a password when it's limited to eight chars, which is a problem I regularly have to deal with).
Yes. Exactly. I just spent 4 hours the other day making a table that is mixed with dynamic controls and an amalgamation of ASP.NET and jQuery pixel fucking perfect when it came to borders for the control because it had to match the look of the old classic website to 'preserve the user experience.' What if I told you the user isn't going to notice that a button is 2 pixels higher up on this page when viewed in Internet Explorer 9? I could have spent the day doing something that adds value to the product, not fiddling with tiny quirks no user is going to notice anyway.
Don't be so sure...
$user complains that she can't open her email.
$me: we did copy over all your settings and your password hasn't changed. Can you show me?
$user: I used to click there, points to blank area on Desktop where Outlook icon used to be.
$me: try moving your pointer up half an inch and clicking there (pointing to Outlook icon).
$user: uhh OK I guess, I don't think i'll be able to get used to this new system
Were there fewer fools, knaves would starve. - Anonymous
