Chuck Milam - Slashdot User

Comment Make it work-related--if only tangentially... (Score 2, Informative) 319

by Chuck Milam on Friday January 18, 2008 @05:52PM (#22101174) Attached to: Down Time At Work — What Do You Do?

I find I rarely run completely out of work-related tasks, but I can understand sometimes needing to unplug from strictly-related work to reset the brain. When I need some "brain reset" time, I try to read up on something that at least tangentially relates to work, for example, I've been meaning to learn more about Ruby on Rails and some other newer (at least to this old guy) technologies.

I feel the more I learn and the more current I stay, the more valuable I am to my employer (and myself/future employers). Plus, if anyone were to ask, I can honestly say "I'm researching some possible implementations of the new [insert project name] system."

I should point out that this kind of pure guilt-free downtime is rare. You can always be updating that documentation *groan* or working on that nagging system with the logfile that always fills up the disk that you've been meaning to fix for months now...

Submission + - MySpace Gets False Positive In Sex Offender Search

Submitted by

gbulmash

on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @11:27PM

gbulmash writes: "In its eagerness to clear sex offenders off its site and publish their identities, MySpace identified an innocent woman as a sex offender. She shares a name and birth month with a sex offender who lives in a neighboring state and that was apparently enough to get MySpace to wrongly brand her and completely ignore her protests."

Submission + - Zero Tolerance Firing

Submitted by

TheSHAD0W

on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @09:45PM

TheSHAD0W writes: "A friend of mine was working as a consultant for a power company in Michigan. Awakened early this morning on an emergency call, unable to log on remotely to fix their emergency response software, he asked whether he needed to "smack one of those guys in the head at network security". He was fired for that remark."

Submission + - CSS Turns 10 Years Old

Submitted by on Tuesday December 19, 2006 @12:27PM

An anonymous reader writes: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) celebrate their tenth anniversary this week. W3C put together the CSS10 site in recognition of this milestone with a Hall of Fame, essays from the past decade, a gallery and more.

Submission + - MySpace users have stronger passwords than corp...

Submitted by

Ant

on Thursday December 14, 2006 @01:27PM

Ant writes: "This Wired News column reports Bruce Schneier's analysis the data from a successful phishing attack on MySpace and compares the captured user-passwords to an earlier data-set from a corporation. He concludes that MySpace users are better at coming up with good passwords than corporate drones. The article is a great state-of-the-password address, with lots of fun nuggets like "We used to quip that 'password' is the most common password. Now it's 'password1.' Who said users haven't learned anything about security?" ... Seen on Boing Boing."

Submission + - 10 Tech Concepts You Need to Know for 2007

Submitted by mattnyc99 on Thursday December 14, 2006 @01:26PM

mattnyc99 writes: Popular Mechanics has a new list of wide-ranging technology terms it claims will be big in '07. From PRAM to BAN and SmartPills to data clouds, it's a pretty nice summary of upcoming and in-the-works trends across the board (with a podcast embedded). But what's missing? How reliable is the magazine's short-term impact meter for each must-learn term? How do their predictions from a year ago stack up now?

Comment WTF? (Score 1, Troll) 14

by moopster on Tuesday October 30, 2001 @09:06PM (#2500627) Attached to: Miniature Humanoid Robot based on 19th Century Toy

Posted by timothy on Monday October 29, @08:39PM

Why am I able to make the second post on this story? It is now Tue Oct 30 19:06:10 CST 2001

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