Comment Re:From the Department of Redundancy Department (Score 2) 378
What? He isn't referring to Automated Asynchronous Transfer Mode Machines?
Why was Malaysia Airlines "worthy" of the attack? At a guess, I'd say because they were an easy target. It's unlikely that MAS was specifically targeted. They probably poked at every company big enough to have a recognizable name, and MAS was just the first to be vulnerable.
Being a police officer is not meant to be about being a revenue machines on the clock but a peace officer assisting the public in upholding the law and providing a first response emergency service.
Aww, that's so cute. Look everyone, someone who's not completely jaded and cynical yet!
Yes, if police wanted to prevent minor traffic infractions that's exactly what they'd do. However, they typically use unmarked cars or hide their marked cars behind corners, trees, or other obstructions so they can't be seen by oncoming traffic. Then they wait for someone to come zipping by. Cha-ching!
Slightly less cynically, the practice of hiding and pouncing should actually reduce speeders by inducing a sense of doubt. Potential hiding places are everywhere, you'd better drive the limit because you never know when there's a cop back there. In theory it multiplies the effect of a sparse police force. In practice it doesn't work that way because the odds of getting pulled over are still pretty darned low.
A couple of "large" trackball vendors:
BigTrack - http://www.bigtrack.co.uk/
Kensington - http://www.kensington.com/
FWIW, I love my Kensington Expert Mouse. Despite the name it's actually a roughly billiard-ball sized trackball with four buttons and a scroll ring. Two caveats:
I got it because I was developing RSI from use of a regular mouse with my right hand. I tried switching to my left, but had trouble training myself to use almost-but-not-quite the same mouse motions. The trackball has a completely different motion from the mouse, so I was able to easily train my left hand to use it. Now I use the left-handed trackball at work and the right-handed mouse at home and haven't had any more RSI issues. (Yeah, using the trackball right-handed probably would have had the same effect, since the motion is different. But at the time my right arm really hurt and it was more comfortable just to give it a rest and train my left to do it.)
Nah, just messin' with you. B5 all the way. No contest.
To install python libraries like scipy, matplotlib, etc. Apparently that is such a pain in MacOS, and there are so many half-assed distributions methods that you can really botch your system.
Huh? You do sudo easy_install scipy just like on any other Unix-y OS.
At my work we have an equal number of men's and women's restrooms, and those restrooms are sized to allow the same number of people (so if the men's room has 2 stalls and 2 urinals, the women's room has 4 stalls). This is despite the fact that we have 4x as many men as women working in our facility (it's not a hiring issue, we just don't get the applicants).
We had a similar issue. Way more men than women here, but equal toilet facilities: two four-person restrooms (one for each gender) on both of the floors in the office. Solution? Convert the 1st floor ladies' room into a men's room. Problem solved, right? Except that when interviewing, nothing tells a female applicant "You're not wanted here" like making her go down to the basement to piss.
Thankfully we've come to our corporate senses and restored the upstairs ladies' room.
The end result is that on average men can expect to wait 15-20 minutes before getting an open stall to use, while the women generally will not even see another person in the restroom unless they came in together.
Sounds like you just need more toilets, period. Even in the worst case here I've hardly ever been unable to find an open men's room stall in time of need. Yeah, sometimes I have to go to the one on other floor, but that's life.
Before: "Hey, just got back from working the job fair. Here are 20 resumes, one of which is from a woman!"
After: "Hey, just got back from working the job fair. Here are 5 resumes, one of which is from a woman! Diversity!"
When I go to a job fair, I bring back resumes from all the qualified applicants. The only way I could meet a 20% quota would be to discard enough male candidates to make the ratio fit.
Hmm... You know, it's just a short step from there to a full-blown H1B conspiracy fantasy... "Last year we got 20 resumes from the job fair. This year we only got 5!" "Damn, you just can't find enough STEM workers these days. Fire up the lobbyists and make Washington know we need more cheap-- er, I mean foreign workers!"
Not unlike this gentleman...
"Green has lived without television since 1989, when his then-girlfriend moved out and took her set with her. "
I confused medium.com with the other site that is often the target of
/. article links. Dammit now I am stuck, I can't remember it, it has a simple name as well, it is one with "scientific" topics but really crap content in a fancy css scrolling article...
Sounds like a perfect description of medium.com to me...
My sweet spot is 4-6 people in an office. A real office, with walls and a door. I've been in a cube sea, I've been in a private office, I've been in shared cubicles. For what I do and how I do it, the small shared office is the most comfortable. (Your mileage may vary, of course. It depends on work habits and the number of people you regularly collaborate with.)
It's kind of funny though, that we'll often have a discussion going on IRC when we're all in the same room and could, you know... just talk to each other.
Neutrinos have bad breadth.
