BBC:
EBay has been compromised so that people who clicked on some of its links were automatically diverted to a site
Are you fucking kidding me, the BBC 'journalist' is a moron, links take people to other pages, what the fuck did you think they do mr "Leo Kelion Technology desk editor"?
Clearly something is afoul, yes?
If they can get malicious links and viruses, they can hit the web.
If they can't hit the web, and they only get port-25 email, and they can only open the attachments they're sent -- why not just give them a mail client that drops the attachments?
You do realize that Republicans of today aren't the same as the Republicans of the 1860s, right?
I suspect the last republican alive in 1860 died by the mid 1900's, yes.
As a developer I'll just say that "face time" and interacting with coworkers are two of the main impediments to me getting shit done.
That's because you're a curmudgeon.
Obviously the people we work with can be distractions, but there's value in being in proximity with the team you work with at least some of the time even if that time is spent just building a sense of being a team.
I have the ability to WFH about 1 day a week now, and previously could do about 2. But I'm not sure even I'd want to do 5 if it were offered. My wife, who does sales, works out of our home (another reason not to be there, amirite!), but even she treks into the corporate office to get face-to-face with her team and visits clients face-to-face after initial video conferences.
Again with this "blow past tiers" nonsense.
Software on the car or not, a fish-tank timer is rated high enough and can turn your plug on at midnight when your cheaper rate kicks in.
Why would you "blow through" usage limits?
Your numbers are nuts.
If you drive an electric car a thousand miles a month (remember, it has a short leash - if you drive much more, you're depending on public chargers at your destinations to supplement your range), you're still only using 256 kWh, since the Leaf and the BMW both get about 3.9 miles to the kWh. With the minimal charging inefficiencies not withstanding, that means you've got $38.90 in extra power each month for a thousand miles of electric driving at the CA average of 15.2c/kWh. [Aside, with the national average cost of gasoline at about $3.60/gal -- more in CA -- you should be getting about about "100eMPG" in converting cents on the electric meter to cents on the pump.]
Your Volt looks like it has a 16.5kWh battery. It should cost you $2.50 a day (on average) to charge --- especially since anyone with a fish-tank timer on their charging plug can get 11 cents/kWh charging from midnight to 9am.
Of course you CAN pay more, but why? Your corner case with overages and daytime rates are atypical.
If your monthly power bill doesn't have room to some artificial cap for $1.29 a day in electricity, then you might want to consider unplugging your toaster.
Well I thought that was insightful, I see some complete cocksucker modded you down.
What promise? No-one promised me anything.
Technology in it's infancy fails to wipe the floor with technologies that have had literally $Trillions of investment. Not really surprising.
Less is more than more. Less is better than more.
If I want someone with the potential to be brilliant, I'd go for the candidate who, despite NOT immersing themselves in the field for the last 4+ years of their life has just performed as well as the candidate who has dedicated their education to the field.
Even if things weren't precisely equal, I'd be inclined to go with the person who isn't trained yet performed well enough to be considered for the job, since they clearly have a lot more potential to grow and clearly have a desire to learn on their own rather than just because they "had" to in university. That person might have some deficits, but they will very likely be able to remedy them, given their already demonstrated desire to learn on their own.
If I'm just hiring a cog and they need to hit a few boxes on a checklist in order to be slotted in to a role where brilliance would actually be harmfully disruptive, then sure, give me the person who treated university like a vocational training course, I guess.
...that's when the hurricanes and floods hit you.
I hear the Midwest is nice.
...that's when the tornadoes hit you.
I have a feeling the person you are arguing with spends his days
1) eating lead with the word "beef" chiseled on it,
2) drives his car inside the shopping mall and convenience stores to get to the indoor ATMs, and
3) likes to troll handicap people
Since the first action item somehow hasn't killed him yet, that just gives more weight to the rest as an indicator of just how awful of a person it is
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
