Which is why you always keep a copy of the original. Not that it will save you, but should it hit the fan, you can at least point to that and say "That's what I said we could do, and they ignored it." You'll probably still get fired, but you have the satisfaction of being right.

OTOH, it does mean I can leave at any time, too.

Technically, that is true. However, the two are not equivalent. Leaving a job (for whatever reason) can be seen as disloyalty, based on the context. If you start at a job, and figure out two weeks/months in that the job is not as represented and in fact is much worse than you thought, and quit, you're a "job hopper", and the consequences are yours instead of your employer's. (Also, then you have to explain why you left the previous job so quickly if you do manage to get an interview. There really isn't a great answer to that question; you can either make up some bullshit about the job being eliminated unexpectedly, or you can REALLY sink your chances by being honest about it. They hate honesty.) Plus, no unemployment assistance or health insurance for you, should you do that. (Yes, you can make the COBRA payments if you are able; however, that would be another $1000 a month I would have to come up with, in addition to having no job.)

Also, it is highly recommended that you have another job in your back pocket when you resign from one. Your employer has no such concern; they'll just find some fresh-faced college graduate idiot that will do your job and another two, for half your salary.

Programmers fear incompetence because they see it everywhere, even where it is not.

No, they see it everywhere, because it IS everywhere. Nobody cares about competence anymore, they want to know how much something costs. Not its value, but its price.

Complete failure over a trivial error, because computers don't have common sense to ask, "are you sure you meant to do that?", or, "what does this mean?".

They can be programmed to do so for specific input. Then the CEO calls you and tells you to remove it because that one extra click on the app is ruining his sex life, or something.

I love that somebody both figured this out AND got first post.

I'd be shocked if there isn't clear prior art for the patent as written.

Slightly different, but I think dating even back to the PowerBook days, many Apple laptops have a combined headphone jack (3.5mm) / toslink port. Plug in headphones, they work fine. Plug in an optical audio cable, it works fine.

Yesterday I got a scam call for a free resort stay if I was over the age of 28 and would provide them my credit card number.

While this particular scam is nothing particularly new, what was surprising is that the call appeared to originate from my area code. When I called the number back it went to a woman's voicemail. I'm guessing the entire thing was spoofed and she's an unknowing accomplice to this scam. Hell, they could be choosing numbers entirely at random.

It sure is. You have no idea.

It is amazing that you have to go through a background check to buy a gun. A mistake there can seriously screw up the lives of dozens of people.

In order to vote, you do not even have to show ID in many places. A mistake there can seriously screw up the lives of over 300 million people. Anybody who votes without educating themselves on the issues should hang their head in shame.

I have the legal right to ask for the video from a video camera that is owned and operated by the public sector, I have no legal right to do so from someone with Google glass.

Gee. Nobody asked me.

I thought that Bush was an ass for pushing the Patriot Act, and I think that Obama is even more of an ass for, instead of stopping it, pushing it well beyond its intended purpose.

Yes, there are still some people who wholeheartedly believe in the Consitution and, if given the choice between a 0.0001% chance of a violent death or a 100% chance of an opressive govenment, knows which one is better.

Part of the problem is the stupid two-party system. The GOP seems to be for the 2nd amendment only, while the Obama adminstration has shown that the only amendment that they like is the 5th (like when their own people use it to protect themselves). If you want politicians that uphold the ENTIRE Constitution, including ALL amendments, you are pretty much screwed these days.

On the other hand, we have the solution to our energy problem. Just hook a generator up to James Madison. I figure that he must be doing about 2000 RPM in his grave right about now.

The company that I work for is starting down this same path, so I am getting laid off in a few day. It is so incredibly short-sighted to be focused on the next quarter instead of the quarter that is five or ten years away.

I have also noticed that every company wants to have 95th percentile engineers, but they all want to pay 50th percentile salaries. Does anybody else see the logical contradiction there?

By the way: anybody need an ASIC or FPGA designer (RTL or physical design) in the Colorado Springs area?

This.

I use it on my LinkedIn profile so that recruiters don't learn my real number but can still get in touch with me easily.

I have Verizon (I have had T-mobile and various rebranded AT&Ts over the years as well) and have found the Big Red to be the best overall for a few reasons:

- Coverage
- Data sharing
- Cost

I think my wife and I pay about $150 for our two lines which include unlimited voice and text with 4GB of data shared between us and our chosen devices.

AT&T was less money (about $130/month) however we had 450 anytime minutes/1000 night/weekend with rollover and no SMS plan. Being that my wife is using around 1000 SMSs a month, the cost savings from that alone is worth it.

Now, Verizon's 3G is noticeably slower than AT&T and while that doesn't matter much in the metro area where our primary residence is located as there is LTE, at our lake home (which has LTE about 500 feet outside of the cabin) we are stuck w/pokey 3G service that is comparable to the 1300/700 DSL service we get there.

For me I dropped more calls in dead zones with both T-mobile and AT&T than I have noticed w/VZW but the single biggest advantage Verizon has over any other carriers is coverage. I should NEVER, EVER, EVER have No Service show up along major interstates yet with both T-mobile and AT&T I did. I have never been w/o VZW service in the last year I've had it.

To me the $150/month is well worth it. YMMV.

The law might not be able to stop people from spying, but a simple post-it-note or a piece of electrical tape sure would.

Although this common-sense advice will only help people tech-savvy enough to know to do this.

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