ChTom - Slashdot User

Comment Get a job (Score 1) 583

by ChTom on Monday June 01, 2015 @10:59PM (#49819661) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Your First "Real" Job?

Get a job before you graduate, any job. The workplace is not the uni.

Comment Re: The inversion is complete. (Score 1) 100

by ChTom on Sunday April 12, 2015 @09:49PM (#49460341) Attached to: Microsoft: Feds Are 'Rewriting' the Law To Obtain Emails Overseas

Advice from one of my mentors, treat email like a postcard, assume everybody along the delivery route can read it, if they choose to do so.

Comment Re: Pot vs. Kettle (Score 1) 100

by ChTom on Sunday April 12, 2015 @09:46PM (#49460331) Attached to: Microsoft: Feds Are 'Rewriting' the Law To Obtain Emails Overseas

Quite a few of us graybeards here son.

Comment Re:One-button cell phone (Score 1) 327

by ChTom on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @10:48PM (#49035259) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Panic Button a Very Young Child Can Use

http://medicalalarmsystems.com/automatic-fall-detectors-sensors.html

Comment I Pay For This One (Score 1) 1

by ChTom on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @10:37PM (#49035207) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Panic button a toddler can use

http://medicalalarmsystems.com/automatic-fall-detectors-sensors.html
I Hope I'm posting the correct company here.
My wife handles this.
Father-in-law loves it.
Friendly operators, if he falls, or the mobile phone thinks he fell, an operator speaks via "speaker phone" to help.
False positives happen a lot, all good.
They will call you if necessary, will call EMS if needed.
Cheap, $35 a month or so, won't strain the budget.
Cancel anytime. (We inadvertently stopped paying the bill, no problem, NOTHING like some mobile carriers that won't let you cancel....)

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Panic button a toddler can use 1

Submitted by Zotonian on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @11:18AM

Zotonian writes: My wife is epileptic. Her seizures have been well controlled by medication until recently. My concern is that we have a toddler and infant at home. I've set up cameras so I can monitor the house, but I'm looking for a solution that my 2 year old daughter can hit a button to tell me to look at them if necessary. Most of the options I'm finding off the shelf notify first responders and I'm concerned of the number of false positives a toddler might initiate. Other solutions like cellphones or wearables for kids are too overloaded with unnecessary options like GPS, phone, games, etc. I'd rather have a simple "push button" solution I can wire into my router that would send me a text or chat message that alerts me to check the cameras. Then if there is an actually emergency I can take the steps from there. I'm looking for cheap and simple. Any suggestions from the Slashdot community?

Comment Re:Is 40 the "new old"? (Score 2) 379

by ChTom on Thursday March 20, 2014 @10:00AM (#46533661) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Will Older Programmers Always Have a Harder Time Getting a Job?

Right there with you, age ... not getting rich, still having fun with software & hardware, hoping I'll still be engineering and tinkering 20 years from now!
In my experience, from public sector to private startups, if you have the chops to do the job and are able to articulate your skills, I'll hire you.

- tom e.

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