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Wha? I have never heard of anyone doing building security like this before.
Does everyone have a badge, or just interns? Then does everyone follow this system? I don't understand how anyone can get inside the building *if they intentionally left their badge inside*, unless the badges are stored in an unsecured location...

My work does use the badge system to generate the "who is in the building" list in cases of emergency, and YES it requires that badging In and badging Out are distinct. We also have no tailgating problem because all doors are either revolving door turnstiles or staffed by security (we have quite few doors allowed).

"In more than three decades years"

Not even trying

A 12-30% pay cut... exactly who do you think would accept that?

What you mean is: the best employees will see the writing on the wall and quit - the only employees left will be the unqualified ones who feel like they cannot get another job

Have you ever explored the Random Article button? It seems that Wikipedia is composed 5% of stub articles on UK rail stations, football clubs, and football players

I can answer this one quite easily.
Both of the pay the bills by being college professors. I have had several classes with "Mike Bonannno" here at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy NY. "Andy Bichlbaum" is a lecturer at Parsons in NYC and formerly worked for Maxis

So, neither of the Yes Men are really planning to get rich from this.

I'm an IT student and a consultant at the computer help desk at a well-known Institute in Troy, NY. We have a program where incoming students are offered a package including a Windows laptop, but we also explicitly support Mac OS X and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The Help Desk will gladly give you an install image of Windows XP, Vista, or 7, but we also have discs for the major Linux distributions on hand.

Our wireless network is an 802.1x PEAP. Unfortunately, it doesn't self-identify properly so you must tell Mac OS X, Windows XP, and some Linuxes that it is a PEAP. There is an Android app to facilitate using our network. Out VPN is Cisco AnyConnect which is (surprisingly) cross-platform and exceptionally easy to set up.

Public computers run Windows, but there are a few Sun workstations running Solaris. Students have SSH access to a variety of public RHEL, AIX, and SGI machines. The CS department additionally provides access to some more FreeBSD, IRIX, and Solaris servers. By the time you are in Data Structures (Computer Science 2), everything must compile in GCC 4.current. People still using MS Visual Studio are quietly ridiculed.

Perhaps we are an exception from the normal experiences...

This is an issue, but it can be mostly resolved with versioning filesystems like Files-11 or maybe even ZFS snapshots. I can't even tell you the number of times I've made changes to a document then wish afterwards I still had the original version...

He certainly has violated their policy! Read a little closer and you will see that fabrication is prohibited. It was obviously a violation of Academic Honesty to fabricate that motion-detector.

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I think all statisticians should have to learn writing communications skills.
Zed sure embarrasses himself by writing such an atrocious piece of garbage.

Maybe people would listen to Zed if he didn't:
a.) Depend on vulgar language to emphasize an argument (and subsequently)
b.) Prove himself as a huge douchbag.

Not at all. I am an IT student at RPI and they specifically prohibit hiring current students for the DotCIO. Students work in the software and hardware helpdesks, but never on the network.

This makes sense because those networks include sensitive data, security networks, and building access authentication. It seems like a good way to cut costs, but it is a potential security risk.

Annual pass? I'm pretty sure no cinemas in my area (in the USA) will do that... where are you?

Otherwise, paying a flat rate for a phone you never use to save a good bit on cinema tickets sounds like an excellent idea.

docx? I don't think so. IANAL, but a friend who IAL suggests that many courts in Pennsylvania at least require filings to be made in PDF.
This really makes sense because PDF is an open format and it's harder to modify after receipt than a Word file.

Is anyone else thinking "selection bias"?

How can Twitter users be a representative sample of the public as a whole? And I don't even want to think about issues with geographical context...