orbitingpluto

I was at a garage sale and I was perusing a bunch of Wrox books. The seller offered me a ridiculous price and then I noticed he was on the cover of one of them.

I asked him about it and I think he'd rather have the latter benefits than the minuscule compensation:

"Piracy is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it means you receive no compensation for the benefit readers get from the work you put in. On the other hand, pirated books act as implicit marketing, expanding awareness of you and your book(s)."

So I bought the books, but asked if he had another copy of his own book. He said that he did not, because that he guesses he should keep a copy as, after all, he was the author. That's a lot of trauma for him to say something like that.

That doesn't mean it's not illegal.

For banks that don't encrypt everything, changing an advertised rate from another would probably run afoul of all sorts of illegal.

Or a Dell Precision 'mobile workstation'

I was a tad disappointed that the keyboard wasn't functional.

You didn't. I don't think you did. It was just a reverse moving goalposts argument to suggest that both propositions were wrong.

But "if men are 3x as likely to interrupt women" is literally an example of sexism... the likelihood of interrupting a woman over interrupting a man.

Sexism IS a biological tendency. There is no rational basis for it when scientists are contributing to something as esoteric as string theory. This story overwhelmingly demonstrates how absurd sexism can get.

In any case it is perfectly acceptable to shame someone when they are being rude and excluding someone one from contributing. Especially when that someone is an expert.

The reason why I think she did not take any affront is because she already understands the subject matter. She's motivated not only in understanding herself, but in determining and helping others to comprehend. She can't actually engage in a proper discussion until she realizes that her counterpart also understands the material. When things get complicated, you have to continually establish a common basis for discussion which requires fostering patience.

I was countering one strawman argument with another. Please realize that the bar to meet here isn't violence, it's professional and courtesy.

If men are 3x as likely to engage in violent behaviour, is it sexism or simply a biological tendency? And if it is a biological tendency, is it not sexist to shame men for their more assertive tendencies?

/sarcasm

I applied at a company that I assumed had at least 40+ people (assuming normal turnover) because of the frequency of job postings. Turned out they had 4 employees. And they wanted me to create a full application before I was given a second interview. Nah.

Your comment reminded me of a old Outer Limits episode, "Think Like A Dinosaur" where the teleportation "equation had to be balanced." After a delayed confirmation, the technician had to kill the original woman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Like_a_Dinosaur_(The_Out...

Given BBC's coverage as of late, I assume BBC will contact your boss if you make a pro-Corbyn statement.

This story reminded me of Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen trying to get an anti-Trumper fired from her position at a bank by outing her to her boss. (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/15/15640534/r...)

This should tell you everything you need to know:

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/788489976266780672

"The U.S. Coast Guard has estimated that human error accounts for up to 96 percent of all marine casualties."

But if we somehow manage to account for 90% of all eventualities when programming, how are we going to be safer?

So if someone just happens to distribute the source code for Hancom Office before this is resolved in the courts, would he or she be in the free and clear?

"And route all supply runs to alternative locations for the next two days. Order cake to be delivered to supply closet in 47 hours."

I'd rather see an assortment of different products in schools. Web functionality is pretty much the only thing that has to be common for all.

Teachers should be taught the principles of connecting to Wi-Fi, just like the students. How to figure things out on your own is more or less the whole point of computers in schools. Maybe I just like the directed chaos of Montessori.

$13.60 Kindle. That's a lot of variation.

Not entirely true. I've seen issues with Google's G Suite / Google Apps for Work and Google+. Things like your co-workers avatar being displayed instead of your own.

Microsoft Mouse (software release 9.00) from 1993 was a coveted driver back in it's day. If I remember correctly I think it only took 2K of conventional memory and the rest shunted into upper memory. After discovering that on a BBS I rarely needed an alternative config.sys/autoexec.bat.

Just an offshoot thought, but some random art major writing one of these guides giving a bird's eye overview of the entire process is something most businesses should be able to do themselves. But they don't.

Didn't it change the web page on your computer browser after you successfully added it into Google Authenticator?

I suppose you could always take a photo of the QR code and then rescan that. Text seems simpler.

edit: Anyone else remember this behavior? Old version? Browser specific?

The HyperFIDO Mini (U2F Security Key) is the cheapest and smallest key I've found so far for $10. (Amazon)

The Yubico are probably the best key chain candidate. No one wants to trust their key to a weak nylon thread.

You can also set up a Google account to use more than one U2F key.

As for Google 2FA, I think Google caused a lot of confusion by how they set up the Google Authenticator app. Always opt for the text generator codes instead of a barcode. You can then use the code to use on a second Google Authenticator app on another device. Google at one time stated that you could only set up 2FA on a single device, which makes most users leary as one could lose his or her phone.

The new Rickrolling. "OK Google. Sell all Burger King stock."

What about COPPA?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pr...

I haven't seen any mention of COPPA here. I would think that selling a child's internet habits would constitute a violation .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pr...

I've said this before, but the last time Skype worked reliably for me was on the Nokia n800, circa 2008. I had a subscription for several years 2012-2015ish and didn't have an acceptable quality call once.

To get a members' discount at a grocer, I once signed up as Mickey Mouse and put my address as Disneyland.

"Thank you for shopping with <store>, Mister Mouse."

Hey, it's all part of the "sharing economy".

Driver satisfaction will improve once it's composed entirely of autonomous vehicles.

As for the real drivers, who are paid less than taxi drivers, I'm wondering how that put them into the red when they pay less than taxi companies and skirt regulations. They must have interesting books.

This.

The UI in Windows 10 is inconsistent and ever changing. Do you have to do something in the flat design portion or in the older Win7 style? It's akin to having to attempt to plug a USB2.0 cable into your computer three times.

I'm so sick of the inconsistency of the GUI that I just pop open PowerShell and gwmi things I want to manipulate.

One example is networking. I have a Windows 8 based tablet that I upgraded to 10. The networking is very iffy when rebooting and I often have to disable it and then re-enable the device in "Network and Sharing Center-->Change Adapter Settings". Trying to do this in the flat design way never works. Now what if I want to manage the list of WiFi networks or prioritize them? There use to be a link in the Network and Sharing Center in the bottom left. Once upon a time you could also click on the icon on your current active network which would then give you an option to manage.) That doesn't work for me anymore. I now have to do that in the flat design "Settings".

I also had to go into the registry to get a full pop-up keyboard. The option to enable it was just greyed out. And upgrading to the Anniversary edition on this 32GB tablet required a full reinstall and very carefully timed insertions/removals of a USB hub. Upgrading to Win10 from Win8 actually shortened the OS support lifetime for many of the 32GB tablets. Continued Win10 support requires updating of Win10...

Combine that with the Metro apps that I've paid money for just disappearing for good from my library, and I wonder why anyone puts up with this?

It was actually easier to do the 32 bit Linux UEFI workaround than reinstalling the Win10 Anniversary update.

Poor Gustave Whitehead. Overlooked yet again... maybe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Whitehead

"You think the guys designing prosthetics should be administering SAP systems for UCSF?" Strawman your favourite argument? Of course I'm not arguing that.

I'm arguing that a medical academic institution shouldn't prevent possible avenues of medical research by outsourcing key implementations of health care to the lowest bidder. That includes janitorial, engineering, IT, ...

You don't staff janitorial or IT with researchers, but you staff it with people who will be able to work with the researchers. Outsourced IT kills the possibility. Thanks for the janitorial strawman. Keep in mind that doing research with outsourced IT will likely result in the provider manipulating data to provide whatever they think is the desired result from the client. Any research about improving IT in medicine will have zero value.

The reason why I said I hope you're not in charge of anything is because your statement quoted below offloads responsibility from those making decisions. It sounds like a strategy for deflecting responsibility and blaming others for your own lack of expertise:

"I'm saying that if you start with the claim that "the administration cannot properly value IT", the logical conclusion is outsourcing."