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Anyone else see where this is going?
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of the few places where I agree with the Democrats in the US. Internet service really should be regulated as a utility, and internet providers should treat all traffic the same Further, they should not be overselling theit networks, and should be providing what they sell, not "up to" and telling you that even though you lay for a 100MB connection there's no problem if you only ever get 50MB average so long as you get the 100MB every once in a while.
It would be better to borrow from an earlier BOFH. Put in an alarm clock with some curly wires attached, and insert a metallic cutout that has some curly script on it. When they find all this, they'll need to search for the rest of the bomb using a pair of <SCHWACK!!!> rubber gloves.
I LOVE pineapple on a pizza, along with pepperoni, hamburger and mushrooms, double sauce, double cheese, well done on a hand tossed crust. Go on, blackmail me with it. Everyone I know already knows. Better yet, bring one round my house and I'll let you photograph me eating it for extra blackmailly goodness. Just don't expect anything for your efforts.
to put a stop to this is to put said execs in prison, REAL prison, for several years along with fining the company. And, tell their replacements "You can be next." Monetary fines are the cost of doing business, C-suite prison terms makes it far more personal for them. And yes, let the C-suite take the prison sentence for what underlings do. Taking those risks is why they're paid the big bucks.
Awful lot of assumptions there, but I take a bit more cynical view of how a corporation (particularly a utility) will use my equipment for their benefit, starting with the paper they will have you sign stating that they are not responsible for damage or loss of lifepan on the battery. Plus, I only assumed they would run one charge cycle on it per day when they would be able to run more than one. Not to mention, finding the battery drained right when you want to go out because the power company decided to use your juice during the day. No, I just can't see allowing it. You downvoters go right ahead though, don't say you weren't warned.
When every recharge cycle affects battery life, and the battery only has a thousand good charging cycles before range is degraded? Not just no but HELL no. It's bad enough that you'd need new batteries that cost as much as a new car after 200K miles if you'te lucky, but imagine driving 100 miles once a week, and needing to replace the battery after 3 years and 15,000 miles of driving because the utility used your battery for spare backup. I guarantee they'll be charging you 10 times more for the power going in than for the power coming out.
I dunno, I really don't want to see a politician using the BOFH as a guide. I mean sure, watching the rest of the politicians go out the window via the wood chipper would be fun, but then we're left with a bloodthirsty megalomaniac interested only in self enrichment and torture for amusement. That never goes over well for the common muck.
"PS: How do you measure this power per watt of bodyweight I wonder? I'm going to have to investigate..."
Going to take a guess here - the human body is mostly water, so they probably measure the phone's output, then put the phone into a cube with lead on 5 walls and water behind rigid mylar as the 6th wall, then measure the phone's output through the water. Said cube would need to be a kilogram of water, mylar window on 1 side, lead walls on 4 sides, then the last wall lead with a sensor sized mylar window. Lead will not allow radiation to escape, mylar appears invisible to radio waves and is used on satellite antennas to keep water out of the waveguide. Measurement A minus measurement B equals the absorbed power.
Arr an activist investor be not intarrrrested in a company's laaaaoong taaeerm prospects, he be intarrrrested only in plundering the company, driving up the price of the stock in the short taaeerm, then unloading the aarrrrtifically inflated stock price on yon unwitting adventuraaars.
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AND YET YOU'RE STILL THERE! And that is the ongoing problem - NO CORPORATION EVER cares whether their customers like anything, as long as they continue to make money. If you don't like what they do, then shut them off. When enough people do it, THEN they'll make changes. Seems like Github was organically grown to begin with, growing a new one should be a lot faster since you all know what you want and what it should feel like. Only this time, you need an owner that either won't be lured by the Windows Side, or has a plan in place so that the minute M$ pulls the trigger, everyone else jumps ship and leaves M$ with a ghost server. It actually might make a nice little revenue generator.
Actually the two new ideas on the block are standing saddles, where you get to enjoy turbulence while sitting in a 10 speed bicycle seat while almost standing, or a double decker seat where nobody gets a window and the lower deck gets to stare directly into the ass hole of the person in the upper deck. And remember that some airports serve Mexican and Indian food so, hot blast of that literally one foot from your nose.
Place I worked for would do this. If you left your box unlocked the wallpaper would be changed to rather large American football players in a state of photogenic undress, by which I mean laying on a bed with a strategically placed... washcloth, if you were lucky and no washcloth if you weren't. I never participated as this was an HR complaint just begging to happen as soon as one of the thin skinned wandered through, nor was I ever caught out - at my previous place of emoloyment, the favored prank was emailing people from your official workplace email account. Nothing like trying to explain to The Boss that no, you didn't send a letter of resignation while calling him a left handed golfer.
I've often considered copywriting my name (when referring to me) as well as my image, just so I can go after them should my image or my name (when referring to me) is found on these sites. Would make for intereating case law, especially since celebrities have already paved the way here.
No right to repair? Then the OEM is required to replace the defective unit with another one, right up to the last day of the warranty, and provide a new day one warranty on the replacement. Don't make it anymore so don't have a replacement? It gets replaced with the current version level that matches the original purchase (if it was the flagship 10 years ago, customer gets the latest flagship) and again, warranty starts at day 1. Or, allow third parties to repair with third party parts if the customer wants.
I forsee using a cubesat that splits into 4 cubesats with a filament web between them. The cubesat splits out making a net that grabs more and more satellites. Eventually, enough are roped together that the orbital speed can no longer keep the combined mass in orbit, and down they come. The cubesat pieces could even have motors on board that could slow the mass down. Even if the net didn't hold, the effect on orbital speed would still be enough to force a deorbit.
Actually, civilian flights would be a side benefit, not the actual goal regardless of what they say. A Mach 4 passenger plane is also a Mach 4 troop transport that can have a full company of men anywhere in the world in a couple of hours, 4 hours at the outside. NASA and the US military have worked closely together since 1958. It's no accident that astronauts almost always have military rank, while those who don't are always referred to as civiilian astronauts.
Odd, as my company found just the opposite - when people know they are being recorded on Teams and phones, there is no gossip - work only. In person work though, and the gossip flows like the mighty Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico. I like it, no gossip means no inane chatter I have zero interest in listening to.
And that is a foolish attitude on the part of those businesses. The minute a business is no longer profitable, bam - gone. If they make a mistake and lose years of your data, their responsibility begins and ends with "whoops, sorry about that." You'd think they would have learned about unnecessarily relying on others when covid blew up supply chains. And, there have been a number of cloud problems with outages, data theft, ect. All that risk, just to save your own hide from a 5 story fall into a dumpster full of broken glass and machinery.
There is a Constitutional right to be armed, but driving is a privilege. Those that abuse their Constitutional right to be armed by committing a crime get locked up.
And no, there is not a large majority in favor of limits on rights. There is a small minority making a lot of noise for limits, trying to sound like a majority.
"Just this week, a survey indicated that 80 percent of executives actually regret mandating a return to the office, and Atlassian said last month these initiatives destroy staff morale and slow innovation."
This is the amswer. If you like WFH and are forced back to the office, in-office performance needs to crater. So, the days you work from home you do a good job, the days you work from the office you... don't. When asked, cite workplace distractions as interfering with the job, and point out that these diatractions do not exist at home and do not affect your performance. We need a concerted effort to break employers.