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>>There used to be a due process before someone was fired, I wonder where that went and who took it away? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law

So they are assholes if they don't want to spend company resources allowing you to check your personal email while at work? Yeah, you've worked for a "different sort", the kind tha…

I get what you're saying, but Google's history here is atrocious, which is why business' are skittish, people aren't just going to take their word for it. You go first, if you and …

Consider extreme rural areas. I've lived most of my life in rural Alabama and libraries provide an essential resource for many. Giving these people a laptop and a subscription does…

>>I'm wondering why we've never heard of anyone making a good career move by setting up tech at a library Because they are underfunded, Bezos seems to be addressing that. >>kind of…

my initial reaction is to be against this, and then I think but I'm for driverless cars and that cat is pretty much born outside of the bag.

>>I don't understand the hatred of Russia the USA and Russia (USSR) have been at odds far longer than I've been alive. >>Wouldn't we want to be allies with the second most powerful…

>Certainly they believe that weather exists? Exists? Sure. What it actually is? Not really. "Trump also misrepresented what happened to the weather during his swearing in. He said …

>Bob didn’t have multi-factor authentication enabled even if enabled, if it was set to send the code as sms it would go to ... the phone :-\

The article indicates it's the actual scan and says the space "was filled with cerebrospinal fluid, which cushions the brain and provides defence against disease."

>>As I understood it, the "ashes" you receive post-cremation are actually the ground remains of bones from all cremations that took place that day While that is, unfortunately, pre…

Trust is not boolean. I have a reasonable amount of trust in Bruce Schneier based on the information I have available.

I get where you are coming from, however, if being nice gets you better service from IT then, yes, you work at a dysfunctional company. Maybe changing the culture of the company wo…

Yes, a few. They do it by being competent and aware. The point I'm trying to make is that if you don't understand what you need an IT person isn't going to be able to solve your pr…

My time! It's been wasted! Oh noes!

I already have too many people coming by and trying to talk and be my friend. That just prevents me from getting work done. Of course being nice to people is always a good thing to…

That's what I was thinking, I've been using that in Chrome for a long, long time. But this is talking about a 'share' button directly on the web site, as in it's in the list of 'sh…

Before tea, standard sysadmin response: NO After tea and some thought: No thanks

"That stunt should never have happened where it did" yep, they really should have picked a better location, like a military firing range ....

LSD is steroids for meditation. A cheat and a shortcut to the hard work. But it certainly seems to work ;-)

The only thing I haven't seen is this. Ok, using the clickstream data is an established practice, but does Google use clickstream data from users making searches on OTHER search en…

If a company is willing to do something unethical in the beginning, why would they stop later when much more money is involved? I'm going with no, it's never ok.