johnjhayes

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by johnjhayes 9y ago
>>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
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by johnjhayes 9y ago
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 that waste money it seems. Many places I&#x
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by johnjhayes 9y ago
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 100 others have a good experience maybe
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by johnjhayes 9y ago
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 doesn't help much if they don't have a decent int
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by johnjhayes 9y ago
>>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 point, no? No, the provided exampl
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by johnjhayes 9y ago
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.
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by johnjhayes 10y ago
>>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 country? maybe, but we aren&#x27
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by johnjhayes 10y ago
>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 he felt a few drops of rain as he started delivering
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by johnjhayes 10y ago
>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 :-\
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by johnjhayes 12y ago
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."
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by johnjhayes 13y ago
>>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, pretty common for pet cremations it not suppos
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by johnjhayes 13y ago
Trust is not boolean. I have a reasonable amount of trust in Bruce Schneier based on the information I have available.
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by johnjhayes 13y ago
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 would be a good idea. From my perspective what you are doing i
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by johnjhayes 13y ago
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 problems by just throwing technology against a
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by johnjhayes 13y ago
My time! It's been wasted! Oh noes!
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by johnjhayes 13y ago
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 do, but it's not going to solve IT problems. Here is w
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by johnjhayes 14y ago
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 'share' buttons like fb, g+, email and all the rest. I'm not re
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by johnjhayes 15y ago
Before tea, standard sysadmin response: NO After tea and some thought: No thanks
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by johnjhayes 15y ago
"That stunt should never have happened where it did" yep, they really should have picked a better location, like a military firing range ....
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by johnjhayes 15y ago
LSD is steroids for meditation. A cheat and a shortcut to the hard work. But it certainly seems to work ;-)
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by johnjhayes 16y ago
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 engines, or just their own? This is the crux for me, Bing is u
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by johnjhayes 16y ago
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.