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GenJerDan wrote: My immediate thought was "Eeeeew. You can grown a brain in the crook of someone's elbow?"
I've had some bosses that had their brain somewhere else.
Not on their elbows.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Microsoft suggests that Windows 10 users are pleased with its changes to privacy controls. "Thank you sir. May I have another?"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Windows 10 users are pleased with its changes to privacy controls.
Yes, because we all read the SLAs and fine print before the Win10 update runs. Always!! 
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You can't now choose when to run it, so how can you read it before?
Besides... since when have the descriptions of the update packages been descriptive?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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This is kind of like the dump trucks that have a big sign on the back that says "not responsible for broken windshields".
It's bad enough these asshats do what they do, but they have the nerve to say "we like it". It's just infuriating.
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Basildane wrote: dump trucks that have a big sign on the back that says "not responsible for broken windshields"
A great analogy.
I like the ones that say, "stay back 100 feet" and then the driver switches lanes suddenly into your lane, so you are only 10 feet behind him. 
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"Not responsible for dump-truck driver's fractured skulls"
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Today struct and class are the two main ways to define a type in C++. From a technical perspective they practically behave the same way, but we have conventions to choose which one to use in order to express different meanings in our code. For those who never met a class they didn't want to tweak
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This is fvcking awesome!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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A quirk in IETF standards potentially leaves private IP addresses exposed. Once that's done, we can make sure it is a good host
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NY Times: [^]Quote: SAN FRANCISCO — Google on Monday fired a software engineer who wrote an internal memo that questioned the company’s diversity efforts and argued that the low number of women in technical positions was a result of biological differences instead of discrimination.
More coverage on Motherboard including complete memo: [^]
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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Here's another view from Forbes. Linking to the google search version because the original is "timing out"  forbes googles-diversity-rumpus-the-fun-thing-is-hes-right-about-the-cause-of-the-gender-disparity - Google Search[^] Note: click the downarrow next to the first link to get the cached version.
//Edit// Seems Tim Worstall has removed the article from his archive. Interesting. Was probably getting death threats.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
modified 8-Aug-17 14:01pm.
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I haven't read his memo, but I can understand his perceived frustration.
At a former job, there was a government requirement that large companies have an ethnic make up and gender mix in the company that matched the community they were in.
Every employee was required to fill out a survey identifying their ethnic background and gender; a fellow employee, an ethnic minority female, decided that her people had been slighted so, identified herself as a Caucasian male to skew the results.
The requirement had NOTHING to do with having the best people for the job: it was simply forcing quotas on employment and management levels based on a survey that wasn't verified.
Yes, I could have lied about my ethnic background and gender... how about honesty and hiring the best people for the job?
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Worked for a large company when I was still going through college and they had a similar requirement.
The site I was at kept getting reprimanded because we weren't hitting the proper percentages. This was because we weren't getting said applicants and can't hire people who don't apply. Turned over all the applications for the past several years, indicated that every applicant that met criteria was hired, and so on.
Huge pain in the backside plus a massive waste of time and resources.
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Whenever the government gets involved things get worse - always. But I digress and I'll save that conversation for the soapbox. 
Jeremy Falcon
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When my younger brother was about 3, he had an infection in his throat. My parents rushed him to the hospital because he was having trouble breathing.
From my mother, Dr. Brown - a black doctor - ran down the hall rolling up his shirt sleeves and straight into surgery where he performed an emergency tracheotomy. He was more concerned about saving a life than taking time to scrub in... and probably saved my brother's life in the process. Skin color or ethnic background does not make anyone the best person for the job - their ability to DO the job is what matters.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: Skin color or ethnic background does not make anyone the best person for the job
Exactly my point...
Except prejudice and bigotry say otherwise.
That's why there are quotas. I'm not saying I agree with quotas, but I'm not saying they are evil either.
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Spot on - the thing is people complaining about "positive discrimination" are failing to address the fact that there is already existing discrimination. Hopefully, over time, both will dwindle to nothing.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Oh don't get me started on this. I realize freedom of speech applies moreso to the government. But even outside of that, humanity will never advance if we always censor those who don't agree with us.
Jeremy Falcon
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