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kinetic
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There was a time in the 90's I fancied myself a beat. Even older folks from that era would say it to me. The new "hippies" don't realize the orginal hippies were decendents of the beat generation. The portable Kerouac is a good read. He originally intended to carry all the names of his characters throughout his books. His publishers didn't like this and made him change the idea. The Portable Kerouac kind of puts all the books together from various chapters the way Jack intended it. You can tell the woman who put it together had a very big crush on Jack too.
minnesmoker
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I apologize. I was part of those "consulting teams" that every I.T. department HATES. We'd come in, own the I.T. department for a couple months, establish dominance by treating the employees like peons and surfs. Their senior engineers would become our coffee and errand tools. Find the local "on the edge" guy -- every department has at least one. Bring him "into the circle" and just go nuts, competing for their downfall. And, it was a long, drawn out process, multiple teams with new lead engineers every time. Pre-audit, testing, proposals, technical documentation, security implementation, post upgrade audit, certification audit. We did help the companies, but, we were mostly sociopaths or narcissists. That show "House of Lies" is pretty accurate.
dirtsurfr
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You need to balance your karma, I truly belive in what goes around.........
see4
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My buddy works at Intel. I hear similar stories of this nature often. He was recently at Microsoft doing the very same thing. It was Apple a few months ago... go figure.
Figong
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Ahahaha.. this brings back memories, especially when we were doing penetration testing and we were at full audit stage, ripping the software apart then printing sections of the code. We'd print hilarious sections of code, anonymously slap them to the fridge with a note that said 'What the hell is this supposed to accomplish?'
minnesmoker
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Pretty sure that little most wanted fiasco, and the whole interpol thing, and then off to prison all for telling a cop I'd kill him was a big heaping shit pile of karma. And, when I had to move my grow, and 3 plants hermied, that was also karma! I take care of my mom now, as well as I can, I let my lady direct my energy, as long as I'm not bored, I can maintain "happy." And, she says there's the big bonus: I help people out a lot. Even with computers. If ya' need your shit fixed, I require 3 things: Something to munch, while I'm working, your computer brought to me, and, either some good beer and hard cider, or some bud, so it's not work, it's hangin' out and us lookin' at your computer.
The thing is, I remember it, but don't miss it one bit. But, we really can't be around each other a lot, in real life. Either we hate each other, which is dangerous to us, or we like each other, which is dangerous to everyone we come into contact with. In I.T. we would move city to city, around the world, paid for by major corporations and governments. They had seen the damage we do, but knew our services outweighed the harm; a corporate sponsored license to debauchery, and they even provided the fodder. Some companies used consulting teams like ours as weeding out tools; they'd bring us in, and just watch the carnage, and fire everyone that got caught up in the shit storm, then they'd give us a bonus for helping them "streamline." It's hard to explain, but, once you get into the competition, you've got to see it through, it's a draw that's impossible to stop.
It's funny, I always ask about "empathy." Most people don't answer. I know the definition that's never what I ask. A couple years ago, my lady gave me THE shining example, thus far. In my quest to kill boredom, I've broken most of the bones in my body. I remember how the breaks felt, the rib cage cracking in my chest, my tail bone impact fracturing when I came off a bike at 120. Anyway, I was very bake, and we were watching Saw IV, where they are twisting and breaking the one guy, all of those places I broke FELT what that dude in the movie did. That's like empathy, but it's normally shared emotions. At least, that's what the boss lady said.
minnesmoker
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When at Apple, show off shiny MacBook -- running Windows 7x64.
While at Intel, make sure your Toshiba with AMD is used for projection room.
Microsoft? Yeah, check out my MacBook Pro, running SuSE Linux!
Microsoft's team consultants are BRUTAL! One team, outta New York, 8 guys, all Israeli former Mossad. We used to go drinking with them down in Tennessee, sure as shit a bar-fight every single time.
Strip your comments for updated code, have the little local code monkey read it (variable? Easy: all numeric variable types are done thus: 1a, all text/string are A1.) When they complain to their supervisor, question the abilities of said code monkey, add single comment to code to conform to management request: /*this was hard to write, it should be hard to read.*/
Penetration Testing ALWAYS started with the front office...
Fungus Gnat
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[video=youtube;Umc9ezAyJv0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umc9ezAyJv0[/video]
ClaytonBigsby
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Damn brother, I should have called you "Stillbreathing" in the members thread. I hope all goes well.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
You must be running out of clean young I.T. people. cn
Figong
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hahaha @ Mossad bar fight - guaranteed that they didn't lose.. good use of tech propaganda to add chaos to the mix, and when you guys were at MS - did you happen to spot the comments in the socket-related code that was similar to /* We don't know why this is here, but if we remove it.. it won't work */ ? That was around in more than few MS versions, am not sure as of Windows 7/8 though.
minnesmoker
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The bar fights. When my brother came back to the U.S. from his extended deployment as an "end target termination specialist" along with his unit, we all went out drinking in Georgia. It was NOT pretty. It was like a competition to see who could do the most damage. And, with fairly fresh military badges on all of 'em, they'd just walk out of trouble.
I worked for Microsoft's competitors. The security folks... I liked "fuck me with a chainsaw" in a kernel level network driver, and "fuck me bloody running backwards in a hurricane" in a Bayesian filter for spam. We'd go in, side by side, with the MS team, and be competing for server space, server times, network control, security protocols, primary operating systems, VPN and firewall schema.
I talked to an ex-girlfriend about 5 years ago. We had dated almost 20 years prior. She saw pics of me, and just laughed her ass off. Asked what I did and laughed even more. Found out I prefer wing tips to flat tips, and nothing but black suits, and she just about died. Sent me a pic of her and a bag of weed, and said "you forgot. Sellout." I was going through an interesting time, and when I went to the doc. in New Mexico, he handed me a recommendation. I walked away from I.T. a few months later, and, barely look back. I have gotten very close to zen.
Figong
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hahaha @ fuck me bloody running backwards in a hurricane - that's great! As for the badges, yes.. Mossad get away with murder (yes, had to pun.. best I could do given the quick thought on it)
dirtsurfr
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LOL!!! thats what, no it wasn't!!
I totally made it sound like that but I started the wake and bake at 3am this morning.
I don't know why but it's so peaceful and a good time for me to meditate.
RyanTheRhino
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Im bored ...... to much down time at work. Manager needs to step it up and get more organized so we can move on to the next projects
Figong
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Ryan, this is easily fixed - just tell your manager you want to be management/project lead on the next one.. and then you can make it run faster/properly/to your expectations. Benefits are plentiful, especially if you create your own unique work title that covers multiple projects and guarantees/solidifies a spot for you in each of them to help regulate how the shit is going down. Also demonstrates more of an indirect leadership ability without stepping on toes.
Figong
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damn man, slow it down! Things ok? icing it?
RyanTheRhino
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I probably would if i could. I am still a young mech engineer with only 2 years experience. I only have a FE I need 4 years of experience to even sit for the PE exam to become a professional engineer. My signature would be invalid for any design involving the safety of people. Which is everything basically