09:10 – It’s a typical autumn day here. It’s raining, with a forecast high of 49 and a low tonight of 48.
While she was walking Colin yesterday, Barbara stopped to talk with Mary Littlejohn, Kim’s mom. Mary told her that Kim’s niece Toya had been out running errands with her kids yesterday and returned home to find that her home had been burgled. Fortunately, the criminals were already gone. Toya lives in a “nice” neighborhood, where this kind of stuff isn’t supposed to happen.
Our neighborhood has also had a rash of burglaries lately, and there have been home invasions not far from here, including one last week where the homeowner was shot by intruders. Until recently, I didn’t bother to lock the door when I walked Colin, because I was never really out of sight of our front door. Now, I lock the door when we leave, even if (or particularly if) Barbara is at home. We also keep the glass storm door locked even when we’re both at home and Colin is lying in the foyer watching for intruders and squirrels.
Sparta has very little crime, and almost no violent crime. I’ll be much happier living up there.
I guess I am weird. I have never been one to leave the main door open, particularly with a glass storm door. I get opening the windows in spring and fall when you don’t really need heat or air conditioning. But leaving the main door open to let a little light in doesn’t make sense to me, particularly when you have a covered porch 3 feet deep shading the mostly east facing door? (I’m referring to our front door, not Bob’s.)
Drives me nuts to find our front door open, with just the storm door closed.
Generally, when I walked thru a door, I locked it behind me. This habit got severely modified now that I have kids though.
And it’s hard to convince the wife. This despite the home invasions we had a couple of years ago in our neighborhood, and the prominence of the ‘gypsy’ scam. Someone knocks on the front door, and while you are occupied with them, someone else enters thru the back and robs you. Or if the knocker doesn’t get a response, the back door gets kicked in and you get burgled.
You don’t have to cower in your fortress of solitude, but you don’t have to invite crime in either.
nick
Storm doors don’t exist around here. Security screen doors however are very popular. I have three. I also have three dogs(two at #80 and one #40) and none of them like strangers. Hell, the UPS guys can’t even approach the front door even when closed without setting them off.
“You don’t have to cower in your fortress of solitude, but you don’t have to invite crime in either.”
I’ve always been a bit security conscious and always keep doors (dead)locked. It’s nice now that I have efficient a/c and don’t usually need to open windows. The previous house in Canberra had no a/c, low ceilings and was a hothouse in summer. A young woman who once boarded with me could not be persuaded consistently to shut windows and lock doors when she went out, despite my repeated requests. “This place is like Fort Knox”, she complained.
I wonder how she would have felt if some miscreant had broken in due to her lax security and raped her…
Our family was lucky in 1972, the day my sister married. We all trooped off to the wedding, leaving the front door open and the lounge full of wedding presents. It was all there when we got back six hours later. There was a bit of an inquest into who was the last person out.
Heh. The day Barbara and I got married, we had former Green Berets house-sitting at our house and parents’ houses.
“Amazon and Google Reap Over Half of Every Dollar Spent Online”
https://www.petri.com/amazon-google-reap-half-every-dollar-spent-online
“If you’ve ever wondered why Microsoft has endured tens of billions of dollars in losses related to its Bing search business, wonder no more. The Internet economy is now worth over $300 billion annually, and only two firms—Amazon.com and Google—control fully 57 percent of that.”
Wow. Two businesses under 20 years old each with that kind of sales.
“What Happens If Links Get Copyright Protection In Europe?”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/lisabrownlee/2015/11/09/hyperlinks-may-be-under-attack-save-the-link/
Game changer.
The EU commission is populated by idiots and is on sale to the lowest bidder. So far, the EU Parliament is pretty sensible, and can tell the Commission to go stuff itself. This is from the Commission.
Sigh.
At work writing my job description, not too bad.
But having write job procedures for some of the stuff I do seems like writing your own epitaph. Sort of depressing. I also developed a short quiz for prospective applicants to determine their knowledge of some critical requirements of the job. You have to replace the square brackets with the html brackets.
[cfset V1 = ”010”]
[cfset V2 = 10]
[cfif V1 EQ V2]
[cfoutput]V1 is equal to V2[/cfoutput]
[cfelse]
[cfoutput]V1 not equal V2[/cfoutput]
[/cfif]
What would be the output produced?
Why would the output be produced?
This is a simple test to see if the individual understands using JavaScript.
onClick=”document.getElementById(‘F1′).action=’F2.cfm’;”
Would this be a correct statement for an event on a form submit field?
If not, why?
If yes, what does it accomplish?
This is a simple test to see if the person has a basic understanding of HTML.
[!DOCTYPE html]
[html lang=”en”]
[head]
[title]HTML Test[/title]
[/head]
[body]
[table]
[tbody]
[tr]
[td style=”text-align:right;”]First Name[/td]
[td style=”text-align:left;”]Billy[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td style=”text-align:center;”][hr]
[/tr]
[/tbody]
[/table]
[/body]
[/html]
Is there anything incorrect in the above HTML code?
If so, what is incorrect?
The EU commission is populated by idiots and is on sale to the lowest bidder.
Should that not be the highest bidder? Or has the EU commission really set their sites low?
Been a long time since I sat in a CS course,
in the first case, prints out not equal, as one is text and the other numeric
second case, no idea
third case
why is [hr] in brackets at the end of the table line instead of closing the td tag?
nick
that’s my final answer.
What in the world is going on at the University of Missouri?
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2015/11/08/missouri-protest-list-demands-issued-to-university.html
“1. We demand that the University of Missouri System President, Tim Wolfe, writes a handwritten apology to the Concerned Student 1-9-5-0 demonstrators and holds a press conference in the Mizzou Student Center reading the letter. In the letter and at the press conference, Tim Wolfe must acknowledge his white male privilege, recognize that systems of oppression exist, and provide a verbal commitment to fulfilling Concerned Student 1-9-5-0 demands. We want Tim Wolfe to admit to his gross negligence, allowing his driver to hit one of the demonstrators, consenting to the physical violence of bystanders, and lastly refusing to intervene when Columbia Police Department used excessive force with demonstrators.”
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_UNIVERSITY_OF_MISSOURI_TURMOIL?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-11-09-11-24-09
“The president of the University of Missouri system resigned Monday with the football team and others on campus in open revolt over his handling of racial tensions at the school.”
My apologies is this has been discussed, but I’ve not been a frequent visitor of late. Any VPN recommendations?
@lynn, someone needed a distraction.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/11/figures-top-mizzou-campus-protest-leader-and-social-justice-warrior-is-democrat-mccaskills-intern/
nick
in the first case, prints out not equal, as one is text and the other numeric
And you would be incorrect. ColdFusion is a typeless language and the type of data is based on what is stored in the variable. A number stored in a variable by using quotes is the same as just storing the number. A tricky question but weeds out the people who have just read, and never coded in the language.
second case, no idea
That code changes the destination of a form post to a different page as coded in the form tag.
why is [hr] in brackets at the end of the table line instead of closing the td tag?
Partially correct. There are two issues. One is the missing TD ending tag. The other problem is that there are not the same number of columns in the table because of a missing TD tag pair or a COLSPAN attribute.
Ah, that is just me trying to figure out the test from the material ON the test. It’s what I do when I don’t know the material.
I have a very vague and out of date familiarity with the web mechanics.
My original photo resume’ page is still up, written in ’90 I think, using a 1.0 version of a piece of software that I think still exists. [just checked page, and it’s down at the moment. was a pretty early effort but worked for me. and until recently was still up, using mapping for a clickable banner. might as well be using gopher or archie.]
Seems like a good weed out test. I’m surprised HR would allow a test though. Too many opportunities to cry ‘discrimination.’
nick
I’ll continue to translate literary, historical and political codes; youse guys can have all the rest. Yikes. So I guess this means I can’t have Mr. Ray’s job. Damn.
Hey, quit worrying, y’all! Gary North sez that short of two or three potential events, we won’t have a major collapse:
http://www.garynorth.com/members/14470print.cfm
If no EMP, cyber-attack on the Grid, or plague, we’ll get by OK.
Nothing like playing dice. Let’s hope the relevant parties are doing the best they can to prevent those things. While we all do our little parts out here.
My current favorite is plague followed by EMP (see “Perseid Collapse” books):
http://www.amazon.com/The-Jakarta-Pandemic-Steven-Konkoly/dp/1495907376/
@lynn, someone needed a distraction.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/11/figures-top-mizzou-campus-protest-leader-and-social-justice-warrior-is-democrat-mccaskills-intern/
And Rush explains it well as usual:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/11/09/institutions_of_higher_victimization_are_getting_exactly_what_they_deserve
“The faculty did not like the president to begin with, before any of this started. You know why? The president, Tim Wolfe, only had a bachelor’s degree. He wasn’t properly educated. He didn’t have a postgraduate degree. He didn’t have one, period. He just had a bachelor degree. Now, they’ve got no problem with student athletes not learning anything. The faculty at these places have no problem with student athletes barely attending class and few of them even graduating. But when it comes to the university president, he was white, and he only had a bachelor’s degree. No specific complaints were actually ever cited. It was basically a list of complaints about the atmosphere on campus.”
Hey, quit worrying, y’all! Gary North sez that short of two or three potential events, we won’t have a major collapse:
http://www.garynorth.com/members/14470print.cfm
If no EMP, cyber-attack on the Grid, or plague, we’ll get by OK.
Nothing like playing dice. Let’s hope the relevant parties are doing the best they can to prevent those things. While we all do our little parts out here.
He forgot financial collapse of the USA due to over-spending and general incompetence.
The University of Missouri situation is absurd. The whole incident started when a redneck rectum in a pickup truck called a black student a word starting with the 14th letter of the alphabet. I don’t think we even know if the guy in the pickup was even a student. I think that kind of name calling is rude and obnoxious, but it’s also protected First Amendment speech. That said, if I were on a jury trying a black defendant who punched someone in the mouth for calling him a six letter word starting with n, I would be inclined to vote not guilty.
I’m surprised HR would allow a test though.
We are too small to have an HR person. The main boss fills that role.
Ah, that is just me trying to figure out the test from the material ON the test.
And it was indeed a reasonable guess. But we don’t people using information on the test to discern the answer. If they have knowledge of the language and have used it they would know the answer. The goal is to weed out the guessers. Even though they have a 50/50 chance of being correct.
All of the web code is written in ColdFusion, some of it fairly complicated. Without experience in the language it would be difficult to learn or discern even though I have avoided trying to be clever. I don’t write something in one statement that can be in five statements. Makes problem solving easier and the code easier to understand.
“He forgot financial collapse of the USA due to over-spending and general incompetence.”
Not really; he basically just writes that off as of not much consequence; the system is literally too big to fail; the free market and us consumers out here will somehow keep it all rolling merrily along, like in the Great Depression, when Shirley Temple didn’t go hungry and peeps went to the movies in droves.
If the U.S. has a major financial collapse, it will likely come after the rest of the world collapses. So far, even Greece is not as as bad as the failed state to our south.
“…if I were on a jury trying a black defendant who punched someone in the mouth for calling him a six letter word starting with n, I would be inclined to vote not guilty.”
What if the situation was reversed? A black guy calls a white defendant a bad name, like, say, fummamucker, which seems to be every other word from some of them, and he punches the guy in the mouth.
“Makes problem solving easier and the code easier to understand.”
You haven’t lived until you’ve attended an English department grad school presentation or read one of the dissertations. Peeps used to tell me reading Hobbes was a tough road, but he’s “Dick and Jane” compared to those fummamuckers.
I’m laughing at all the libturds today whining about open borders, white privilege, racist cops, etc. They’ll be the first ones squealing “send the cops!!” when TSHTF. Maybe they are counting on the Crips, Bloods and MS13 policing their communities. lol!!! Head for the hills! The low life scum are going to have a field day in WHITEY!’s neighborhood.
Not really; he basically just writes that off as of not much consequence; the system is literally too big to fail; the free market and us consumers out here will somehow keep it all rolling merrily along, like in the Great Depression, when Shirley Temple didn’t go hungry and peeps went to the movies in droves.
It is too big to fail until it fails. The financial collapse of the USA will be announced by a raid on IRAs and 401Ks. Then the funds to hospitals and such will be “late”. Then the employees of said hospitals will not get get paid. Then the hospitals will close. Then the bad stuff happens.
We did not have a financial collapse of the USA during the Great Depression. Our last financial collapse in the USA was in 1907:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907
J. P. Morgan himself fixed that one by creating The Federal Reserve. To me, a financial collapse of the USA is where the Federal Reserve goes belly up.
What if the situation was reversed? A black guy calls a white defendant a bad name, like, say, fummamucker, which seems to be every other word from some of them, and he punches the guy in the mouth.
I was at a Eagles concert 2 or 3 years ago. Glenn Frey introduced himself as a guy from Detroit where fummamucker is just one word.
If the U.S. has a major financial collapse, it will likely come after the rest of the world collapses. So far, even Greece is not as as bad as the failed state to our south.
Forgot to mention that I have a new customer in Greece, an engineering firm. They paid our invoice within a week too, nice, very nice.
We’ve signed over a million dollars in new contracts so far this year. Not as good as 2014 when we signed $2.4 million in new contracts but we are doing ok.
re Ray’s test, if you use ColdFusion you’re already living in a state of sin.
if you use ColdFusion you’re already living in a state of sin
It is actually quite nice for a web language. Much better than print statements from other languages. Nice database integration, nice integration with HTML, quick development. Works well, gets the job done.
I saw this article on ars about linux ransomware. Might be of interest to you linux users.
The antivirus software company Doctor Web has issued an alert about a new form of crypto-ransomware that targets users of Linux-based operating systems. Designated as “Linux.Encoder.1” by the company, the malware largely targets Web servers, encrypting their contents and demanding a ransom of one Bitcoin (currently about $500).
[snip] I think that kind of name calling is rude and obnoxious, but it’s also protected First Amendment speech. [snip]
The Negroes whom I am proud to call friend are a lot harder to offend.
Bah. ColdFusion rots the brain and destroys web developers’ careers. It causes global warming and it has been linked to a rise in yeast infection among women aged 27-35.
I’ve always liked using ColdFusion; started back in the late 90’s, as I recall. Haven’t done it since I left the last job 1 1/2 years ago. But knew the answer to the first problem. Always thought CF was great; better than PHP; just costs more.
As for the third problem, although the HTML code is not proper, most browser will interpret the table even without the missing [/td]. IIRC.
(Although I just got home from a 900+mile drive – SLC to Olympic Penninsula – so I wouldn’t guarantee anything I just said).
“Options dwindle. Time grows short. You ought to spend it preparing.”
In line with our ongoing discussion here. But some bad language here:
http://www.dethguild.com/minimum-wage-bullshit-explained/
“German public health officials are now on the lookout for Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever, diphtheria, Ebola, hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, malaria, measles, meningitis, mumps, polio, scabies, tetanus, tuberculosis, typhus and whooping cough. As refugee shelters fill to overflowing, doctors are also on high alert for mass outbreaks of influenza and Norovirus.” (Thanks to Daniel McAdams)”
Very nice indeed! When will the Goths, Huns, whomever, rise up?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/immigrant-diseases-flooding-germany/
More here:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/rioting-catholic-churches-shoplifting-run-amok-rape/
As for the third problem, although the HTML code is not proper, most browser will interpret the table even without the missing
Indeed they will. In this case the horizontal line would only be across the first column rather than both columns. But the rest of the table would display OK.
I bought a HTML validation program to start validating some of the HTML code that was being generated. It was astounding that a page would render correctly with some of the errors that were in the HTML.
All this happened over time due to code rot. I finally decided it was time to make the code HTML 5 compliant. In doing so I discovered all the problems. Easy to generate invalid HTML when the HTML is dynamically generated. Took several months to correct the problems in the code and make it correct HTML and HTML 5 compliant.
ColdFusion rots the brain and destroys web developers’ careers.
Having used PHP and ASP for some projects I would take ColdFusion over any of those options any day. The database integration is so much better and easier to use. The intermixing of CFML and HTML code is much easier to understand than using print statements to output the HTML. Generating a SELECT box in ASP using data from a database is a royal pain to get the the HTML correct. Doing it with ColdFusion is trivial as you use HTML substituting CF variables where needed. ASP (or was it PHP? Been awhile) requires multiple print statements broken up by the variable substitution making the code harder to read.
But I also liked COBOL, BPL and ALGOL and my own custom designed language and compiler.
In line with our ongoing discussion here. But some bad language here:
http://www.dethguild.com/minimum-wage-bullshit-explained/
@OFD – I enjoyed that link. The only bad language I see is that which will make the liberal-fascist-pigs bristle at how unfair it is.
I remember the day when my 25¢/week allowance (earned by mowing the lawn and other choirs) paid for my Saturday afternoon matinee and big box of popcorn or I could blow it at the Carmelcorn Shop and buy enough candy to keep me in a sugar high for a week.
BTW, my first job (at 14) was stacking and sorting pop bottles for 65¢/hr in a liquor store, I got a raise to 75¢/hr and started stocking the beer cooler too. Fun was had by all 😉
I didn’t spot any bad language either.
Well, the c-word was in there and I know that really bothers a lot of readers, esp. from the other sex (there are only two, BTW…lol).
OFD shoveled snow, mowed lawns, delivered newspapers, worked part-time gigs as cinema usher, supermarket stockboy, department store stockboy, etc., etc. In my senior year of high skool I moved up the ladder and worked as a young men’s clothing salesman on commission at that same department store, Jordan Marsh, at Shopper’s World, Framingham, MA. Back-to-school, Xmas and Easter I was rolling in cash. Paid for my own ten-speed bike, my books and records, clothes, and snacks. Also beer and pot. And ate four or five times a day without gaining an ounce.
A kid who hustles a bit can still do all this stuff, IMHO. Or they can sit around at home with the iPad and SnapChat and bitch about their hard lives.