Some time in the past twelve hours, the ToS was updated. There is no longer any trace of the recording clause.
There is still a clause that requires me to waive my right to participate in a class action though. I can sue EventBrite only individually, not as part of a class action. (It appears that no-one, for any reason, whether merchant or customer, can ever pursue them in a class action under that ToS.)
Each of those sensors had an arrow that was supposed to point toward the top of the vehicle, however multiple sensors on the failed rocket were pointing downward instead.
It seems amazing that something as fundamental as this was not caught during quality control. Even more amazing is that the design of the sensors permits them to be installed in the wrong orientation in the first place. Even the simplest of mechanical interlocks (such as a notch at one end that must be matched with a corresponding projection) could have prevented the accident.
I'm actually here in the US all the way from Australia with nothing in particular to do until the 7th of July. So if anyone's in the area and wants to meet up to talk about Fnorb, Python, or whatever, that would be cool. I have rental car, so my range is pretty huge.
Just email me, or reply here, and we'll work something out.
I managed to find about 7 hours total to work on Fnorb this weekend - which I haven't managed to do in some time now.
I said I'd stay away from code today, but I found myself with nothing to do tonight after kicking people out and so started mucking around with the new Python "decorator" syntax. Trouble is, the documentation on this new feature is very terse and there are certainly no examples, and so it took me a little bit of fiddle work and experimenting to figure out exactly how to write my own decorators.
After a series of increasingly bizarre press releases from this organisation comes this headline: ACS pushes own IT 'licence'
"THE Australian Computer Society (ACS) has called on government to support its bid to become the accreditation agency for the IT profession, making membership mandatory for computer staffers ranging from Microsoft Certified Engineers to high-level project managers."
So this idea of doing more formal study has entered into my head for one reason or another.
Google have given me so many Gmail invitations recently that I've just about run out of interested people that I know personally to give them to.
So, if you want one just reply here with [first name, last name, email address], or email me, and I'll give you one. I currently have 5 left.
Driving home tonight, I passed the local "Sizzlers" restaurant franchise which brought to mind a scene of blasphemous horror I had witnessed recently that defied all logic and common sense - and indeed made me question my own sanity and the nature of the world in which we find ourselves. However, even at the risk of being though a madman, I feel the tale should be told to serve as a warning to others.
So I resolved early this year to actually get myself an upgrade in the vehicular department - then I promptly decided I was going to change jobs and so decided to put it off until that was done.
Well, now that the "change jobs" phase of my so-called master plan is over, I can work on the "get car" bit.
When last we left our hero, he had refused to submit to the "all your base are belong to us" IP agreement, and had parried with some proposed changes of his own. And now, back to the action
So, I'd sent off the proposed wording to my new manager, and from there it had gone to the local legal people, and from there to the external legal people the company keeps around to consult on such things.
So, I've been trying to complete the POA stuff in the Fnorb documentation this afternoon - it's really slow going when you haven't touched it for months. I can't remember what half these POA policy values are for, let alone what they mean or how much of it I actually implemented. So I've got a window with the POA spec in it, a window with the documentation I'm editing open, and about 20 other windows viewing different parts of my POA code as I try to put it all together in my h
Crawled out of bed late this morning after a night spent drinking with friends from current and previous employers
We all live in a state of ambitious poverty. -- Decimus Junius Juvenalis
