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I love the comment: “Who would have thought that there were such clever criminals in Ellesmere Port”
I guess, once it's posted, you need a court order to open it to see if it contains stolen items - and when it's delivered the best the police can do is "handling stolen property"
That's clever - if they put as much thinking into actual work instead of crime they could do really well...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sounds like they were doing quite well anyway! 
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Having worked in Ellesmere Port a few years ago, and having bought my lunch in that ASDA in many occasions, I can tell you that the usual shoplifter in that hellhole is a drug addled invertebrate that would lose in a battle of wits with a snail.
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Great idea !
But their reaction is quite poor. This a great example of how people are always fighting symptoms of problems and not root causes. Plus I do not see how the provided solution (hide the envelopes behind their desk) prevent people from using the envelopes.
Bad solution idea:
- Hide the envelopes. Needs more resources to handle people needing envelopes, hides products that are to be sold from potential customer view, and openly consider customers as potential thefts.
Better solution idea:
- Scan the items that have been posted. Maybe the thieves do not always think about removing the RFID label.
- Put RFID in the envelopes. Expensive idea, but removing the RFID would destroy the envelopes.
Best solution:
- Move the post office outside of the store. The root cause of the problem is the very possibility to outsource goods from within the store. This is a no-go.
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chriselst wrote: A couple of days old this story, so risking a repost, but a brilliant idea
Novel action prompted after The Pirate Bay was raided... tsk tsk... the consequences 
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"The post office then takes it away without you going through the alarm gate."
Should still be easy to catch when the mail bag goes through; and the perps have conveniently supplied their names and addresses for the cops. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Should still be easy to catch when the mail bag goes through; and the perps have conveniently supplied their names and addresses for the cops.
I'm going to guess the post office have their own entrance so they don't have to carry bags of letters and parcels through the shoppers and main doors then walk to where the van is parked.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I find this a "fishy" story: if the staff in the music/video department were aware that customers were taking goods they had not paid for and putting them in envelopes to post to themselves, then they are accessories to crime.
I'd say the store manager was also stupid and/or negligent to allow the relocation of the packaging materials in the first place.
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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While we're on the subject of code reviews, what do you guys think about sloppy code that's not formatted well? I tend to not think I'm that anal retentive, but I admit the poindexter comes out when I see sloppy code that's not kept up to a proper margin, not indented decently, old commented code left in, etc.
Oddly enough, the coders that write messy code tend to also have messy cars and homes. It's gross.
Jeremy Falcon
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However awful my code might be, at least it's properly formatted...
I agree with you; it's the same when I interview a developer that turns up looking like a homeless person: if you can't be bothered to take care of yourself, why would I believe that you'd be any different with your attitude to coding?
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Or if they smell bad man. All the sudden the entire interaction becomes about the stinch and how to get away from it.
Jeremy Falcon
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That is the worst of all possible scenarios. Have had to tell someone that they need to bathe. Was not pleasant.
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So you think Einstein was wrong? 
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Quote: if you can't be bothered to take care of yourself
Pic[^]. Do you think he`looks like a physicist or a hobo?
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He looked somewhat disheveled which is not the same as looking like a hobo.
Besides, I, like the man, hate wearing socks.
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I think the comments about the looks on one subject also reflects the action in another. If it truly were like that you'd never be fooled, by, let's say, politicians. 
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I doubt Einstein ever showed up for a job interview looking like that, especially in his younger years. Once you've established yourself you can pull off the disheveled look
(Found a pic [^])
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Very interesting link... Thanks!
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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You're certainly no Einstein if you can't figure it out ... but that was already obvious.
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Probably. 
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That's kind of a shallow analogy.
It's like comparing Tesla's love for physics and women.
You just cannot seek connections between ones physical appearance and mental capabilities.
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Years of research have shown that I can develop software just as well in jeans and tennis shoes as compared to slacks and dress shoes.
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It was, of course, somewhat of a generalization - my wife tells me I look like a tramp on the days I can't be asked to shave.
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Errr.. no.
For years the military has used attention to excruciating detail in training to get soldiers aware of small things.. since ignoring small things can get you killed in combat.
The attitude you bring to the table regarding how you handle details shows up in ALL we do. And good software is definitely about managing details well.
I couldn't disagree with you more.
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