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A Xbox will also do the trick, if you already have one.
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That would be the way to get one...
Mrs. Wife... we need an XBOX... you know it is only for Netflix...
No... I've never had a console and I won't start it right now... I just don't have time to play games, but if they would not be so expensive it would be an option.
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I use the Xbox (or kindle). My kid uses his Wii, but he also has a blue ray player that will do it. Both the Xbox and the blue ray can connect to the wire, but the wii can only use wireless.
Last weekend I finally got around to hooking up a wireless router just for the kid's many devices.
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This blasphemous author will surely die a slow death from the claws of Cat-Goddess Bastet, shortly [^].
Bill (Cat/Bast worshiper)
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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What a hideous individual!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Written by some idiot who has never seen or tasted cat 
--edit
..20 cats is hardly a population to test on. Whoever paid for that research should demand his money back.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Cats are very useful animals...
I have a book somewhere entitled "101 Uses of a...",  oh. Sorry Bill.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Are cats intelligent, or merely cunning, mendacious and manipulative?
It reads to me like this was written by someone who actually got outwitted by a cat. And unknowingly admitted it to the world at large.
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That guy just described himself!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Author wrote: no indication of cat intelligence but merely low cunning, mendacious and manipulative behaviour
Nope I think he got that about right, and I like cats!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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A more conclusive sign of intelligence I can't imagine. The two halves of that sentence are in no way opposed to each other.
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A Rare Boomeranging Telescopic Phrase Maze with No Hint of Welsh Rarebit
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Rare Earth First Aid Kit Carson City, Nevada Falling Waters and Howlin' Wolf Blitzkrieglights camera action Jackson Mississippi River of No Return to Sender's Gamey Tasting and Cooked Rare
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Along the same lines as Windows Admin Rights for Software Engineers....
Our workplace recently decided to push down a policy for Symantec to scan for Reputation risks - any software not defined by Symantec's large community of users is marked as a WS.Reputation.1 risk and will be deleted. Add to that if found multiple times you get automatically disconnected from the workplace network. We write software for our INTERNAL use only, for testing our products. It is not "sold" to the general public. So IT wants to know the EXACT spelling, the EXACT paths, and have the source code to review to make sure we are not writing malware instead of our jobs. A few of us got banned and it took 8 business days to get computer access back to "normal". In the mean time I got to organize my file cabinets ... They put the "delete" and ban on hold for now while they try and figure out how to make it work... For now I rename my executables to OUTLOOK.exe, POWERPNT.exe 
So how does your workplace handle this ?
Toto1107
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Toto1107 wrote: So how does your workplace handle this ?
We hire people we can trust.  
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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we fire people who think of that.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I would fire anyone that installs Symantec Antiproductivity.
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That's a bit harsh. Your typical non-technical PHB doesn't have the background to realize what a disaster it would be; any punishment beyond smirks and poorly suppressed laughter from the CTI/CIO when he suggests it the boardroom is overkill. Now if it's IMPLEMENTED that's a different story; then burn management to the ground.
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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Toto1107 wrote: and have the source code to review to make sure we are not writing malware
..you found someone who is more paranoid than I am. That is saying a lot 
Simple advice; run and don't look back. A company that is crippling itself will not survive long.
--edit
Forgot to answer what the 'workplace' does. Well, we are local admins, install all kind of crap, and getting a code-review, well, I would be delighted. If I would install Warcraft, then I guess I would be fired, which sounds reasonable to me.
Toto1107 wrote: So IT wants to know the EXACT spelling, the EXACT paths, and have the source
code to review to make sure we are not writing malware
Sorry, everytime I read it start to laugh, it simply feels like a joke. Are you allowed to use the toilet without supervision? Is there someone next to you when you are "reading" in that spot, just to make sure that you are not building malware on your smartphone to take over and destroy the company?
You should tell your boss that, since you work with code, there's a security risk that you steal that code. You should not have access to the code, and write it on paper, based on the specifications that you are not allowed to see. Then someone with the correct access-permission can type it in, build it, and hand you any build-errors back on paper 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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We stopped working with Symantec products for a long time now.
I remember a huge problem with BackupExec, I think it was back in 2010, and it took three weeks to get a support from an engineer who did not even manage to figure out the cause of the issue.
And when a friend or someone of my family buys a new laptop, and I take care of the initial configuration, Symantec is on my blacklist.
while (true) {
continue;
}
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Handle it by finding a new job. If they can't trust the coders, who can they trust.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Fortunately (for me  ) my last adventure with Symantec was about 10 years ago when it was common for it to lock and scan files frequently... for example during compilation resulting in constant failing builds.
Fortunately we get permission back then to exclude source folders from "protection"
Looking at your story nothing really changed in their "development friendly" practices.
--
"My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
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