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It's the same product just different quantities.
The most expensive tool is a cheap tool. Gareth Branwyn
JaxCoder.com
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I've run into this myself a time or two, but never to this extreme. The worst I'd seen was the cost for 2 items triple that of 1 and the increase for 3 and beyond to track more or less linearly from there.
Sometimes a different vendor in the Amazon Marketplace has different pricing options too.
The last one I saw was single item $6, bundle of 4 $32. Ok, I'll take 4 singles please. Nope - quantity limited to 3 per order. Fine, I'll take 3 then. A month later and the bundles are slightly cheaper than 4 singles.
It's definitely Caveat Emptor out there!
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So the parent corporate company is requiring us to install this stuff.
From their website:
Quote: Device Idle Time
-Checks the device for any mouse or keyboard activity, and the idle time is reported on Device Overview.
I'm installing it on the actual laptop owned by the company, which I hardly ever use, as I have a much more powerful laptop. 
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If they have a keystroke monitor you could employ your cat (or borrow OG's cat) to mess with their statistics even more 
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Craig Robbins wrote: you could employ your cat (or borrow OG's cat)
I have a cat, and he's a good typist. For a cat!
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Already ordered - but the one with the on/off button.
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Since you're not using their laptop to monitor your idle time will they require you to wear a water cooler proximity sensor?
The most expensive tool is a cheap tool. Gareth Branwyn
JaxCoder.com
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True story:
Back when I wrote vessel navigation software we had a request to detect when the captain/pilots left the chair. A few months after we implemented it we heard that most of the ships had oscillating fans on the bridge.
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The connection between an oscillating fan and someone seated or leaving a seat is lost on me
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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We were detecting motion, after a length of time without motion an alarm would sound.
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Thanks, so the fan would rustle papers and trigger motion or rather the fan being in frame and moving would trigger motion detection?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: fan being in frame and moving would trigger motion
This.
There was an idea put forward to detect heat but we figured they would find a way to get around that so never bothered. This was decades ago, I'm sure the young engineers today are using something more modern.
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I have written some motion detection software that works with webcams that I wrote around 14 years ago.
I think modern cpu power has made detecting people, over other moving objects, much easier and more reliable.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Honestly think about the fact that they need to know you are "moving your mouse & typing".
It absolutely means that they have no idea what you actually produce. It means that they only want to prove that you are sitting at your desk, not producing quality work.
However, the most important thing it proves is :
How terrible their project planning, understanding of resource usage & what it actually takes to do any real work is.
The fact that they want this software is actually proof that Upper Management through middle management (who plan & provide work) actually have no idea if you are :
1) lazy, doing nothing
2) getting results
This would never work in my company, because our managers are so daft that I send them a project plan, requirements analysis & show them how we can build the actual product...
...and then I wait weeks or months before they ever answer. What would I be typing in the mean time?
For fox sake!!! 🦊
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Marc Clifton wrote: parent corporate company
So this is a one shoe fits all effort, you will now be assessed on the same standards as the office drone!
Just ignore it, if they ever query you on it point to your output and the endorsement of your immediate manager (and your salary package).
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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A cheap watch with a second hand on which to sit the mouse, should keep get some movement every minute or so.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Just tell 'em you use speech-to-text.
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...Bell Labs stared one of my repos... I mean that BellLabs 
Mircea
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You may know that flights are a problem with UK airlines at the moment, since they are very short on staff (and that's because they didn't want to pay them while lockdown was in progress I suspect)
Well ... the staff they need are laregley "airside" - working in the area where the planes are, past the customs desks - so the staff need to have background checks.
So does Herself - she works in an old folk's home, so she has to have a CRB / DSA every three years and it was due this year. So in February, she applied. And they came back to her today with instructions on how to have her documents verified ... four months to the day from the initial online application.
So, if you are in the UK, don't expect the airport fun and games to even start to clear up this side of Christmas ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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