They get caught doing this every 10 years or so.
Happened to a family member that worked for IBM in the 90s. They laid off everyone over ~50 without allowing them to look for new positions internally. Anyone under 50 but over 45 was supposed to be allowed two weeks to search the internal job postings and apply before being let go. Incidentally the location manager where my family member was went on vacation for two weeks without giving anyone access to the job board. When the manager came back, everyone only had a day or two left before being forced out.
To make it more insulting, they were all told their positions were no longer needed and they were being downsized. But a hiring manager didn't secure their LotusNotes calendar and people being forced out were able to see interviews scheduled for new younger people for basically their jobs (same description but different title).
It took 10 years for that class action suit over ageism to finally get settled. In the early to mid 2000s there was another story about IBM pulling the ageism bit again.
And now again...
Definitely not a company that is loyal to its people...
Warner Brothers made a deal with Rotten Tomatoes a while back and at WBs request, Rotten Tomatoes will withhold reviews until the night of the premiere.
The move was slammed by critics and earned its abysmal score. There was a lot of backlash from fans at Rotten Tomatoes for not publishing the review until the premiere. It is not doing well in the box office, and its not because of the ratings. The latest DC universe save the exception of Wonder Woman, is just not doing well. The TV shows are doing better, but unlike Marvel tying everything to one universe, DC has its TV shows set in two different universes (Supergirl and then Flash/Arrow) and their Movies in a third different universe. There is no unifying tie-in. Fans of the TV shows are upset they didn't cast those actors in the movies. They are alienating and splitting their own fans. Its DC's own fault. Stop trying to blame an aggregate site.
Came to say the same thing, damn wish I had karma points to +1 you right now...
They also indicated that the highend characters couldn't be purchased with real money... So this does means its still the same grind, its a smoke screen to make people THINK they listened...
Just a couple of months ago wasn't the TSA trying to ban laptops in the cabins of aircraft from different countries? And discussing pushing it to all flights? Sure it wasn't renewed but shows where they want to go
So they don't want it in the cabin and now you cant check it... Really trying hard to kill business travel.
The ONE time I go to log into my MSDN account in months and its tossing errors, not displaying my subscriber benefits, and even more errors when I would try to look at my account.
Thought the issue was on my end - rebooted, still tossing errors... A couple of hours later I was finally able to get in. Apparently it impacted more services than the articles author even knew about...
I worked a case once where like the poster above stated, the "access time" on the files invalidated all of the evidence.
Someone reported a computer on an open network had a file share with illegal images. We tracked it down by its mac address through the switch port.
Federal agents had us accompany them to seize the computer and verify it was the same MAC address we had captured through the switch for that machine. That was enough evidence for them to seize the laptop.
During the investigation one of the officers failed to lock the drive and image it before accessing the files to look for illegal material.
I had to go testify in the case and waste a week sitting in the court room only to have the whole case thrown out on the grounds of potential tampering of data (file access times were for periods of time the device was in the Marshalls possession). The guy got off. I heard he was busted again several years later.
So as the poster stated, soon as you view that data and the access time stamp changes, YOU could be liable for that content as well. Very slippery slope.
Makes sense really, Even with Enterprise licensing, Microsoft gets expensive quick, $800 for server, etc... With the number of machines they are likely to be deploying its a HUGE savings. And the Linux systems tend to have better uptimes in my experience. I see "some" windows systems that need monthly or quarterly reboots yet have Linux and Solaris systems that have been up for over 400 days, and last reboot was only to update the kernel...
Even other Service providers are using *nix on their backend service devices. Occasionally when Comcast is acting up and you connect to a cable channel or on demand it momentarily flashes the login screen for a Fedora system. (though making that "available" is silly)
As a consultant, 4 years ago (2011) I found one client still running his whole office on an old NT 3.5 server. IT hadnt been turned off or looked at in at least 6 years.
Most ATMs and Kiosks are still running Windows XP embedded. Even though their are other options now, most of these devices are still running on Pentium III chips. They cant run the newer software and few organizations are motivated to pay the cost to replace them with faster hardware and newer software...
I started with the PalmOS phone and switched to a couple of different Windows Mobile phones... Never again. Just like the desktop versions of Windows OS, the Windows Mobile needed to be periodically rebooted.
I'd miss calls and not receive a notification of voicemail. No texts... And trouble placing a call. So decide to reboot my phone, suddenly I have 5 voice messages and a bunch of text messages flood in.
I was having to reboot the piece of crap once a week on average. Not very good for someone that worked around the clock as a consultant.
I occasionally have the same issue with my iPhone 5, my work email will stop sync'ing until i powercycle it. - Never seem to have these problems with my Android phone. The only downside there is Samsung and Sprint take forever to release updates for their products. So I'm often two Android point revs behind someone on a non-samsung Verizon phone and one point rev behind someone with a non-samsung Sprint phone...
Windows 7 Enterprise - Running several applications, large mail box, VCenter Client connected to 5 large clusters, and various other large programs used up 3gb out of 8gb availble.
Windows 10 Tech preview - Fresh install, NOTHING else running on it - used 5gb out of 8gb of RAM. Those "Metro Apps" are still using up memory and updating useless tiles that just make things look pretty. It also constantly calls out over the network looking for other systems, even more so than previous versions of windows.
Likewise, I wont buy any game until I see a review. especially now that games have jumped from $40 to $60+ not counting the added cost of DLC's.
Most single player games i wait till they have been out 6 months or so and then Steam has a sale with the whole game and all DLC's for 1/2 or less the cost of the base game when it originally came out.
Any game that doesnt have a review or is not at least 7.5/10 doesnt get a lick of my money...
Unless you are updating the Kernel there are few times you need to reboot a centos box. Unless your app has a memory leak.
The better way to go about it has already been pointed out above. Have several systems, load balance them in a pool, take one node out of the pool, work on it, return it to the pool then repeat for each remaining system. - No outage time and users are none the wiser to the update.
My company has already started to ditch Microsoft over the gaff that was Vista 2.0 (Win8x). Starting six months ago as peoples machine came up on replacement schedule we started moving everyone to Ubuntu and Libre Office. (Not really all that thrilled with Ubuntu myself...) But what we are seeing here is that even companies are now getting tired of Microsoft flops every other version. With most of our software and applications being web based these days, as long as you have a web browser that works with java script you are pretty much golden. Even in the server environment now we are running nearly 50% Solaris or Linux and 50% Windows Servers, though we are replacing Windows with Unix or Linux as we can.
There is one angle everyone here is missing. It would be cheaper to buy a new Ipad than go through a court case.
Granted Apple would like that, another sale to boost the bottom line. But why would anyone waste spending $1500 or more in basic legal and court fees for an older/used $300~$400 device.
The Marine Corps handles 90 to 95% of all "Peace Time" military actions while subsisting on the hand-me downs from the other branches and a paltry 3% of the Defense Budget. Navy Seal teams get more money for training ammo than the entire Marine Corps.
At the beginning of the 1st Gulf War, the Marines were just getting the M1 Abrahms tanks the Army was swapping out for newer models (before that the Marines were still on old M60 tanks).
In the late 90's (97-98) the Marines were just starting to get the venerable Singars radios. Up till then they were still using post-Vietnam era AN/PRC-77 radios.
Time and time again the Army goes and asks for more men and money, new gear, etc, because they state they cant accomplish the mission with what they have.
And time and time again the Marine Corps happily takes that "old outdated" equipment with fewer men and exceed... There has long been a rivalry between the branches, but maybe its time for the other branches to take a page out of the Corps manual and learn how to do more with less. You could drop military spending by half at least, if not more, by following the Marines lead.
So they are finally thinking about creating a system like in the first Total Recall movie? Granted their are technological challenges, but why didn't they push for something like this before?
Exactly, for those that care... The cable industry has gone out of their way to make people forget about OTA. I've gone camping and been places where the OTA regular 4 (Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC) digital HD channels came in just as clear if not better than they did over Cable. So why should I pay them $100 a month for channels I dont want?
Now full disclosure, I have no intenet on watching the Olympics anyways, they have gotten stale over the years to the point of outright boring. The only entertainment i've gotten out of the Olympics in years has come from the woefully unready Sochi hotels.
And it was already shown/proven that the ability to remote kill stolen phones is already possible. All current new phones have this ability. Its the CARRIERS that do not want to enable it. They make money off you buying a new phone and off selling service to whomever stole your phone.
The Carriers are the only ones fighting against this.
I went and checked out the beta site while logged in from another (older) work machine.
The interface is two dumbed down. The pictures are not necessary and the add space was drastically increased.
The little blocks of information (ala Windows 8) doesn't offer enough information. The current site I can scroll down and see the head lines and a heafty preview so I can decide if I want to explore that topic or not. The new site doesn't show enough to hook me to want to check the article. IE, no click through, less Ad impressions.
Also with the current site I can scroll down over a dozen or more articles. The new layout only had a handful on the page. Forcing us to click through and drive up Ad impressions? Most of us don't look past the first page.
A lot of other tech sites get news a day or two before Slashdot these days. I get more up to date information from theregister, and then find a recap story on Slashdot 3 days later. Its the community input that keeps the stale stories relevant. But its obvious the vast majority of the user base is against the new layout. If they leave, then wheres the incentive to come and read stale stories?
The other problem with the beta site is the over sized Ad space On a normal computer the Ads are taking up the right 1/4 of the screen. On the smaller monitor computer I was on, 1024, it was impossible to read the comment section. The strict size of the ad space scrunched up the threads leaving tons of white space to the right and only 4 to 6 words per line. Very difficult to read.
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They get caught doing this every 10 years or so.
Happened to a family member that worked for IBM in the 90s. They laid off everyone over ~50 without allowing them to look for new positions internally. Anyone under 50 but over 45 was supposed to be allowed two weeks to search the internal job postings and apply before being let go. Incidentally the location manager where my family member was went on vacation for two weeks without giving anyone access to the job board. When the manager came back, everyone only had a day or two left before being forced out.
To make it more insulting, they were all told their positions were no longer needed and they were being downsized. But a hiring manager didn't secure their LotusNotes calendar and people being forced out were able to see interviews scheduled for new younger people for basically their jobs (same description but different title).
It took 10 years for that class action suit over ageism to finally get settled. In the early to mid 2000s there was another story about IBM pulling the ageism bit again.
And now again... Definitely not a company that is loyal to its people...
Warner Brothers made a deal with Rotten Tomatoes a while back and at WBs request, Rotten Tomatoes will withhold reviews until the night of the premiere. The move was slammed by critics and earned its abysmal score. There was a lot of backlash from fans at Rotten Tomatoes for not publishing the review until the premiere. It is not doing well in the box office, and its not because of the ratings. The latest DC universe save the exception of Wonder Woman, is just not doing well. The TV shows are doing better, but unlike Marvel tying everything to one universe, DC has its TV shows set in two different universes (Supergirl and then Flash/Arrow) and their Movies in a third different universe. There is no unifying tie-in. Fans of the TV shows are upset they didn't cast those actors in the movies. They are alienating and splitting their own fans. Its DC's own fault. Stop trying to blame an aggregate site.
Came to say the same thing, damn wish I had karma points to +1 you right now... They also indicated that the highend characters couldn't be purchased with real money... So this does means its still the same grind, its a smoke screen to make people THINK they listened...
Just a couple of months ago wasn't the TSA trying to ban laptops in the cabins of aircraft from different countries? And discussing pushing it to all flights? Sure it wasn't renewed but shows where they want to go So they don't want it in the cabin and now you cant check it... Really trying hard to kill business travel.
Cut the Cable and go to streaming to save money...
More and more companies start their own steaming service and remove their shows from the existing services...
Now you'll have to subscribe to a half dozen or more streaming services to see the shows you might be interested in...
Cable prices aren't looking as crazy anymore...
I'm not going to drop $800 or even $400 for a gadget to wear on my head for so-so graphics that still requires a $2000+ computer to run.
I'd rather spend less on a larger or dual monitors.
The ONE time I go to log into my MSDN account in months and its tossing errors, not displaying my subscriber benefits, and even more errors when I would try to look at my account. Thought the issue was on my end - rebooted, still tossing errors... A couple of hours later I was finally able to get in. Apparently it impacted more services than the articles author even knew about...
I worked a case once where like the poster above stated, the "access time" on the files invalidated all of the evidence.
Someone reported a computer on an open network had a file share with illegal images. We tracked it down by its mac address through the switch port.
Federal agents had us accompany them to seize the computer and verify it was the same MAC address we had captured through the switch for that machine. That was enough evidence for them to seize the laptop.
During the investigation one of the officers failed to lock the drive and image it before accessing the files to look for illegal material.
I had to go testify in the case and waste a week sitting in the court room only to have the whole case thrown out on the grounds of potential tampering of data (file access times were for periods of time the device was in the Marshalls possession). The guy got off. I heard he was busted again several years later.
So as the poster stated, soon as you view that data and the access time stamp changes, YOU could be liable for that content as well. Very slippery slope.
Makes sense really, Even with Enterprise licensing, Microsoft gets expensive quick, $800 for server, etc... With the number of machines they are likely to be deploying its a HUGE savings. And the Linux systems tend to have better uptimes in my experience. I see "some" windows systems that need monthly or quarterly reboots yet have Linux and Solaris systems that have been up for over 400 days, and last reboot was only to update the kernel... Even other Service providers are using *nix on their backend service devices. Occasionally when Comcast is acting up and you connect to a cable channel or on demand it momentarily flashes the login screen for a Fedora system. (though making that "available" is silly)
As a consultant, 4 years ago (2011) I found one client still running his whole office on an old NT 3.5 server. IT hadnt been turned off or looked at in at least 6 years.
Most ATMs and Kiosks are still running Windows XP embedded. Even though their are other options now, most of these devices are still running on Pentium III chips. They cant run the newer software and few organizations are motivated to pay the cost to replace them with faster hardware and newer software...
This doesnt pan out (H.G.) Wells for us...
I'd miss calls and not receive a notification of voicemail. No texts... And trouble placing a call. So decide to reboot my phone, suddenly I have 5 voice messages and a bunch of text messages flood in.
I was having to reboot the piece of crap once a week on average. Not very good for someone that worked around the clock as a consultant.
I occasionally have the same issue with my iPhone 5, my work email will stop sync'ing until i powercycle it. - Never seem to have these problems with my Android phone. The only downside there is Samsung and Sprint take forever to release updates for their products. So I'm often two Android point revs behind someone on a non-samsung Verizon phone and one point rev behind someone with a non-samsung Sprint phone...
The Windows 10 Tech preview is a memory hog still
Windows 7 Enterprise - Running several applications, large mail box, VCenter Client connected to 5 large clusters, and various other large programs used up 3gb out of 8gb availble.
Windows 10 Tech preview - Fresh install, NOTHING else running on it - used 5gb out of 8gb of RAM. Those "Metro Apps" are still using up memory and updating useless tiles that just make things look pretty. It also constantly calls out over the network looking for other systems, even more so than previous versions of windows.
Likewise, I wont buy any game until I see a review. especially now that games have jumped from $40 to $60+ not counting the added cost of DLC's.
Most single player games i wait till they have been out 6 months or so and then Steam has a sale with the whole game and all DLC's for 1/2 or less the cost of the base game when it originally came out.
Any game that doesnt have a review or is not at least 7.5/10 doesnt get a lick of my money...
Unless you are updating the Kernel there are few times you need to reboot a centos box. Unless your app has a memory leak.
The better way to go about it has already been pointed out above. Have several systems, load balance them in a pool, take one node out of the pool, work on it, return it to the pool then repeat for each remaining system. - No outage time and users are none the wiser to the update.
My company has already started to ditch Microsoft over the gaff that was Vista 2.0 (Win8x). Starting six months ago as peoples machine came up on replacement schedule we started moving everyone to Ubuntu and Libre Office. (Not really all that thrilled with Ubuntu myself...) But what we are seeing here is that even companies are now getting tired of Microsoft flops every other version. With most of our software and applications being web based these days, as long as you have a web browser that works with java script you are pretty much golden. Even in the server environment now we are running nearly 50% Solaris or Linux and 50% Windows Servers, though we are replacing Windows with Unix or Linux as we can.
I wish I had mod points today... I was going to ask the same thing. Yahoo search stopped being relevant 6 or 7 years ago...
Granted Apple would like that, another sale to boost the bottom line. But why would anyone waste spending $1500 or more in basic legal and court fees for an older/used $300~$400 device.
But if you want, you can simply look up the ammo procurement and allocation break downs on the DOD website, its public domain.
At the beginning of the 1st Gulf War, the Marines were just getting the M1 Abrahms tanks the Army was swapping out for newer models (before that the Marines were still on old M60 tanks).
In the late 90's (97-98) the Marines were just starting to get the venerable Singars radios. Up till then they were still using post-Vietnam era AN/PRC-77 radios.
Time and time again the Army goes and asks for more men and money, new gear, etc, because they state they cant accomplish the mission with what they have.
And time and time again the Marine Corps happily takes that "old outdated" equipment with fewer men and exceed... There has long been a rivalry between the branches, but maybe its time for the other branches to take a page out of the Corps manual and learn how to do more with less. You could drop military spending by half at least, if not more, by following the Marines lead.
So they are finally thinking about creating a system like in the first Total Recall movie? Granted their are technological challenges, but why didn't they push for something like this before?
then staying on Earth, living out your life and dying is also tantamount to suicide too. So you are damned if you do and damned if you dont...
Exactly, for those that care... The cable industry has gone out of their way to make people forget about OTA. I've gone camping and been places where the OTA regular 4 (Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC) digital HD channels came in just as clear if not better than they did over Cable. So why should I pay them $100 a month for channels I dont want? Now full disclosure, I have no intenet on watching the Olympics anyways, they have gotten stale over the years to the point of outright boring. The only entertainment i've gotten out of the Olympics in years has come from the woefully unready Sochi hotels.
This story was ran a couple of months back.
And it was already shown/proven that the ability to remote kill stolen phones is already possible. All current new phones have this ability. Its the CARRIERS that do not want to enable it. They make money off you buying a new phone and off selling service to whomever stole your phone.
The Carriers are the only ones fighting against this.
I went and checked out the beta site while logged in from another (older) work machine. The interface is two dumbed down. The pictures are not necessary and the add space was drastically increased. The little blocks of information (ala Windows 8) doesn't offer enough information. The current site I can scroll down and see the head lines and a heafty preview so I can decide if I want to explore that topic or not. The new site doesn't show enough to hook me to want to check the article. IE, no click through, less Ad impressions. Also with the current site I can scroll down over a dozen or more articles. The new layout only had a handful on the page. Forcing us to click through and drive up Ad impressions? Most of us don't look past the first page. A lot of other tech sites get news a day or two before Slashdot these days. I get more up to date information from theregister, and then find a recap story on Slashdot 3 days later. Its the community input that keeps the stale stories relevant. But its obvious the vast majority of the user base is against the new layout. If they leave, then wheres the incentive to come and read stale stories? The other problem with the beta site is the over sized Ad space On a normal computer the Ads are taking up the right 1/4 of the screen. On the smaller monitor computer I was on, 1024, it was impossible to read the comment section. The strict size of the ad space scrunched up the threads leaving tons of white space to the right and only 4 to 6 words per line. Very difficult to read.