Bean counters consider engineers and IT workers to be fungible, so they like to boost quarterly profits by getting rid of experienced company employees and filling the seats with much less expensive and less experienced contractors who don't fully understand the jobs they are filling. No idea if that's what happened at NYSE and United, but I've seen it happen other places and result in "glitches".
Don't worry, they are going to give you a free trial of credit monitoring... The credit monitoring company probably even gives them a kickback for referring 80 million potential new customers after the 1 year trial subscription expires!
I want an open source platform that doesn't have to be "jail broken" to make it work the way I desire and get rid of the bullshit that marketing snakes decided to inflict upon me.
I work in a small town with a very small number of high tech employers. The place across town posted a job with extremely specific job requirements that happened to align perfectly with my resume... I applied for the job and immediately received a back channel request to withdraw my application because the job opening was posted for a temporary foreign worker they had who had to be given a permanent position or go home... Apparently they were required to post the job and could only hire her if there were no qualified applicants who were US citizens...
It's a small town, I didn't want to burn bridges, and already had a good job so I withdrew but I wonder how often this happens where the applicant for the fake job does not get a heads up and has his time wasted interviewing for a fake job opening...
The problem was that he was not evil. He is a good person who had moral problems with the evil that his employer was engaged in.
The lesson for the NSA is to only hire evil people if they need to do evil things. They need to screen out good people of conscience and hire sociopaths.
Given their track record, anything the NSA says should be considered to be a lie. Therefore, if they say Snowden used his 1337 h4x0r skillz to break the rules, it is a safe bet that he did not do anything of the sort and the NSA is just fabricating a story to pacify lawmakers asking how this could happen.
Since they commit perjury in front of Congress with impunity, lying to reporters wouldn't even be a blip on a NSA spin-doctor's moral radar.
"Protect Whistleblowers: Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance. Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government. Obama will ensure that federal agencies expedite the process for reviewing whistleblower claims and whistleblowers have full access to courts and due process."
"Normal" office computers don't need hard drives at all. They don't need powerful CPUs or GPUs either. If the users could be weaned off of MS Office, a Raspberry Pi and network storage would probably meet the needs of the "normal office computers, not running data-centric applications" in Seagate's research.
When confronted with a multi-page contract from a phone company or dentist or whatever, I have been writing "toolong didntread" on the signature line.... No one has said a thing about comment-as-signature.
I wonder what a court would think of that along with testimony that the contract was sprung on me at the point of sale, and, as it is not practical or convenient to stop a small, routine transaction in order to seek legal advice, most people, including myself do not read the contracts.
Yes, we all know that it's Bush's fault, doesn't that go without saying at this point?
I'm not sure what Bush has to do with Obama trotting out this extralegal Climate Change agenda that he knows will accomplish precisely nothing as far as actual Climate Change is concerned.
How could anyone miss the fact that this is a classic use of the bully pulpit to distract a bunch of mouth breathers from the avalanche of deadly serious scandals that make Watergate pale in comparison?
This has nothing to do with saving the planet. It's a totally transparent (!) and cynical attempt to change the subject away from the web of scandals entangling Obama.
The problem with all of this laws which are ostensibly aimed at stopping "gun violence" is that they focus on the gun, not the violence.
The elephant in the room is that people, not guns, commit violence acts and no one is willing to talk about the very small demographic which is responsible for the vast majority of murders and mayhem (using guns or not) in this country.
So instead of honest people addressing the real problem, we have pandering politicians willing to shred the 1st and 2nd Amendments for political gain.
The frustrating thing is that a high cap magazine ban would do nothing to address either violent crime in general or mass shootings by madmen.
Lets say they limit magazines to 7 rounds. What is the response time of the police? 30 minutes? Even if it was a superhuman 5 minutes, a not particularly skilled shooter can change mags and get off an aimed shot in 3-4 seconds. Lets say he's firing aimed shots at a rate of one every 3 seconds.
So our insane teenager who was taking drugs to keep his psychosis under control can fire 92 aimed shots using 17 round magazines but only 84 shots using 7 round magazines....
Clearly limiting mag capacity has nothing to do with stopping mass murders by insane people, so what is the point?
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Bean counters consider engineers and IT workers to be fungible, so they like to boost quarterly profits by getting rid of experienced company employees and filling the seats with much less expensive and less experienced contractors who don't fully understand the jobs they are filling. No idea if that's what happened at NYSE and United, but I've seen it happen other places and result in "glitches".
I must be using it wrong then because Glassdoor sends me dozens of irrelevant job listings every day,
Don't worry, they are going to give you a free trial of credit monitoring... The credit monitoring company probably even gives them a kickback for referring 80 million potential new customers after the 1 year trial subscription expires!
I want an open source platform that doesn't have to be "jail broken" to make it work the way I desire and get rid of the bullshit that marketing snakes decided to inflict upon me.
Being able to swap radio modules could be fantastic if it reduces the friction involved in switching carriers.
Being able to swap radio modules could be fantastic if it reduces the friction involved in switching carriers.
He should call for a ban on illegal file sharing too.... oh... wait.. What an impotent petty little tyrant.
I work in a small town with a very small number of high tech employers. The place across town posted a job with extremely specific job requirements that happened to align perfectly with my resume... I applied for the job and immediately received a back channel request to withdraw my application because the job opening was posted for a temporary foreign worker they had who had to be given a permanent position or go home... Apparently they were required to post the job and could only hire her if there were no qualified applicants who were US citizens... It's a small town, I didn't want to burn bridges, and already had a good job so I withdrew but I wonder how often this happens where the applicant for the fake job does not get a heads up and has his time wasted interviewing for a fake job opening...
They sure voted in 2008.... Hope and Change... Astrology... what's the difference?
Explains the government we have.
My understanding is that they provide an easy way to convert your bitcoins to USD during checkout.
I thought reading the article was a violation of Slashdot rules...
Can't have cheap apps cutting into the business of big campaign donors.
A 2 year old "text inflation" bug (not really a bug, more like a horribly flawed feature) renders the Android version totally unusable for me. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707195
The problem was that he was not evil. He is a good person who had moral problems with the evil that his employer was engaged in. The lesson for the NSA is to only hire evil people if they need to do evil things. They need to screen out good people of conscience and hire sociopaths.
Given their track record, anything the NSA says should be considered to be a lie. Therefore, if they say Snowden used his 1337 h4x0r skillz to break the rules, it is a safe bet that he did not do anything of the sort and the NSA is just fabricating a story to pacify lawmakers asking how this could happen. Since they commit perjury in front of Congress with impunity, lying to reporters wouldn't even be a blip on a NSA spin-doctor's moral radar.
Alt-F4 works even better!
"Protect Whistleblowers: Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance. Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government. Obama will ensure that federal agencies expedite the process for reviewing whistleblower claims and whistleblowers have full access to courts and due process."
"Normal" office computers don't need hard drives at all. They don't need powerful CPUs or GPUs either. If the users could be weaned off of MS Office, a Raspberry Pi and network storage would probably meet the needs of the "normal office computers, not running data-centric applications" in Seagate's research.
When confronted with a multi-page contract from a phone company or dentist or whatever, I have been writing "toolong didntread" on the signature line.... No one has said a thing about comment-as-signature. I wonder what a court would think of that along with testimony that the contract was sprung on me at the point of sale, and, as it is not practical or convenient to stop a small, routine transaction in order to seek legal advice, most people, including myself do not read the contracts.
Yes, we all know that it's Bush's fault, doesn't that go without saying at this point?
I'm not sure what Bush has to do with Obama trotting out this extralegal Climate Change agenda that he knows will accomplish precisely nothing as far as actual Climate Change is concerned.
How could anyone miss the fact that this is a classic use of the bully pulpit to distract a bunch of mouth breathers from the avalanche of deadly serious scandals that make Watergate pale in comparison?
This has nothing to do with saving the planet. It's a totally transparent (!) and cynical attempt to change the subject away from the web of scandals entangling Obama.
African swallow wings were easy to google without getting swamped in pr0n since no one fetishizes that... Wait... now they do!
The problem with all of this laws which are ostensibly aimed at stopping "gun violence" is that they focus on the gun, not the violence. The elephant in the room is that people, not guns, commit violence acts and no one is willing to talk about the very small demographic which is responsible for the vast majority of murders and mayhem (using guns or not) in this country. So instead of honest people addressing the real problem, we have pandering politicians willing to shred the 1st and 2nd Amendments for political gain.
The frustrating thing is that a high cap magazine ban would do nothing to address either violent crime in general or mass shootings by madmen. Lets say they limit magazines to 7 rounds. What is the response time of the police? 30 minutes? Even if it was a superhuman 5 minutes, a not particularly skilled shooter can change mags and get off an aimed shot in 3-4 seconds. Lets say he's firing aimed shots at a rate of one every 3 seconds. So our insane teenager who was taking drugs to keep his psychosis under control can fire 92 aimed shots using 17 round magazines but only 84 shots using 7 round magazines.... Clearly limiting mag capacity has nothing to do with stopping mass murders by insane people, so what is the point?