I didn't say the rich people give a shit about what the rest of us do on airplanes, I'm just saying that they have a completely and utterly different air travel experience than the rest of us. For the.1%, air travel is a sanctuary. For the rest of us, it's a miserable experience. For the.1%, air travel goes exactly where they want to go, when they want to go there. For the rest of us, we fly by the schedule the airlines sell us, often tolerating long layovers and random interruptions. For the.1%, seats are comfortable, and they can move around in the cabin when they feel like it. For the rest of us, we lose another 1/4" of leg room every time we fly, our seats recline 2 degrees less than the previous time, and walking to a lavatory that makes a Yugo look like a Bugatti is our only opportunity to stretch.
You want to invade privacy of others to build an evidence haystack to search for modern-wrongs, or even the not-yet-wrongs to which I alluded.
You're putting words into my mouth here. Please slow down and consider reading what I write instead of making your own assumptions about me.
If someone is in your house, do they have an automatic right to privacy when they are in your living room? The airlines are providing a service to the customer. The customer has a choice to go elsewhere if they wish, or to just not fly at all if they want. The provider of the service has the right to look out for their own investment as well.
You say, "I need to spy, to save my wealth."
So then should doorbell cameras be outlawed? How about peepholes in doors? Should we not be allowed to have cameras on our phones either? How about dashcams on cars? Where does the expectation of privacy outweigh the value of personal and property protection?
Or can you provide an example of any other business - aside from perhaps a lawyer's or doctor's office - where you would have an expectation of privacy? Every major retailer has surveillance cameras all over the place, same with every gas station, grocery store, and restaurant.
Maybe hes one of the targetees and doesn't yet know.
Not at $350, I'm not. I've barely spent $350 on shoes for myself in the past five years, I'm certainly not going to spend that much on one pair. That and I likely don't own a phone new enough to pair with them anyways, so they likely wouldn't be worth anything to me since apparently you cannot tie them yourself.
What if the shoe was on the other foot? Imagine if you were the owner of the airline; wouldn't you want to have the ability to watch the people who are on your planes so you can see how seat 12B was damaged on a previous flight? It can also be a defensive maneuver for the airline; if a passenger accuses staff of being rude or offensive, the camera footage would be an unbiased account.
Ultimately though you as part of the traveling public have other choices. You can pick a different airline. You can take a train or a boat, or you can drive yourself. If you don't feel the airlines meet your expectations of privacy - even though you are using their property - then feel free to not use them at all.
It's also worth noting that this is something that is reserved for us poor, common folks. The rich - and those who are skilled at pretending to be rich - fly on private aircraft and don't have to worry about this. They also don't have to worry about airport security and seldom have to deal with airport parking.
I get that privacy should be expected in certain places. But on a airline, you already have a seat that is assigned to you. You will be in that seat for most of your journey. If you really need privacy for something while flying, you can use the lavatory for that. What are you concerned about someone seeing you doing while you're on a plane? We have security cameras on many public buses and trains, and airplanes are not that different in their current application.
If you really want to put some electric tape over it to make yourself feel better while in flight, go for it. But why are we expecting privacy from a company that already has a lot of personal information on us?
I can't say I've ever had a day where I've felt a need to adjust the tension of my shoe laces multiple times. Nor have I really found a time where I couldn't just get it right myself and get out the door. Who is this product really targeting? I could see it being useful for people with mobility issues or diabetes perhaps - as they may have serious disabilities that would impair their ability to tie their own shoes - but that doesn't seem to be Nike's target audience here.
Now I can run an operating system that drastically impedes productivity on hardware that should never be considered sufficient to run it. Is this just Microsoft trying to out-NetBSD the netBSD folks?
Prices on Raspberry Pi boards have gone up noticeably (as have various kits sold with the Pi boards in them) in the past few months. Along with prices on other consumer goods that have also risen since November, this is likely the tariffs at work.
To be honest, MS is often poorly compatible with MS. Compatibility is not the reason they exist.
The reason MS - and MS Office in particular - exists is because it gives businesses an out if something goes awry. If I'm at business ABC and I get an important Office document from a customer from business DEF, I need to be able to show that I'm doing everything reasonable to open it. If it came in Office format and I have the latest version of MS Office, I can check that box even if the document eats shit and is completely unreadable. However if they send it to me and I have libreoffice (or any other non-MS Office suite) and can't open it, that is my fault. And there is money on the line, so I had best make sure I do everything I can to prevent cross-incompatibility.
You, and several others, are extremely left leaning, which is not a problem at all here, but you are mindlessly left leaning... and that IS a problem.
That's a really significant assumption that you just made based on a single comment. It appears that you got there based solely on the fact that I wrote something you disagree with - and yet you are claiming that I am "mindless" and that I "refuse to independently think".
Anyone is welcome as long they engage honestly
I haven't seen you show any honest attempt to engage this topic with me. You went pretty quickly to lobbing insults at me rather than actually discussing the topic at hand. We could take a couple steps back here and talk about how the Foxconn project was already falling apart well before election day, how the projected cost to the state went up repeatedly, how the projected number of jobs from it went down with each revision from Foxconn before election day, etc. Or you can keep insulting me if you so choose. The latter path does nothing towards you trying to claim a willingness to "engage honestly" - or is that just not required when you are in a discussion with someone who you disagree with?
but conservatives here are not Conservatives.
You can split that hair however you like, but the fact of the matter is that the editorial voice here at slashdot - as indicated by the choice of front page political stories and the summaries that go with them - is indisputably right-wing. And if we look at how comments get moderated here - which reflects the population of people who read and post enough here to earn moderation points - we see the same. Nobody was allowed to blame anything on Trump in the first month after his inauguration, and yet here we see an article that is blaming something on Wisconsin governor Tony Evers less than a month after his inauguration. The only difference is the letter after their name.
The GOP in Wisconsin did everything they could to undermine democracy and the will of the voters. However it was abundantly clear before the election that Walker's deal with Foxconn was all but dead regardless of how the election were to go; now that we see that reality coming to bear they are quick to lay blame at the feet of the opposition that has had no opportunity yet to do anything about it.
It's no surprise that the conservative voice here on drudgedot couldn't pass on including the GOP opinion on the matter.
No. Nobody had to do it. Nobody is harmed by him doing it, but nothing important would have been lost had he chosen not to do it. We still could have read about these older programs (by his own admission he doesn't run most of them, and many are likely inoperable due to the media they are on) and been just as well off. He does comment about how much he loves the documentation; likely the most useful thing he could do then would be to scan the documentation (and maybe the boxes as well) and post the scans somewhere to be seen. A few pictures of his office doesn't do a whole lot.
Believe it or not, labor costs are rarely the biggest factor.
It always surprises me how many people have a hard time grasping this simple fact. It is especially true when we are talking about something like a screw that is produced in batches that reach - at least - into the range of 100s of pieces per hour. Nobody is spending a significant amount of time per unit on this; not in design, not in manufacturing, not in QC. It is all automated. Often these end up being produced overseas not because the cost savings is significant but because the buyers didn't bother looking for a supplier in this country and potential manufacturers in this country didn't know there was a demand for this particular component. In the case of this particular screw, regulations are not a huge impact either (in comparison to say screws for medical, military, or space applications).
Neither link shows a picture of the actual screw. Don't tease me about it, just show us a damned picture to tell us why this screw is so important and hard to produce.
Waiting for a factual part of your argument, here...
Trackpads with multitouch let you rotate
What exactly are you rotating? I can't think of a use for that function in my daily existence though you could be in a very different field than I am.
and zoom
That is a trivial function to set up for whatever pointing device you want or need to use.
trackpoints don't scroll either
You are absolutely 100% wrong on that one. I've been able to scroll with trackpoints for over a decade. Map it to the third button and scroll away on either axis.
Trackpoints get in the way while you're typing
I have never once had a trackpoint get in my way. I have had a great many touchpads get in my way though. My thumb rests on the spacebar and the first knuckle hits the touchpad - away my mouse cursor goes. I've seen that on every touchpad since they were first implemented on laptops.
I have massive hands
I can't fit my mitts into gloves less than XL size, I can hold a 12oz can of soda on end between my thumb and index finger with room to spare. Not once have I had a problem with a trackpoint when typing.
around 75 WPM at 99%
I typed my thesis - averaging 60 wpm - on a model M with a trackpoint. Not once did the trackpoint interfere. I was touch typing before anyone ever heard of Mavis Beacon.
That's your problem right there. Touchpads are fucking evil and cause more problems than they have ever solved. I will never understand why people love them so much and why so many companies insist on offering them as the only option for moving the cursor on a laptop. Trackpoints are vastly superior options that move only when you want them to and require far less movement to cross the screen (among other benefits).
the rabies by itself is the real problem. And the problem for bats being seen as carriers of disease.
Indeed population studies have shown that bats carry rabies at roughly the same rate as common squirrels. The difference is that a bat is more likely to be noticed in the day time (when more people are paying attention to animals), which is a time that rabid bats are more likely to be out and running around. Conversely squirrels are usually out doing normal squirrel things during daylight hours so the rabid ones are drowned out by the activity of the non-rabid ones during the daylight hours.
If you read far enough into the article you'll find the bat that tested positive was a greater long-fingered bat. It's worth noting that these are nocturnal insectivores; they will do everything they can to avoid human contact. In fact the article mentions
People in many parts of the world eat bats, and may be infected while catching or preparing them for cooking. Hunters and cooks may not be able to tell one bat species from another.
In other words if the bats - and it should be stressed that only one tested positive out of five thousand tested bats - are a meaningful vector for Ebola, the best thing to do to prevent further infection would be to leave them alone.
College degrees aren't brains. Repeat it as long as it takes until you get it.
I made no such claim. I merely said that a college degree is a really easy filter for HR to employ for automatically filtering out job applicants. I even stated it is at times not the best one. However verifying skill is much more work than verifying education, so as much as there is justification for changing the method it is not likely to happen any time too soon.
Maybe not, but you still don't get it.
It looks like the one who doesn't get it is you.
Trusting a piece of paper is a fools folly.
I very plainly explained why education is used as a way to determine the qualification of an applicant. There is an open opportunity here though to show a better way. If you are such a great programmer you could write that better way into an HR application and retire young from the profit as large companies would be breaking down your door to pay you for it.
That and a lot of advanced degrees are supported by more than just the paper they are printed on; many masters and doctoral programs now require publication of peer reviewed work. This peer reviewed work often ends up going into open access journals that any employer could download and review if they wanted to.
My district replaced a congressman in 2018 who only held 2 in-person town hall meetings in his last 2 terms in congress. If giving them remote access to their duties in DC would lead to them spending more time with their constituents - not just their sponsors and handlers - then I'd favor it. Otherwise if they're just doing it to avoid interacting with their colleagues in person then no.
College degrees aren't brains. Repeat it as long as it takes until you get it.
I made no such claim. I merely said that a college degree is a really easy filter for HR to employ for automatically filtering out job applicants. I even stated it is at times not the best one. However verifying skill is much more work than verifying education, so as much as there is justification for changing the method it is not likely to happen any time too soon.
I know this is being implemented in China as part of their system, but something like this could potentially be valuable at bringing an end to our current housing bubble. Too many people spend a lot of time drinking the kool-aid that is served up 24/7 on HGTV (and other Realtor advertising networks) and have allowed themselves to fall back into the broken thinking of houses being good investments. I would support damned near anything that would wake people out of this stupor. In the current situation going forward, the only people who will make money off of the purchase and sale of houses are the realtors and the bankers - regular people (or "homeowners") can only lose.
That said, I've dealt with the job market a few times in the past ~5 years. I can tell you that most jobs with salaries > $75k (in the job markets where I work where this is well above the median and easily a comfortable existence for a single person) are posted in ways that are intended to filter our applicants as quickly as possible. One very quick and easy filter for HR to select is education. While it is not always a great way to find who is qualified it is probably the best that they can easily use and verify.
If an applicant says they have a college degree, it is pretty easy for the employer to verify this. But if they say they have worked on model ABC123 advanced frobulators for 7 years, that is more difficult to verify. Now if the applicant can point to something they have done - say a patent or a published article - relating to the ABC123 advanced frobulator, that becomes something that the employer can verify more easily again. Unfortunately the application processes at most large (and many medium or small) employers are behind the curve on doing this type of verification. At the same time it doesn't seem that companies want to put more than the minimum amount of human activity into human resources, so we're left with what we can do to either fit into the system or attempt to circumvent it. Tragically the latter works less and less well with many companies as time goes on.
I have yet to work for an employer where the glassdoor rating meant much in comparison to my own experience with said employer. Really large employers are generally so fragmented that the only way to really evaluate them is in parts (particularly in finding the part that matters for your own work) and seeing how employees there view it. Smaller employers won't get many glassdoor reviews because the employees would be identified too easily. This leaves medium sized employers? Yeah, when they're hiring for my line of work I might look at glassdoor for them again - though I trust my direct sources more than anonymous glassdoor users anyways.
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I didn't say the rich people give a shit about what the rest of us do on airplanes, I'm just saying that they have a completely and utterly different air travel experience than the rest of us. For the .1%, air travel is a sanctuary. For the rest of us, it's a miserable experience. For the .1%, air travel goes exactly where they want to go, when they want to go there. For the rest of us, we fly by the schedule the airlines sell us, often tolerating long layovers and random interruptions. For the .1%, seats are comfortable, and they can move around in the cabin when they feel like it. For the rest of us, we lose another 1/4" of leg room every time we fly, our seats recline 2 degrees less than the previous time, and walking to a lavatory that makes a Yugo look like a Bugatti is our only opportunity to stretch.
You want to invade privacy of others to build an evidence haystack to search for modern-wrongs, or even the not-yet-wrongs to which I alluded.
You're putting words into my mouth here. Please slow down and consider reading what I write instead of making your own assumptions about me.
If someone is in your house, do they have an automatic right to privacy when they are in your living room? The airlines are providing a service to the customer. The customer has a choice to go elsewhere if they wish, or to just not fly at all if they want. The provider of the service has the right to look out for their own investment as well.
You say, "I need to spy, to save my wealth."
So then should doorbell cameras be outlawed? How about peepholes in doors? Should we not be allowed to have cameras on our phones either? How about dashcams on cars? Where does the expectation of privacy outweigh the value of personal and property protection?
Or can you provide an example of any other business - aside from perhaps a lawyer's or doctor's office - where you would have an expectation of privacy? Every major retailer has surveillance cameras all over the place, same with every gas station, grocery store, and restaurant.
Maybe hes one of the targetees and doesn't yet know.
Not at $350, I'm not. I've barely spent $350 on shoes for myself in the past five years, I'm certainly not going to spend that much on one pair. That and I likely don't own a phone new enough to pair with them anyways, so they likely wouldn't be worth anything to me since apparently you cannot tie them yourself.
What if the shoe was on the other foot? Imagine if you were the owner of the airline; wouldn't you want to have the ability to watch the people who are on your planes so you can see how seat 12B was damaged on a previous flight? It can also be a defensive maneuver for the airline; if a passenger accuses staff of being rude or offensive, the camera footage would be an unbiased account.
Ultimately though you as part of the traveling public have other choices. You can pick a different airline. You can take a train or a boat, or you can drive yourself. If you don't feel the airlines meet your expectations of privacy - even though you are using their property - then feel free to not use them at all.
It's also worth noting that this is something that is reserved for us poor, common folks. The rich - and those who are skilled at pretending to be rich - fly on private aircraft and don't have to worry about this. They also don't have to worry about airport security and seldom have to deal with airport parking.
I get that privacy should be expected in certain places. But on a airline, you already have a seat that is assigned to you. You will be in that seat for most of your journey. If you really need privacy for something while flying, you can use the lavatory for that. What are you concerned about someone seeing you doing while you're on a plane? We have security cameras on many public buses and trains, and airplanes are not that different in their current application.
If you really want to put some electric tape over it to make yourself feel better while in flight, go for it. But why are we expecting privacy from a company that already has a lot of personal information on us?
I can't say I've ever had a day where I've felt a need to adjust the tension of my shoe laces multiple times. Nor have I really found a time where I couldn't just get it right myself and get out the door. Who is this product really targeting? I could see it being useful for people with mobility issues or diabetes perhaps - as they may have serious disabilities that would impair their ability to tie their own shoes - but that doesn't seem to be Nike's target audience here.
Now I can run an operating system that drastically impedes productivity on hardware that should never be considered sufficient to run it. Is this just Microsoft trying to out-NetBSD the netBSD folks?
Prices on Raspberry Pi boards have gone up noticeably (as have various kits sold with the Pi boards in them) in the past few months. Along with prices on other consumer goods that have also risen since November, this is likely the tariffs at work.
Compatibility is the only reason MS still exists.
To be honest, MS is often poorly compatible with MS. Compatibility is not the reason they exist.
The reason MS - and MS Office in particular - exists is because it gives businesses an out if something goes awry. If I'm at business ABC and I get an important Office document from a customer from business DEF, I need to be able to show that I'm doing everything reasonable to open it. If it came in Office format and I have the latest version of MS Office, I can check that box even if the document eats shit and is completely unreadable. However if they send it to me and I have libreoffice (or any other non-MS Office suite) and can't open it, that is my fault. And there is money on the line, so I had best make sure I do everything I can to prevent cross-incompatibility.
You, and several others, are extremely left leaning, which is not a problem at all here, but you are mindlessly left leaning... and that IS a problem.
That's a really significant assumption that you just made based on a single comment. It appears that you got there based solely on the fact that I wrote something you disagree with - and yet you are claiming that I am "mindless" and that I "refuse to independently think".
Anyone is welcome as long they engage honestly
I haven't seen you show any honest attempt to engage this topic with me. You went pretty quickly to lobbing insults at me rather than actually discussing the topic at hand. We could take a couple steps back here and talk about how the Foxconn project was already falling apart well before election day, how the projected cost to the state went up repeatedly, how the projected number of jobs from it went down with each revision from Foxconn before election day, etc. Or you can keep insulting me if you so choose. The latter path does nothing towards you trying to claim a willingness to "engage honestly" - or is that just not required when you are in a discussion with someone who you disagree with?
but conservatives here are not Conservatives.
You can split that hair however you like, but the fact of the matter is that the editorial voice here at slashdot - as indicated by the choice of front page political stories and the summaries that go with them - is indisputably right-wing. And if we look at how comments get moderated here - which reflects the population of people who read and post enough here to earn moderation points - we see the same. Nobody was allowed to blame anything on Trump in the first month after his inauguration, and yet here we see an article that is blaming something on Wisconsin governor Tony Evers less than a month after his inauguration. The only difference is the letter after their name.
The GOP in Wisconsin did everything they could to undermine democracy and the will of the voters. However it was abundantly clear before the election that Walker's deal with Foxconn was all but dead regardless of how the election were to go; now that we see that reality coming to bear they are quick to lay blame at the feet of the opposition that has had no opportunity yet to do anything about it.
It's no surprise that the conservative voice here on drudgedot couldn't pass on including the GOP opinion on the matter.
... someone has to do it.
No. Nobody had to do it. Nobody is harmed by him doing it, but nothing important would have been lost had he chosen not to do it. We still could have read about these older programs (by his own admission he doesn't run most of them, and many are likely inoperable due to the media they are on) and been just as well off. He does comment about how much he loves the documentation; likely the most useful thing he could do then would be to scan the documentation (and maybe the boxes as well) and post the scans somewhere to be seen. A few pictures of his office doesn't do a whole lot.
Believe it or not, labor costs are rarely the biggest factor.
It always surprises me how many people have a hard time grasping this simple fact. It is especially true when we are talking about something like a screw that is produced in batches that reach - at least - into the range of 100s of pieces per hour. Nobody is spending a significant amount of time per unit on this; not in design, not in manufacturing, not in QC. It is all automated. Often these end up being produced overseas not because the cost savings is significant but because the buyers didn't bother looking for a supplier in this country and potential manufacturers in this country didn't know there was a demand for this particular component. In the case of this particular screw, regulations are not a huge impact either (in comparison to say screws for medical, military, or space applications).
Neither link shows a picture of the actual screw. Don't tease me about it, just show us a damned picture to tell us why this screw is so important and hard to produce.
Trackpoints are crap
No, they are not.
your argument is lame.
Waiting for a factual part of your argument, here...
Trackpads with multitouch let you rotate
What exactly are you rotating? I can't think of a use for that function in my daily existence though you could be in a very different field than I am.
and zoom
That is a trivial function to set up for whatever pointing device you want or need to use.
trackpoints don't scroll either
You are absolutely 100% wrong on that one. I've been able to scroll with trackpoints for over a decade. Map it to the third button and scroll away on either axis.
Trackpoints get in the way while you're typing
I have never once had a trackpoint get in my way. I have had a great many touchpads get in my way though. My thumb rests on the spacebar and the first knuckle hits the touchpad - away my mouse cursor goes. I've seen that on every touchpad since they were first implemented on laptops.
I have massive hands
I can't fit my mitts into gloves less than XL size, I can hold a 12oz can of soda on end between my thumb and index finger with room to spare. Not once have I had a problem with a trackpoint when typing.
around 75 WPM at 99%
I typed my thesis - averaging 60 wpm - on a model M with a trackpoint. Not once did the trackpoint interfere. I was touch typing before anyone ever heard of Mavis Beacon.
That's your problem right there. Touchpads are fucking evil and cause more problems than they have ever solved. I will never understand why people love them so much and why so many companies insist on offering them as the only option for moving the cursor on a laptop. Trackpoints are vastly superior options that move only when you want them to and require far less movement to cross the screen (among other benefits).
the rabies by itself is the real problem. And the problem for bats being seen as carriers of disease.
Indeed population studies have shown that bats carry rabies at roughly the same rate as common squirrels. The difference is that a bat is more likely to be noticed in the day time (when more people are paying attention to animals), which is a time that rabid bats are more likely to be out and running around. Conversely squirrels are usually out doing normal squirrel things during daylight hours so the rabid ones are drowned out by the activity of the non-rabid ones during the daylight hours.
People in many parts of the world eat bats, and may be infected while catching or preparing them for cooking. Hunters and cooks may not be able to tell one bat species from another.
In other words if the bats - and it should be stressed that only one tested positive out of five thousand tested bats - are a meaningful vector for Ebola, the best thing to do to prevent further infection would be to leave them alone.
College degrees aren't brains. Repeat it as long as it takes until you get it.
I made no such claim. I merely said that a college degree is a really easy filter for HR to employ for automatically filtering out job applicants. I even stated it is at times not the best one. However verifying skill is much more work than verifying education, so as much as there is justification for changing the method it is not likely to happen any time too soon.
Maybe not, but you still don't get it.
It looks like the one who doesn't get it is you.
Trusting a piece of paper is a fools folly.
I very plainly explained why education is used as a way to determine the qualification of an applicant. There is an open opportunity here though to show a better way. If you are such a great programmer you could write that better way into an HR application and retire young from the profit as large companies would be breaking down your door to pay you for it.
That and a lot of advanced degrees are supported by more than just the paper they are printed on; many masters and doctoral programs now require publication of peer reviewed work. This peer reviewed work often ends up going into open access journals that any employer could download and review if they wanted to.
My district replaced a congressman in 2018 who only held 2 in-person town hall meetings in his last 2 terms in congress. If giving them remote access to their duties in DC would lead to them spending more time with their constituents - not just their sponsors and handlers - then I'd favor it. Otherwise if they're just doing it to avoid interacting with their colleagues in person then no.
College degrees aren't brains. Repeat it as long as it takes until you get it.
I made no such claim. I merely said that a college degree is a really easy filter for HR to employ for automatically filtering out job applicants. I even stated it is at times not the best one. However verifying skill is much more work than verifying education, so as much as there is justification for changing the method it is not likely to happen any time too soon.
I know this is being implemented in China as part of their system, but something like this could potentially be valuable at bringing an end to our current housing bubble. Too many people spend a lot of time drinking the kool-aid that is served up 24/7 on HGTV (and other Realtor advertising networks) and have allowed themselves to fall back into the broken thinking of houses being good investments. I would support damned near anything that would wake people out of this stupor. In the current situation going forward, the only people who will make money off of the purchase and sale of houses are the realtors and the bankers - regular people (or "homeowners") can only lose.
Disclaimer: I have an advanced degree.
That said, I've dealt with the job market a few times in the past ~5 years. I can tell you that most jobs with salaries > $75k (in the job markets where I work where this is well above the median and easily a comfortable existence for a single person) are posted in ways that are intended to filter our applicants as quickly as possible. One very quick and easy filter for HR to select is education. While it is not always a great way to find who is qualified it is probably the best that they can easily use and verify.
If an applicant says they have a college degree, it is pretty easy for the employer to verify this. But if they say they have worked on model ABC123 advanced frobulators for 7 years, that is more difficult to verify. Now if the applicant can point to something they have done - say a patent or a published article - relating to the ABC123 advanced frobulator, that becomes something that the employer can verify more easily again. Unfortunately the application processes at most large (and many medium or small) employers are behind the curve on doing this type of verification. At the same time it doesn't seem that companies want to put more than the minimum amount of human activity into human resources, so we're left with what we can do to either fit into the system or attempt to circumvent it. Tragically the latter works less and less well with many companies as time goes on.
I have yet to work for an employer where the glassdoor rating meant much in comparison to my own experience with said employer. Really large employers are generally so fragmented that the only way to really evaluate them is in parts (particularly in finding the part that matters for your own work) and seeing how employees there view it. Smaller employers won't get many glassdoor reviews because the employees would be identified too easily. This leaves medium sized employers? Yeah, when they're hiring for my line of work I might look at glassdoor for them again - though I trust my direct sources more than anonymous glassdoor users anyways.