This just seems like an unreliable way to screen candidates and I think any HR department would be foolish to rely on such an unreliable source of information.
HR department would be delighted to have such a valuable tool to disqualify candidates. If that helps reduce the stack of applications from 500 to 50 then it's great. If that reduces the stack to zero, they have more work coming (more publications, more people to check) and that means job security. What's there for HR to complain about?
I want the pilot who does his job the best. I don't care what he does when he isn't at the controls.
As long as the nuclear plant runs well, a schizoid squirrel is fine with me.
You are right only if we assume that the pilot, or the squirrel, is always in control of his behavior. If that is so then there is no problem indeed. For example, you can have a pilot who sings country songs, badly and loudly, when in cockpit - but instantly stops and focuses on the job at hand when something happens. Such a pilot indeed knows when it's OK to have fun and when it's not OK.
But in many, if not most, cases, people can not easily switch between behaviors. Someone who does drugs at home will show up at work under the influence, sooner or later - just because of a bad judgement, and it will go downhill from there. Some say that the very fact of having an unhealthy addiction (to anything) is a sure sign that the person can not control himself.
Now, would you like to have a pilot who must have his drug injection just when he is supposed to land, or to perform some other tricky piloting job? Would you like to entrust a nuclear plant to someone who may or may not be out of his mind? We don't care how good they are when they are under control; we only need to worry how bad they are when they are not under control, and what are the chances of that loss of control happening.
businesses being able to more effectively communicate and accurately target the right customers is the worst thing that can happen
Worst or not, ads are capable of taking money away from you, and many people are weak-willed and thus vulnerable. Would you agree to be hypnotized for no good reason? Ads are just a lighter version of brainwashing.
Given that people don't need 99.99% of all advertised products, isn't it better to just say no to all ads and think for yourself when you need something?
You are correct, I am using my GMail account for very specific, well defined purposes. Not for spam, though - it's Yahoo for that:-) For example, I use gmail for some quite public mailing lists - which don't reveal anything that you can't learn from other public records.
You somehow believe that most of those children are hungry. Well, that's not so.
A very common scenario is that a family lives in a wooden house, in a small village. They have enough to eat, and they can exist just fine. However the cildren of the family have no access to any knowledge, except what the local religious figure reveals when he is in a good mood. If left alone, the children will inherit the house, and maybe build a few more, and will be just like their parents - uneducated, barely literate, and totally unaware of most of everything.
Give those children a computer, and they can research things (children will do that, when an adult would be likely too tired to be bothered with learning.) One most obvious thing that a networked computer will provide is 100% literacy on a decent level. That alone opens many doors. Then you can learn anything you want. Why the sky is blue, for example - I don't expect any village elders to know the answer to that.
A lot of time is wasted in high school learning things that don't impact on anything you will do in your life.
You need one cup of flour for a 2 lb. cake. You need a 5 lb. cake - how much flour it will require?
You are filling up your car, is there any way to tell how long it will take by looking at the gas counter?
Your mortgage rate is increasing 0.05% per day, how will it affect you?
Pretty much everything in finances, including personal finances, requires math - otherwise you won't have any finances left to worry about:-)
One of old ideas of school education was to give you the tools that you may or may not need later on. Myself, I never needed, wanted or ever used about 50% of it (such as literature, music, art etc.)
To be the best (at least in school) you have to loudly proclaim - by your knowledge and your actions - that you are above your peers. That won't gain you any friends among them. Besides, when a ridicule of learning comes from the President of the country, what do you expect the children to think?
If you're using GMail, you're likely logged in to Google every time you do a search.
Why should I do that? No, of course I don't stay logged in any more than it is necessary.
Google is unintentionally setting up a nice little trap for a bunch of people.
I don't believe that founders and managers of a multi-billion dollar enterprise are so dumb that they don't realize what they are doing. I am convinced that they are perfectly aware of all the implications - they know them better than we do, it's their business after all. Also, the government is not silent on the matter - it approached Google already, so claiming innocence won't work. Google knows damn well what it is doing, and that is to become the ultimate data warehouse for, and about, everyone on the planet. And all that data will be for sale.
The meaning of [expression] is then explained on fhe following 20 pages, in all its glory - with tests, with operators, with grouping braces, and with action options... you must be really competent to even understand what the man page is talking about, let alone to put together the correct command without trying many times.
find/tmp -name core -type f -print0 | xargs -0/bin/rm -f
That's how it looks like, according to the manual. Or even worse:
in a format that is nearly impossible to interpret without the PIN
I think by saying "nearly" they confessed that this PIN won't stop them.
For all I know, they take an arbitrarily long PIN, generate a 256-bit hash out of it, and for example zero the first 250 bits. The result is used as your secret key. Enjoy!
Russia, instead of "outspending" the USA, developed a warhead that evades the interceptors. The link was written before 2004; the warhead had been tested already. This is a low-cost, distributed response to ABM.
To be a prophesized mark, it must be accepted by choice:
He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark
An invisible laser tattoo obviously is not by choice. But an implanted RFID chip is.
It will not break. Tags are strong enough to stay within a working muscle. No implantable hardware may ever break.
And if every immigrant is forced to have a tag, and is found without one, he'd be in trouble.
It depends on your definition of trouble - compared to the trouble with having a tag in. People will not be pulling tags out just for thrills, there will be always a reason to do so. If the reason is stronger than the fear of punishment, the tag will be out the same day it went in.
"Is it cowardice, or the relative shittiness of other nations, that keeps Americans from becoming ecnomic and political refugees?"
Since there are only two possible answers, I must pick the first one. This is because there are at least several countries that are better in most aspects of living. Canada I know best - free healthcare, virtually no crime, parliamentary democracy, plenty of space and plenty of choice where to live, all paid from your 30% average income tax (and GST and PST, food & clothes excepted, IIRC.)
It is my belief that most Americans are afraid, very afraid - of everything. That includes fears of losing the job, fears of being burglarized or mugged or raped, fears of gays & lesbians, fears of $DEITY smiting them, and so on. Fears of pulling their roots out and starting a new life in another country (possibly even speaking a different language, mon Dieu!) redline their fear-o-meters. That's why I pointed out that immigrants, legal and especially illegal, from any country, are better and stronger humans. They passed a fine, strict, harsh sieve, and it weeded out all the weaklings already.
(The other possibility is that it isn't bravery that urges them across the border, but foolishness.)
They have better income here than they'd have back there, and their children are US Citizens by birth. Those are not actions of fools; they chose wisely, for the moment.
You can not just defer to the personal decision. This proposal is just plain inhuman, and floating it is just as ethical as theoretically pondering if vaporizing a couple of billions of Moslems (for example) is a good idea. Theoretically, you see, not pressing the button (yet.)
We have the most relaxed immigration policies of any modern country.
You have it backward, actually - USA has most strict immigration policies, and if you are not a family member of a US Citizen you can forget about immigrating.
No, but the RFID readers do. Every medium to large grocery store has one. You get hungry, you go buy food, you get reported as you walk in. When you walk out you may have a reception committee waiting.
I'm not sure why they're proposing putting them in immigrants, as these are legal immigrants
Because it's only a first step to putting them into everyone.
Putting them in pedophiles isn't going to do anything except allow parole officers to make sure the pedophile's identical twin isn't trying to impersonate him.
Indeed, let's spend money that we don't have trying to solve a problem that does not exist.
there aren't a lot of Americans busting their ass and risking their lives, just to be exploited as second-class citizens in Mexico
To comment on that, ask yourself a different question:
"How many US citizens would be brave enough to risk their life & limb by sneaking through a border that is guarded by people with guns who have little respect for your life?"
That's what Mexicans do. They take their life in their hands, and they are brave enough to go through all that in search of better life and better living. How many Americans fit that description? It just may be that the "home of the brave" is not where it's rumored to be.
I don't know of [m]any software packages that "doesn't function on any usable level." It may not do exactly what you want, but if someone bought Photoshop to do vector graphics, or Illustrator to run raster filters, then the buyer haven't done his homework. I would expect even the lowliest shareware apps to do some bare minimum of what the sales brochure promised.
I had some experience (encounter?) with some really buggy software, but it was so specialized (EM field simulation) and so unique and so expensive that there was no alternative. I could send it back or I could just suffer through it to get the job done. And the software manufacturer did not particularly care about the bugs because they already hold the customer by his private parts, and nothing can be done about that, short of myself writing several MLOCs of bug-free, working code overnight.
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HR department would be delighted to have such a valuable tool to disqualify candidates. If that helps reduce the stack of applications from 500 to 50 then it's great. If that reduces the stack to zero, they have more work coming (more publications, more people to check) and that means job security. What's there for HR to complain about?
You are right only if we assume that the pilot, or the squirrel, is always in control of his behavior. If that is so then there is no problem indeed. For example, you can have a pilot who sings country songs, badly and loudly, when in cockpit - but instantly stops and focuses on the job at hand when something happens. Such a pilot indeed knows when it's OK to have fun and when it's not OK.
But in many, if not most, cases, people can not easily switch between behaviors. Someone who does drugs at home will show up at work under the influence, sooner or later - just because of a bad judgement, and it will go downhill from there. Some say that the very fact of having an unhealthy addiction (to anything) is a sure sign that the person can not control himself.
Now, would you like to have a pilot who must have his drug injection just when he is supposed to land, or to perform some other tricky piloting job? Would you like to entrust a nuclear plant to someone who may or may not be out of his mind? We don't care how good they are when they are under control; we only need to worry how bad they are when they are not under control, and what are the chances of that loss of control happening.
Yes, I use CustomizeGoogle extension for ages, and it is set to maximum privacy in all option tabs.
Worst or not, ads are capable of taking money away from you, and many people are weak-willed and thus vulnerable. Would you agree to be hypnotized for no good reason? Ads are just a lighter version of brainwashing.
Given that people don't need 99.99% of all advertised products, isn't it better to just say no to all ads and think for yourself when you need something?
You are correct, I am using my GMail account for very specific, well defined purposes. Not for spam, though - it's Yahoo for that :-) For example, I use gmail for some quite public mailing lists - which don't reveal anything that you can't learn from other public records.
This must be written by a lawyer. It does not say if Google has the PIN or not.
Give those children a computer, and they can research things (children will do that, when an adult would be likely too tired to be bothered with learning.) One most obvious thing that a networked computer will provide is 100% literacy on a decent level. That alone opens many doors. Then you can learn anything you want. Why the sky is blue, for example - I don't expect any village elders to know the answer to that.
Pretty much everything in finances, including personal finances, requires math - otherwise you won't have any finances left to worry about :-)
One of old ideas of school education was to give you the tools that you may or may not need later on. Myself, I never needed, wanted or ever used about 50% of it (such as literature, music, art etc.)
To be the best (at least in school) you have to loudly proclaim - by your knowledge and your actions - that you are above your peers. That won't gain you any friends among them. Besides, when a ridicule of learning comes from the President of the country, what do you expect the children to think?
Why should I do that? No, of course I don't stay logged in any more than it is necessary.
Google is unintentionally setting up a nice little trap for a bunch of people.
I don't believe that founders and managers of a multi-billion dollar enterprise are so dumb that they don't realize what they are doing. I am convinced that they are perfectly aware of all the implications - they know them better than we do, it's their business after all. Also, the government is not silent on the matter - it approached Google already, so claiming innocence won't work. Google knows damn well what it is doing, and that is to become the ultimate data warehouse for, and about, everyone on the planet. And all that data will be for sale.
Well, you also described a crude Newton-Raphson solver.
The meaning of [expression] is then explained on fhe following 20 pages, in all its glory - with tests, with operators, with grouping braces, and with action options ... you must be really competent to even understand what the man page is talking about, let alone to put together the correct command without trying many times.
That's how it looks like, according to the manual. Or even worse:
Each command has its own programming language, with interpreter and all - isn't it crazy? Powerful - yes; understood by mere humans - no.
For all I know, they take an arbitrarily long PIN, generate a 256-bit hash out of it, and for example zero the first 250 bits. The result is used as your secret key. Enjoy!
It depends on how much of correct data you provided when you signed up.
Russia, instead of "outspending" the USA, developed a warhead that evades the interceptors. The link was written before 2004; the warhead had been tested already. This is a low-cost, distributed response to ABM.
An invisible laser tattoo obviously is not by choice. But an implanted RFID chip is.
It will not break. Tags are strong enough to stay within a working muscle. No implantable hardware may ever break.
And if every immigrant is forced to have a tag, and is found without one, he'd be in trouble.
It depends on your definition of trouble - compared to the trouble with having a tag in. People will not be pulling tags out just for thrills, there will be always a reason to do so. If the reason is stronger than the fear of punishment, the tag will be out the same day it went in.
Since there are only two possible answers, I must pick the first one. This is because there are at least several countries that are better in most aspects of living. Canada I know best - free healthcare, virtually no crime, parliamentary democracy, plenty of space and plenty of choice where to live, all paid from your 30% average income tax (and GST and PST, food & clothes excepted, IIRC.)
It is my belief that most Americans are afraid, very afraid - of everything. That includes fears of losing the job, fears of being burglarized or mugged or raped, fears of gays & lesbians, fears of $DEITY smiting them, and so on. Fears of pulling their roots out and starting a new life in another country (possibly even speaking a different language, mon Dieu!) redline their fear-o-meters. That's why I pointed out that immigrants, legal and especially illegal, from any country, are better and stronger humans. They passed a fine, strict, harsh sieve, and it weeded out all the weaklings already.
(The other possibility is that it isn't bravery that urges them across the border, but foolishness.)
They have better income here than they'd have back there, and their children are US Citizens by birth. Those are not actions of fools; they chose wisely, for the moment.
You can not just defer to the personal decision. This proposal is just plain inhuman, and floating it is just as ethical as theoretically pondering if vaporizing a couple of billions of Moslems (for example) is a good idea. Theoretically, you see, not pressing the button (yet.)
You have it backward, actually - USA has most strict immigration policies, and if you are not a family member of a US Citizen you can forget about immigrating.
No, but the RFID readers do. Every medium to large grocery store has one. You get hungry, you go buy food, you get reported as you walk in. When you walk out you may have a reception committee waiting.
I'm not sure why they're proposing putting them in immigrants, as these are legal immigrants
Because it's only a first step to putting them into everyone.
Putting them in pedophiles isn't going to do anything except allow parole officers to make sure the pedophile's identical twin isn't trying to impersonate him.
Indeed, let's spend money that we don't have trying to solve a problem that does not exist.
You can get mugged and your RFID tag removed - as far as your employer is concerned. Hard to prove otherwise, and a 1/4" long scar is easy to fake.
To comment on that, ask yourself a different question:
That's what Mexicans do. They take their life in their hands, and they are brave enough to go through all that in search of better life and better living. How many Americans fit that description? It just may be that the "home of the brave" is not where it's rumored to be.
... or for the amount of time it takes the poodle to digest the pit bull :-)
I had some experience (encounter?) with some really buggy software, but it was so specialized (EM field simulation) and so unique and so expensive that there was no alternative. I could send it back or I could just suffer through it to get the job done. And the software manufacturer did not particularly care about the bugs because they already hold the customer by his private parts, and nothing can be done about that, short of myself writing several MLOCs of bug-free, working code overnight.