No, you have to do it right. She went in and made a stink, made the entire affair about her. That's the WRONG way to do it. I've had to rat some people out in my profession before, and my approach is always the same. Gather clear and obvious evidence. Take it to which-ever superior you think is clever enough to understand it. Then play dumb as a rock... "I ran across this while doing some work... I really don't get what it means. Why would be do this or this? It seems like he intentionally did it but I don't think he'd do that!" then your desire to remain out of the subject, anonymous.
You've now given the superior permission to take full credit for the discovery. Instead of it looking like YOU are on a witch hunt and personally dislike the target, it's now your bosses show. If they don't follow through or fail in some miserable fashion, you can review their failure or reason for rejecting the idea, refine your approach and go to another superior with new data. Sometimes you don't have enough evidence. That's fine, bad people like to repeat their offenses. Sit and wait and it will happen again, this time you can be ready and collect more data.
Granted, I'm in IS. So most of my Whistle blowing involves security breaches by upper management, who think security is for us Peons... or rolling out projects with no testing... that sort of thing. So it's in the companies best interest to correct the issue immediately. I've gotten several people in much higher pay scales than I fired and I doubt more than a couple of people in the whole company have any idea I was involved.
I can't reiterate enough how important it is to remain anonymous. Even if you're successful, you don't want to be "that guy" at work that everyone knows is out to get everyone. Stay quiet, let others take the glory. This kind of glory is tainted, you don't want it.
Lol, I doubt that..22 ammunition is actually getting traded around here like money. The gunshops are generally not marking it up because they know the current shortages wont last, but all the local stores like Walmart sell out their ammo before the store even opens and then the employees sell it themselves for double or triple. I know guys that have traded guns, deer, for boxes of ammo. I think the manufacturers are right though. If they stepped up production to meet demand right now I think the market would crash pretty quickly as everyones gun safes got full. Ammo last a long time...
You enforce it after the breach. There was a DDOS attach, they investigate, find out you were running things years out of date or whatever, then the fines kick in. Much like how it's illegal to not use a seat-belt in the US. They can't really look in every car and be sure as it's driving down the road. But if you get pulled over for something else or you get into an accident that's when you usually get a ticket for it.
Then the fine makes for good evidence in a legal case against the company by whomever was attacked.
I've never been turned down for a job after I've attended the itnerview. I'm better at interviewing than I am at my job. I've also participated in hiring people and been involved in interviewing them as well and I can tell you the mistakes I see in older people that causes them to fail the interview.
1. Lie. Your application to a company is like a TV infomercial. Don't say you know C# when you've never touched it. But if say they want experience in MYSQL and you're proficient in DB2 or whatever... just lie. The hiring manager doesn't know the difference and you'll be able to figure it out quickly enough as long as you have google access. You'll have to make a judgement call here but keep in mind the hiring manage usually has no idea what he/she wants, just wrote some crap down on the application and may not even remember that you said yes to that particular part. I for example am fluent in 2 different CRM architectures. So could I admin Salesforce or Microsoft Dynamics? Of course... but the hiring manager might not understand how easy the transition would be. So, I lie... I go download some demos and work in it over a weekend, then head into the interview proficient in both. The first week I can blaim my bumbling around on just getting used to things, but after 2 I should be good to go. 2. Have a FIRM handshake when you walk in the room. If you don't know how to do it, ask a Marine. I'm not kidding, there are dozens of studies that show the way you shake hands with someone will often doom the relationship before you even talk to them. Learn how to do it correctly. 3. Ware a suit. Always. Many if not most corporations these days have a form they fill out to hand into HR. Most of its very subjective, and the interviewer gets to enter what he wants. But if they have a question "Applicants appearance" and you're a man, a suit = 10 out of 10, and everything else is 10. It's just a fact. So ware a suit no matter what. Oh, and make sure it's not 20+ years old. You can pick up a new modern suit at JC Pennies for $100. Do it. 4. For the love of God don't talk about "The old days" or "Back when I worked for IBM" I know you're trying to brag... but what it says to the interviewer is "here's a guy with a lot of entrenched methods and skills that we don't need. We're going to have to retrain all of that out of him!" Don't do it. Instead: 5. Talk about relevant, exciting new technologies. If they're looking for a people soft person, read up on it... learn what's new, what's happening to the company. Get excited about interesting new features. You want to mention at least 5 things about the software package that's new and exciting to the interviewer. That way they are thinking "Not even my best guy told me about that!" Again, I know it sounds silly but don't let pride keep you from getting paid. 6. Like someone else mentioned above, do not fill your resume with old, non-relevant things. If they need a C# dev and find out you worked as a DBA for 10 years... they then have to worry about you getting half way through a major project and then leave because you found a DBA job that pays more. If they're not looking for a DBA, don't mention that... or if they already know, play it down like that's not what you're interested in anymore. You really like coding and C#. etc...
You mean like how they currently add acetaminophen to most opiates (check out your next codeine prescription) so that if you take too much you'll suffer liver damage? If you can't lead a horse to water, just poison every other source of water in the area and that fucking horse better damn well drink the right water... if not it's the horses fault its pissing blood.
I'm sure this will really hurt their bottom line. lol I'm surprised Newegg doesn't just buy this company and fire the entire staff with extreme prejudice.
I do a lot of business with newegg. As a hobby I run a small "custom computer" business. I basically started out building computers for my familly and friends... and then it move on to "extended family and friends" and now I do between $10k and $20k in business with them per year. I don't make any profit, I just like doing it and I get lots of freebies as a result.
Newegg is by far the best retailer I've worked with. I do all of my business with them now. They even let me return downloadable software once because it wouldn't install correctly. I've returned CPUs after they were installed! Granted, they give me more leeway because I do so much business with them but they really do have decent policies and try their best to rectify any issues I have with them. Dell? HP? Crutchfield? Yea, they can all burn in hell.
How entrenched in your ideological nonsense are you? He tried to re-launch his political carer, and almost did it. But he only attracted democrats a leftist independents. The only reason he didn't run was because his attempt failed. The movie itself was actually full of inaccurate data which didn't help him at all.
Republicans jumped at the chance to make him and other democrats look like idiots. They continue to do so as the climate change debate has gotten so political at this point the Left is willing to publish any data they can find to support their case without vetting, while the right does the same. So rather than science, we now have the media publishing false claim after false claim and the general public just throwing up their hands in disgust. Either Global warming is the doom of the world and the only thing that can save us is Solar power... Or it's a made up fantasy.
And lastly, we have a solution to the problem! Nuclear power! We even have groups of climate change scientists asking the governments of the world to replace coal with nuclear power. Yet not a single democrat or republican will touch it. They like it the way it is, a black and white political issue. It's either real or not. There's no possibility that global warming is real, but just not quite as bad as Al Gore made it out to be... because that would be way to hard to describe in a 30sec political ad.
The only thing black and white about global warming is the fact that if you continue to vote for these 2 parties, you are dooming this country. Plain and simple.
And what's the percentage of those workers that are immigrants or of some religion that doesn't let them celebrate? I know we have a lot of people from India, Russia, and Thailand that all love to get the extra overtime during yet another one of your crazy US holidays. Then we have a few Jehovah Whiteness's that also like this time of year. I bet they account for well over 20% of our staff so how knows.
Secondly, most of my Turkey eating co-workers ended up having thanksgiving at various relatives houses the weekend before and after the holiday. There-for ending up with no where to go on actual turkey day. This happens nearly every year so it's become a custom at my house that I get the biggest turkey(s) (last year we had 2) I can find and invite anyone and everyone I work with (including some from other countries that just want to see what's up) to my house to eat. My mother is from a large southern family and has never been used to our northern way of having less than 10 people for dinner, so she thinks it's great. Last year we had 25 people over (only about 6 I was related to) and this year we're having about 15.
The entire point of the holiday, after all, is to get people together than generally don't get together and give thanks for all that we have. I'm lucky enough that I usually have actual Indians at my table (both kinds!) and I think it's great.
agree with you on the "ancient" multimeters. My primary is from the 1960's. Not only does it work better but it looks cool as hell, though I may be the only person that ever sees and appreciates it's aesthetics.
Another reasonable approach from might be to task, "How does our service need to change, in order for our own employees to want to use it?"
But they're right. The fact that most corporations STILL use outlook has more to do with the psychology of the staff than the actual utility of the application. Outlook sucks ass compared to even the most rudimentary webmail options out there. You have to pay for outlook! Yet any competent IT shop should be able to implement just about any open source web based mail app in a matter of weeks. Why pay millions to Microsoft when there are Free, better alternatives.
Lastly, maybe shes thinks that her staff will never be able to improve their software if they are not actually using it.
Because they spoof the credentials and enter the "national" network from one of thousands of transient VOIP service like Google. The carrier (like google) is getting the call via IP so they have no real idea where it came from and the sender claims to be calling from the US. There is NO verification of origin in standard phone services. So you could literally claim that your call was coming from the whitehouse and there would be no way to prove it wrong. You may think this is an over-site, but you'd be wrong. When these service were created it was over 100 years ago. There was no way to verify the info at that time. Then when Caller ID was introduced it was problematic. If you work for a hospital and call a patient, you don't want your desk phone showing up on their caller ID, you want the front desks phone right? So they allowed the customer to encode whatever they wanted into the caller id header.
Fast forward 40 years and voila people are abusing an aging system.
It's pretty simple. This is a screening test. It's supposed to be inaccurate as silly as that sounds. The point of it is, if there are ANY markers for the disease it's supposed to easily test positive. Then the user is supposed to go to a DOCTOR and verify the results. Even the initial tests they do in hospitals can sometimes give false positives as high as 80 to 90% of the time. So even if you do test positive, you still only have a 10% chance of actually having the disease.
Government regulation should be used to inform the public of the choices they are making to help prevent deception in the marketplace. It should not be used to prevent products the government dislikes from being made available to the public. In this case, the FDA should ask them to place clear and obvious statistics on the results of test. i.e. "You have flagged positive for suchandasuch disease. This is not a definitive diagnoses, and on average only 40% of people that get flagged on this test actually end up having the disease. Please seek a medical professional for a more definitive test and treatment if necessary"
Requiring disclosure is usually easy to comply with, welcome by nearly everyone and a non-controversial topic. If the company does not want to provide those statistics or even worse doesn't even have them yet, then I think the FDA would be in the right in telling them to stop production.
This is what copyright and patents are for... Protecting small inventors/artists from having their work stolen by someone that already has the infrastructure to take their product to market so fast that the original producer of the work has no conceivable chance of competing. So this is a rare instance where we get to see it work as it was intended. In most cases today, copyright and patents are used to stifle innovation, prevent progress and keep alive decades old business models that should have gone extinct ten years ago. Yes, Slashdot visitors have no love for the abuse of copyrights and patents, but that doesn't mean they oppose the entire concept.
Exactly right, they've decided that they should be able to pay their software engineers slightly above what McDonald's workers make. So they looked at McDonald's workers and determined they could be paid so little because there are so many of them... viola, we needs lots and lots of coders so there is more competition in the workforce and we can therefore pay them less. I don't know any company that's having trouble finding programers, but I know LOTS of programers that can't find jobs. The idea that this is some sort of noble cause they're fighting to help anyone but them selves is a joke.
I work for a phone company in the US. There's basically no way to stop these. When the call comes in, there's no way to know where it came from. Just change your number. You could do some things to try and get off their list but the fact of the matter is, if you're on their list, you're on THE list and this wont be the last problem you'll have. Your number will get sold and re-sold.
Lastly, to get targeted the way you did usually means they got a "hit" on your number... meaning one of their cons worked. If you're not already aware of them ripping you off, you should check your finances carefully to be sure they haven't already gotten some money from you. If they're calling you that much it's because they think you bit before so you'll bite again.
WOW! No wonder they're having trouble. This has to be the worst idea for a database I've ever heard of. It definitely explains the problems they've been having.
It's not quite like that. The FEC governs how elections are run here down to how campaign workers can spend their time. Due to our first amendment (which is a great amendment, don't get me wrong) anyone can pretty much give anything to a candidate. This combined with our de facto 2 party system (which is protected by the 2 parties, not the constitution) sets up the perfect pay-for-play political system. Organizations give money to candidates and expect results... and usually get them. The our media which is already reeling from financial loses to the internet gets their largest revenue from elections and political ads. The candidates spend so much money on a single campaign now that anyone not willing to except large donations with strings, has absolutely no chance of even showing up on the ballot much less getting elected. The only way they can even get on local news stations is to make statements so outlandish that the media has to put them on.
I suspect that this decision will be challenged in court and reversed based on the 1st amendment and the fact that the rest of the fed seems to be accepting it as a legit currency. Our only real hope for reform in this country is that the 2 parties eventually screw up so badly that the general populace loses faith in both them and the media that supports them. But I'm not holding my breath.
I think that, what they do well is go cross platform easy. moving C++/C# From windows, to mac to linux is hard, takes time. But webapps generally work anywhere. I agree that JS, CSS and HTML are a pain in the ass... I'd love to see something new that compared to C# in ease of coding and power, but had the interoperability of JS. I myself will stick with the more robust languages. I still learning and not a great coder yet so all the wishy washynes of JS, etc... drive me nuts.
Whats even more interesting is that even the least dense gas in the sun, Hydrogen plasma, is compressed so ridiculously high because of the intense gravity that it's denser than lead. Think about that, and then think what the iron in the star must be like.
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No, you have to do it right. She went in and made a stink, made the entire affair about her. That's the WRONG way to do it. I've had to rat some people out in my profession before, and my approach is always the same. Gather clear and obvious evidence. Take it to which-ever superior you think is clever enough to understand it. Then play dumb as a rock... "I ran across this while doing some work... I really don't get what it means. Why would be do this or this? It seems like he intentionally did it but I don't think he'd do that!" then your desire to remain out of the subject, anonymous.
You've now given the superior permission to take full credit for the discovery. Instead of it looking like YOU are on a witch hunt and personally dislike the target, it's now your bosses show. If they don't follow through or fail in some miserable fashion, you can review their failure or reason for rejecting the idea, refine your approach and go to another superior with new data. Sometimes you don't have enough evidence. That's fine, bad people like to repeat their offenses. Sit and wait and it will happen again, this time you can be ready and collect more data.
Granted, I'm in IS. So most of my Whistle blowing involves security breaches by upper management, who think security is for us Peons... or rolling out projects with no testing... that sort of thing. So it's in the companies best interest to correct the issue immediately. I've gotten several people in much higher pay scales than I fired and I doubt more than a couple of people in the whole company have any idea I was involved.
I can't reiterate enough how important it is to remain anonymous. Even if you're successful, you don't want to be "that guy" at work that everyone knows is out to get everyone. Stay quiet, let others take the glory. This kind of glory is tainted, you don't want it.
Lol, I doubt that. .22 ammunition is actually getting traded around here like money. The gunshops are generally not marking it up because they know the current shortages wont last, but all the local stores like Walmart sell out their ammo before the store even opens and then the employees sell it themselves for double or triple. I know guys that have traded guns, deer, for boxes of ammo. I think the manufacturers are right though. If they stepped up production to meet demand right now I think the market would crash pretty quickly as everyones gun safes got full. Ammo last a long time...
You enforce it after the breach. There was a DDOS attach, they investigate, find out you were running things years out of date or whatever, then the fines kick in. Much like how it's illegal to not use a seat-belt in the US. They can't really look in every car and be sure as it's driving down the road. But if you get pulled over for something else or you get into an accident that's when you usually get a ticket for it.
Then the fine makes for good evidence in a legal case against the company by whomever was attacked.
I've never been turned down for a job after I've attended the itnerview. I'm better at interviewing than I am at my job. I've also participated in hiring people and been involved in interviewing them as well and I can tell you the mistakes I see in older people that causes them to fail the interview.
1. Lie. Your application to a company is like a TV infomercial. Don't say you know C# when you've never touched it. But if say they want experience in MYSQL and you're proficient in DB2 or whatever... just lie. The hiring manager doesn't know the difference and you'll be able to figure it out quickly enough as long as you have google access. You'll have to make a judgement call here but keep in mind the hiring manage usually has no idea what he/she wants, just wrote some crap down on the application and may not even remember that you said yes to that particular part. I for example am fluent in 2 different CRM architectures. So could I admin Salesforce or Microsoft Dynamics? Of course... but the hiring manager might not understand how easy the transition would be. So, I lie... I go download some demos and work in it over a weekend, then head into the interview proficient in both. The first week I can blaim my bumbling around on just getting used to things, but after 2 I should be good to go.
2. Have a FIRM handshake when you walk in the room. If you don't know how to do it, ask a Marine. I'm not kidding, there are dozens of studies that show the way you shake hands with someone will often doom the relationship before you even talk to them. Learn how to do it correctly.
3. Ware a suit. Always. Many if not most corporations these days have a form they fill out to hand into HR. Most of its very subjective, and the interviewer gets to enter what he wants. But if they have a question "Applicants appearance" and you're a man, a suit = 10 out of 10, and everything else is 10. It's just a fact. So ware a suit no matter what. Oh, and make sure it's not 20+ years old. You can pick up a new modern suit at JC Pennies for $100. Do it.
4. For the love of God don't talk about "The old days" or "Back when I worked for IBM" I know you're trying to brag... but what it says to the interviewer is "here's a guy with a lot of entrenched methods and skills that we don't need. We're going to have to retrain all of that out of him!" Don't do it.
Instead:
5. Talk about relevant, exciting new technologies. If they're looking for a people soft person, read up on it... learn what's new, what's happening to the company. Get excited about interesting new features. You want to mention at least 5 things about the software package that's new and exciting to the interviewer. That way they are thinking "Not even my best guy told me about that!" Again, I know it sounds silly but don't let pride keep you from getting paid.
6. Like someone else mentioned above, do not fill your resume with old, non-relevant things. If they need a C# dev and find out you worked as a DBA for 10 years... they then have to worry about you getting half way through a major project and then leave because you found a DBA job that pays more. If they're not looking for a DBA, don't mention that... or if they already know, play it down like that's not what you're interested in anymore. You really like coding and C#. etc...
I hope that helps.
Don't let the facts get in the way of a sensationalist scare mongering news story. We've got Heroin, pesticides and brain damage, it's a trifecta!
You mean like how they currently add acetaminophen to most opiates (check out your next codeine prescription) so that if you take too much you'll suffer liver damage? If you can't lead a horse to water, just poison every other source of water in the area and that fucking horse better damn well drink the right water... if not it's the horses fault its pissing blood.
Annual Sales
Approximately $2.5 billion in 2010
http://www.newegg.com/Info/FactSheet.aspx
I'm sure this will really hurt their bottom line. lol
I'm surprised Newegg doesn't just buy this company and fire the entire staff with extreme prejudice.
I do a lot of business with newegg. As a hobby I run a small "custom computer" business. I basically started out building computers for my familly and friends... and then it move on to "extended family and friends" and now I do between $10k and $20k in business with them per year. I don't make any profit, I just like doing it and I get lots of freebies as a result.
Newegg is by far the best retailer I've worked with. I do all of my business with them now. They even let me return downloadable software once because it wouldn't install correctly. I've returned CPUs after they were installed! Granted, they give me more leeway because I do so much business with them but they really do have decent policies and try their best to rectify any issues I have with them. Dell? HP? Crutchfield? Yea, they can all burn in hell.
How entrenched in your ideological nonsense are you? He tried to re-launch his political carer, and almost did it. But he only attracted democrats a leftist independents. The only reason he didn't run was because his attempt failed. The movie itself was actually full of inaccurate data which didn't help him at all.
Republicans jumped at the chance to make him and other democrats look like idiots. They continue to do so as the climate change debate has gotten so political at this point the Left is willing to publish any data they can find to support their case without vetting, while the right does the same. So rather than science, we now have the media publishing false claim after false claim and the general public just throwing up their hands in disgust. Either Global warming is the doom of the world and the only thing that can save us is Solar power... Or it's a made up fantasy.
And lastly, we have a solution to the problem! Nuclear power! We even have groups of climate change scientists asking the governments of the world to replace coal with nuclear power. Yet not a single democrat or republican will touch it. They like it the way it is, a black and white political issue. It's either real or not. There's no possibility that global warming is real, but just not quite as bad as Al Gore made it out to be... because that would be way to hard to describe in a 30sec political ad.
The only thing black and white about global warming is the fact that if you continue to vote for these 2 parties, you are dooming this country. Plain and simple.
And what's the percentage of those workers that are immigrants or of some religion that doesn't let them celebrate? I know we have a lot of people from India, Russia, and Thailand that all love to get the extra overtime during yet another one of your crazy US holidays. Then we have a few Jehovah Whiteness's that also like this time of year. I bet they account for well over 20% of our staff so how knows.
Secondly, most of my Turkey eating co-workers ended up having thanksgiving at various relatives houses the weekend before and after the holiday. There-for ending up with no where to go on actual turkey day. This happens nearly every year so it's become a custom at my house that I get the biggest turkey(s) (last year we had 2) I can find and invite anyone and everyone I work with (including some from other countries that just want to see what's up) to my house to eat. My mother is from a large southern family and has never been used to our northern way of having less than 10 people for dinner, so she thinks it's great. Last year we had 25 people over (only about 6 I was related to) and this year we're having about 15.
The entire point of the holiday, after all, is to get people together than generally don't get together and give thanks for all that we have. I'm lucky enough that I usually have actual Indians at my table (both kinds!) and I think it's great.
I'm pretty sure that climate change was labeled "political" when Al Gore used it as a platform in an attempt to re-launch his political career.
agree with you on the "ancient" multimeters. My primary is from the 1960's. Not only does it work better but it looks cool as hell, though I may be the only person that ever sees and appreciates it's aesthetics.
Another reasonable approach from might be to task, "How does our service need to change, in order for our own employees to want to use it?"
But they're right. The fact that most corporations STILL use outlook has more to do with the psychology of the staff than the actual utility of the application. Outlook sucks ass compared to even the most rudimentary webmail options out there. You have to pay for outlook! Yet any competent IT shop should be able to implement just about any open source web based mail app in a matter of weeks. Why pay millions to Microsoft when there are Free, better alternatives.
Lastly, maybe shes thinks that her staff will never be able to improve their software if they are not actually using it.
Because they spoof the credentials and enter the "national" network from one of thousands of transient VOIP service like Google. The carrier (like google) is getting the call via IP so they have no real idea where it came from and the sender claims to be calling from the US. There is NO verification of origin in standard phone services. So you could literally claim that your call was coming from the whitehouse and there would be no way to prove it wrong. You may think this is an over-site, but you'd be wrong. When these service were created it was over 100 years ago. There was no way to verify the info at that time. Then when Caller ID was introduced it was problematic. If you work for a hospital and call a patient, you don't want your desk phone showing up on their caller ID, you want the front desks phone right? So they allowed the customer to encode whatever they wanted into the caller id header.
Fast forward 40 years and voila people are abusing an aging system.
The company said it has no plans to sell any information collected through a cloud service connected to the devices
Translation: "We have no plans but reserve the right to change our minds shortly after you instal our device."
It's pretty simple. This is a screening test. It's supposed to be inaccurate as silly as that sounds. The point of it is, if there are ANY markers for the disease it's supposed to easily test positive. Then the user is supposed to go to a DOCTOR and verify the results. Even the initial tests they do in hospitals can sometimes give false positives as high as 80 to 90% of the time. So even if you do test positive, you still only have a 10% chance of actually having the disease.
Government regulation should be used to inform the public of the choices they are making to help prevent deception in the marketplace. It should not be used to prevent products the government dislikes from being made available to the public. In this case, the FDA should ask them to place clear and obvious statistics on the results of test. i.e. "You have flagged positive for suchandasuch disease. This is not a definitive diagnoses, and on average only 40% of people that get flagged on this test actually end up having the disease. Please seek a medical professional for a more definitive test and treatment if necessary"
Requiring disclosure is usually easy to comply with, welcome by nearly everyone and a non-controversial topic. If the company does not want to provide those statistics or even worse doesn't even have them yet, then I think the FDA would be in the right in telling them to stop production.
This is what copyright and patents are for... Protecting small inventors/artists from having their work stolen by someone that already has the infrastructure to take their product to market so fast that the original producer of the work has no conceivable chance of competing. So this is a rare instance where we get to see it work as it was intended. In most cases today, copyright and patents are used to stifle innovation, prevent progress and keep alive decades old business models that should have gone extinct ten years ago. Yes, Slashdot visitors have no love for the abuse of copyrights and patents, but that doesn't mean they oppose the entire concept.
I think it works either way actually.
Exactly right, they've decided that they should be able to pay their software engineers slightly above what McDonald's workers make. So they looked at McDonald's workers and determined they could be paid so little because there are so many of them... viola, we needs lots and lots of coders so there is more competition in the workforce and we can therefore pay them less. I don't know any company that's having trouble finding programers, but I know LOTS of programers that can't find jobs. The idea that this is some sort of noble cause they're fighting to help anyone but them selves is a joke.
I think the real question is what's so much more "super" about you than me?
I work for a phone company in the US. There's basically no way to stop these. When the call comes in, there's no way to know where it came from. Just change your number. You could do some things to try and get off their list but the fact of the matter is, if you're on their list, you're on THE list and this wont be the last problem you'll have. Your number will get sold and re-sold.
Lastly, to get targeted the way you did usually means they got a "hit" on your number... meaning one of their cons worked. If you're not already aware of them ripping you off, you should check your finances carefully to be sure they haven't already gotten some money from you. If they're calling you that much it's because they think you bit before so you'll bite again.
Oh, but they claim to be ACID complaint: http://www.marklogic.com/blog/can-you-pass-the-acid-test/
lol
WOW! No wonder they're having trouble. This has to be the worst idea for a database I've ever heard of. It definitely explains the problems they've been having.
It's not quite like that. The FEC governs how elections are run here down to how campaign workers can spend their time. Due to our first amendment (which is a great amendment, don't get me wrong) anyone can pretty much give anything to a candidate. This combined with our de facto 2 party system (which is protected by the 2 parties, not the constitution) sets up the perfect pay-for-play political system. Organizations give money to candidates and expect results... and usually get them. The our media which is already reeling from financial loses to the internet gets their largest revenue from elections and political ads. The candidates spend so much money on a single campaign now that anyone not willing to except large donations with strings, has absolutely no chance of even showing up on the ballot much less getting elected. The only way they can even get on local news stations is to make statements so outlandish that the media has to put them on.
I suspect that this decision will be challenged in court and reversed based on the 1st amendment and the fact that the rest of the fed seems to be accepting it as a legit currency. Our only real hope for reform in this country is that the 2 parties eventually screw up so badly that the general populace loses faith in both them and the media that supports them. But I'm not holding my breath.
I think that, what they do well is go cross platform easy. moving C++/C# From windows, to mac to linux is hard, takes time. But webapps generally work anywhere. I agree that JS, CSS and HTML are a pain in the ass... I'd love to see something new that compared to C# in ease of coding and power, but had the interoperability of JS. I myself will stick with the more robust languages. I still learning and not a great coder yet so all the wishy washynes of JS, etc... drive me nuts.
Whats even more interesting is that even the least dense gas in the sun, Hydrogen plasma, is compressed so ridiculously high because of the intense gravity that it's denser than lead. Think about that, and then think what the iron in the star must be like.
If you want to understand the process, read this:
http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/ast122/lectures/lec18.html