In 2010 I was at a cold war site built in 1970, they were just getting around to transferring the mission from the original custom-built mainframes (Bell) to a few Sun servers. One of the driving factors was the lack of paper punch card readers to get system updates into the old system. I have few of the 80-column cards as souvenirs.
The savings in power alone paid for the project in less that 3 years.
And will provide you with all the power less protection you might need.
You shouldn't need it in the first place. SSD is not yet a reliable technology. We need storage devices that will never fail due to power losses. Many on Slashdot have already dropped their trousers and eagerly spread their assholes to accept current SSD devices. All they can do is safe face with personal anecdotes of problem-free experiences while everyone else has either had an SSD drive fail hard or knows someone who has.
What storage device is that because it sure as hell isn't spinning rust. Head crashes anyone. Tape gets closest but the access speed sure sucks.
A or An for UPS depends on whether you pronounce is as an initialism ( a You Pee ESS) or as an acronym (an UPS). UPS is one of those peculiar ones that is pronounced either way depending on the speaker.
This guy was flying his drone at an outdoor football stadium during a skydiving exhibition, the \. article is about flying in spaces with a roof over your head. So yeah this article about a Kentucky idiot is a great illustration.
My former employer had written in its employment agreement that they may record audio and video of... telephones, hidden cameras and microphones, computer activity, etc. They required you to sign an NDA that you can not discuss any aspect of your employment even after leaving the company, and you can't record audio or video on the premises. That's pretty fucked up even for being a major tire dealer/manufacturer/repair center that had major tire recalls, that I can't name because of the NDA. Major customer and employee screwing went on there.
And you are also incorrect, NLRB rulings can apply to federal workers, unionized on not.
An example: non-union workers of a unionized workplace. A unionized Federal Fire Department can have both GI and civilian emplyees. If the civilian union employees are granted something in the union contract (1-hour lunch break) then the GI must also be afforded the same. Or maybe after duty hours the civilians have negotiated the right to change into workout gear for wear around the station then the GI must also have the same right.
Unions are not socialism. Unions do not advocate community control of production. The tie between socialism and Unions has been made by the Employers to discredit unions. Granted many union leaders have socialist tendencies but Unions do not have any explicit tie to socialism.
Socialism: a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
More socialism from the administration of the Glorious Leader Obummer to ruin this once great Christian nation.
Sociallism, really. Can you please elaborate how this ruling has anything to do with Socialism?
Oh never mind you are one of those AC's that equate anything that strengthens worker's rights as Socialism, even though you have no clue what socialism is.
They're a big thing here in Nawth Ca'lina where we have literally thousands of poultry and hog factories. And a hell of a lot of animal abuse too, by the way.
That is the state making a law, which they can do. This case is an employer trying to prevent an employee from taping a conversation even though the law allows it and specifically banning taping as an act to prove that a supervisor told them to do something.
Interestingly, while recording audio may require two-party consent, recording video without audio does not require two-party consent in most if not all jurisdictions. This is why security cameras are usually video only.
The problem is the billionaires have rigged the Supply and Demand thing. The Demand for IT workers was high while the supply was low so salaries climbed. Now how to we get more supply to drive the salaries down, train more citizens? No that costs money and those new workers will want a good salary. I know, let's import foreign workers that are used to making 1/10th the salary and pay them less, Win Win, more supply less cost.
That's how the H1B visa program has been used to keep salaries down.
The Law of Supply and Demand says that if you pay enough you will get enough IT workers. The billionaires just don't want to pay enough.
For example go to TireRack (don't log in), look for tires for your car, then come to Slashdot (don't log in), and the first ad you see is an ad for the tires you just looked at on TireRack. Gee either someone is looking at cookies that they shouldn't be or both sites use the same analytics engine and that engine is tracking you across the sites.
They will get some lawyer to right a secret opinion that what they are doing is legal then point to the secret opinion paper that they can't show you that what they are doing is legal. Oh, can't show you the paper because what we are doing is legal because what we are doing is secret but trust us we have the opinion paper.
What is needed is a change in culture and attitude on the part of intelligence agencies, so that they are concerned with legality and civil rights and not just the shortest path to the most information.
Anyone who has ever worked in national security can tell you every military and civilian intel agency is extremely careful about the legality of their actions and protecting the civil rights of Americans.
If you only read Glenn Greenwald-esque editorials and opinion pieces, then it's no wonder you have an extremely skewed view of the issues.
Bullshit, I have personally experienced the willingness to twist/interpret something to make it appear legal, not something I was involved with but think about Abu Ghraib Prison and the US Army classifying the events. The laws regarding classification specifically state that classification cannot be used to hide embarrassing information so the classification authority used the tortured logic that if this EMBARRASSING information became public it would endanger US troops (absolutely true) but the real reason it was dangerous is because it was EMBARASSING and it was classified because it was EMBARRASSING.
Or the whole parallel construction crap. I definitely don't believe all the stories but I guarantee that cops are tipped off from illegal information to stop a certain vehicle for any reason possible (broken tail light/illegal lane change/didn't signal trun) and then get permission to search the car and you will find something.
Beltway bandits AKA Contrators not the little guy contractor that is actually on the ground doing the work but the three-letter types. Most of the little guys doing the work are conscientious about doing a good job and saving money.
Having worked in/with the US military on and off for 30+ years I can honestly say I have never encountered this attitude or heard some say "Who cares it isn't really my money being spent."
Now some contractors will try to rip off the government and perhaps they have that attitude but none of the GS civilians or GIs or the actual peon contractors have ever exhibited that attitude. A lot of them get pissed at waste because they know it is their own tax money being wasted.
There is the bad thing where if you don't spend this year's budget you may start will less next year but normally they really do try to spend the money on necessities.
Oh yeah the hospital did their part but it was the Collection Agency that put the negative remark on my Credit Report. Try to get any Collection Agency to remove a negative remark without giving them money and sometimes even not then.
My real problem was I needed the Mortgage now and all the work to clear stuff up takes real time.
And all the steps take some serious time and when you are moving back from overseas and trying to close on a house for you family you don't really have that kind of time.
Trust me we did all that except small claims court.
- The hospital acknowledged the error in writing but said they couldn't take off credit report because the Collection agency had put it on the report and well you know what the CA said, "Show me the money" no percentage in the CA removing it - Even got the Military Medical people involved AKA TriCare who provided assistance in the form of a letter to the hospital wanting to know why I was charged to begin with. - The bank wouldn't give me the loan with the bad debt on my report, only bad item on the report by the way. - Finally a hospital officer "Mr. Friendly" real name and I will never forget it, provided a notarized letter to my lending officer stating the debt was in error and that it should never have been entered against me. So I got the loan. - Took another two years for it to clear from my credit history so I kept the letter for a damn long time.
In my opinion the only "Bad Actor" in the whole deal was the CA, once informed the debt was in error by the hospital they should have taken action to clear it. But no they wanted the money for the debt they had purchased. Fuck them it's the risk they take for being in that business.
The hospital had made a mistake and acknowledged same. The credit could of taken a verbal but wanted everything in writing, CYA and I get that.
For Instance: - Be in the Military - Get injured on the job, maybe fall and break four ribs in your back, just supposing here - Go to a civilian hospital that has agreed to accept the military payment as payment in full, any hospital that accepts Medicare has to - Go about your life getting stationed overseas - Return to the States after 5 years and try to buy and house and discover the that Hospital fucked up and marked the bill as unpaid, turned it over to a bill collector and not only can you not get approved to buy the house the damn bill collector starts harassing you and your wife with phone calls day and night. - Hospital finally admits bill was in error but sorry they sold it to the bill collector so not their problem and the damn bill collector ain't gonna stop calling
Now tell me how paying my bills kept the calls away???
Slashdot Mirror
And get off my lawn.
In 2010 I was at a cold war site built in 1970, they were just getting around to transferring the mission from the original custom-built mainframes (Bell) to a few Sun servers. One of the driving factors was the lack of paper punch card readers to get system updates into the old system. I have few of the 80-column cards as souvenirs.
The savings in power alone paid for the project in less that 3 years.
And will provide you with all the power less protection you might need.
You shouldn't need it in the first place. SSD is not yet a reliable technology. We need storage devices that will never fail due to power losses. Many on Slashdot have already dropped their trousers and eagerly spread their assholes to accept current SSD devices. All they can do is safe face with personal anecdotes of problem-free experiences while everyone else has either had an SSD drive fail hard or knows someone who has.
What storage device is that because it sure as hell isn't spinning rust. Head crashes anyone. Tape gets closest but the access speed sure sucks.
A or An for UPS depends on whether you pronounce is as an initialism ( a You Pee ESS) or as an acronym (an UPS). UPS is one of those peculiar ones that is pronounced either way depending on the speaker.
Happy to be at your service.
Go read up about some of the root causes of the Great Depression and get back to me about raising tariffs.
This guy was flying his drone at an outdoor football stadium during a skydiving exhibition, the \. article is about flying in spaces with a roof over your head. So yeah this article about a Kentucky idiot is a great illustration.
My former employer had written in its employment agreement that they may record audio and video of... telephones, hidden cameras and microphones, computer activity, etc. They required you to sign an NDA that you can not discuss any aspect of your employment even after leaving the company, and you can't record audio or video on the premises. That's pretty fucked up even for being a major tire dealer/manufacturer/repair center that had major tire recalls, that I can't name because of the NDA. Major customer and employee screwing went on there.
You are posting as an AC, name away.
And you are also incorrect, NLRB rulings can apply to federal workers, unionized on not.
An example: non-union workers of a unionized workplace. A unionized Federal Fire Department can have both GI and civilian emplyees. If the civilian union employees are granted something in the union contract (1-hour lunch break) then the GI must also be afforded the same. Or maybe after duty hours the civilians have negotiated the right to change into workout gear for wear around the station then the GI must also have the same right.
I was involved in the above situation.
Unions are not socialism. Unions do not advocate community control of production. The tie between socialism and Unions has been made by the Employers to discredit unions. Granted many union leaders have socialist tendencies but Unions do not have any explicit tie to socialism.
Socialism: a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
More socialism from the administration of the Glorious Leader Obummer to ruin this once great Christian nation.
Sociallism, really. Can you please elaborate how this ruling has anything to do with Socialism?
Oh never mind you are one of those AC's that equate anything that strengthens worker's rights as Socialism, even though you have no clue what socialism is.
They're a big thing here in Nawth Ca'lina where we have literally thousands of poultry and hog factories. And a hell of a lot of animal abuse too, by the way.
http://www.theatlantic.com/hea...
That is the state making a law, which they can do. This case is an employer trying to prevent an employee from taping a conversation even though the law allows it and specifically banning taping as an act to prove that a supervisor told them to do something.
Slight difference.
Interestingly, while recording audio may require two-party consent, recording video without audio does not require two-party consent in most if not all jurisdictions. This is why security cameras are usually video only.
The problem is the billionaires have rigged the Supply and Demand thing. The Demand for IT workers was high while the supply was low so salaries climbed. Now how to we get more supply to drive the salaries down, train more citizens? No that costs money and those new workers will want a good salary. I know, let's import foreign workers that are used to making 1/10th the salary and pay them less, Win Win, more supply less cost.
That's how the H1B visa program has been used to keep salaries down.
The Law of Supply and Demand says that if you pay enough you will get enough IT workers. The billionaires just don't want to pay enough.
Don't have to give out personal information...
For example go to TireRack (don't log in), look for tires for your car, then come to Slashdot (don't log in), and the first ad you see is an ad for the tires you just looked at on TireRack. Gee either someone is looking at cookies that they shouldn't be or both sites use the same analytics engine and that engine is tracking you across the sites.
They will get some lawyer to right a secret opinion that what they are doing is legal then point to the secret opinion paper that they can't show you that what they are doing is legal. Oh, can't show you the paper because what we are doing is legal because what we are doing is secret but trust us we have the opinion paper.
Waterboarding not being torture, yeah right.
What is needed is a change in culture and attitude on the part of intelligence agencies, so that they are concerned with legality and civil rights and not just the shortest path to the most information.
Anyone who has ever worked in national security can tell you every military and civilian intel agency is extremely careful about the legality of their actions and protecting the civil rights of Americans.
If you only read Glenn Greenwald-esque editorials and opinion pieces, then it's no wonder you have an extremely skewed view of the issues.
Bullshit, I have personally experienced the willingness to twist/interpret something to make it appear legal, not something I was involved with but think about Abu Ghraib Prison and the US Army classifying the events. The laws regarding classification specifically state that classification cannot be used to hide embarrassing information so the classification authority used the tortured logic that if this EMBARRASSING information became public it would endanger US troops (absolutely true) but the real reason it was dangerous is because it was EMBARASSING and it was classified because it was EMBARRASSING.
Or the whole parallel construction crap. I definitely don't believe all the stories but I guarantee that cops are tipped off from illegal information to stop a certain vehicle for any reason possible (broken tail light/illegal lane change/didn't signal trun) and then get permission to search the car and you will find something.
Depending on the methods used and the foreign government there may be times where it is not justified.
For Example, hacking the phone of the head of state for a friendly nation was BS and was not justifiable for US Intelligence to do.
Beltway bandits AKA Contrators not the little guy contractor that is actually on the ground doing the work but the three-letter types. Most of the little guys doing the work are conscientious about doing a good job and saving money.
Having worked in/with the US military on and off for 30+ years I can honestly say I have never encountered this attitude or heard some say "Who cares it isn't really my money being spent."
Now some contractors will try to rip off the government and perhaps they have that attitude but none of the GS civilians or GIs or the actual peon contractors have ever exhibited that attitude. A lot of them get pissed at waste because they know it is their own tax money being wasted.
There is the bad thing where if you don't spend this year's budget you may start will less next year but normally they really do try to spend the money on necessities.
YMMV
Offer to pay but before you can pay you need to know who and where they are. If they give you a PO box you still have a name of the company.
Oh yeah the hospital did their part but it was the Collection Agency that put the negative remark on my Credit Report. Try to get any Collection Agency to remove a negative remark without giving them money and sometimes even not then.
My real problem was I needed the Mortgage now and all the work to clear stuff up takes real time.
No, not only for debt owed to the US Government but also guaranteed by the US Government
- Private Student Loans
- VA Guaranteed Mortgages
- SMB loans
- FEMA guaranteed loans
- ETC. ETC. ETC.
And all the steps take some serious time and when you are moving back from overseas and trying to close on a house for you family you don't really have that kind of time.
Trust me we did all that except small claims court.
- The hospital acknowledged the error in writing but said they couldn't take off credit report because the Collection agency had put it on the report and well you know what the CA said, "Show me the money" no percentage in the CA removing it
- Even got the Military Medical people involved AKA TriCare who provided assistance in the form of a letter to the hospital wanting to know why I was charged to begin with.
- The bank wouldn't give me the loan with the bad debt on my report, only bad item on the report by the way.
- Finally a hospital officer "Mr. Friendly" real name and I will never forget it, provided a notarized letter to my lending officer stating the debt was in error and that it should never have been entered against me. So I got the loan.
- Took another two years for it to clear from my credit history so I kept the letter for a damn long time.
In my opinion the only "Bad Actor" in the whole deal was the CA, once informed the debt was in error by the hospital they should have taken action to clear it. But no they wanted the money for the debt they had purchased. Fuck them it's the risk they take for being in that business.
The hospital had made a mistake and acknowledged same. The credit could of taken a verbal but wanted everything in writing, CYA and I get that.
For Instance:
- Be in the Military
- Get injured on the job, maybe fall and break four ribs in your back, just supposing here
- Go to a civilian hospital that has agreed to accept the military payment as payment in full, any hospital that accepts Medicare has to
- Go about your life getting stationed overseas
- Return to the States after 5 years and try to buy and house and discover the that Hospital fucked up and marked the bill as unpaid, turned it over to a bill collector and not only can you not get approved to buy the house the damn bill collector starts harassing you and your wife with phone calls day and night.
- Hospital finally admits bill was in error but sorry they sold it to the bill collector so not their problem and the damn bill collector ain't gonna stop calling
Now tell me how paying my bills kept the calls away???