I guess it depends on whether or not the topic of weekend/after hours work came up during the interview process. If it did, and he said, 'sure no problem', only to change it later, then I'd side with the company. If the topic never came up, and he was mainly expected to work 9-5 hours, then I'd side with the employee.
... or someone else is facing Murder 2 charges for deliberately unlocking it. Those are the only two possibilities.
Nope. She may have left something powered so that she could diagnose or work on some piece of equipment. On occasion, I've worked in areas with live automation, bypassing certain safety features, because I need to see it run up close to diagnose things. Bad on my part, but most of the stuff I work with isn't generally large enough to kill me. But still not a great idea.
It's possible that they didn't account for the reach of the adjacent robot in the next cell over. If so, bad, bad engineers. If a robot in area A can reach from area A to area B, you can't just lock out area B when someone is in there. lockout of Area A should be linked to area B.
1. A robot starts moving even though it's safety doors are open and/or lockout procedures were in place, or
2. A technician bypassed/ignored safety lockouts to be able to work on a functioning automation cell because it was quicker/easier,
I would say #2 is far more likely. #1 isn't impossible (things do fail), but what I've seen (and done myself) working around automation, #2 is the likely culprit.
Isn't the entire point of facebook to look at all of the stuff people have posted? How is looking at your stuff on facebook different from surveillance?
Now it is true that unions have to be careful not to harm the parent companies, but we are no where near that.
Soooo... you didn't notice that this article is about Tesla Motor's production plant in Fremont.... which formerly housed the NUMMI production plant.... that was shut down due to high union costs? Really?
I seriously don't understand how people are so anti-union. I assume none of them have ever been part of a union...
Bad assumption. I am against unions, and I actually worked with the NUMMI union (and even briefly was forced to join their union). The workers were low skilled, but felt they deserved high pay. And don't even get me started on the 'leadership' of the union. The fliers that they wrote for their elections looked like they were written by 5th graders for a class president election.
Kids, yeah, good luck with matching up schools to new areas
What? Why would you have to 'match up' schools? You move to an area, you send your kids to the school in your district. Do you even have kids? Or understand how schooling works?
I've noticed over the last few years that most websites suck as far as loading time, even on DSL connections. There is so much garbage loaded that even a relatively new computer on a good connection loads slowly. Web developers today should all be lined up and shot.
UPS truck drivers don't take left turns, and despite this usually resulting in longer route,...after it found that drivers have to sit idly in the trucks while waiting to take the left turn to pass through traffic.... it created an algorithm that eliminated left turns from drivers' routes even if meant a longer journey.
Ah, I see, so they travel farther, but spend less time idling. Gotcha. Wait, wha...
the company said that the total distance covered by its 96,000 trucks was reduced by 747,000km, and 190,000 litres of fuel had been saved.
Soooo... are they traveling MORE miles or LESS miles?
...did not qualify as a seizure...because there was "no meaningful interference" with the account holder's "possessory interest" in the data sought.
I think this judge is sort of missing the point of why people fight against having their personal data seized. It's not that we don't have access to the seized data, it's that other parties have access to something that I want kept private.
I'd like to see this same argument used when I demand a bunch of classified documents from the government:
"No, no, it's OK, I just want a COPY of the classified stuff. You guys will still have your 'possessory interest'"
We do not produce enough technically qualified candidates in this country
Utter crap. Should I point this guy to the story about how Disney imported a bunch of H-1B workers... and then had their CURRENT EMPLOYEES train them? The H1-B either needs to be shuttered completely, or they need to require that the H-1B worker be paid 50% above the industry average. Take away the incentive to use them as cheap replacement labor.
paving the way for customers of the nation's largest cable provider to watch live programming without the cost or hassle of a cable box.
You mean like they use to, when I could just plug the cable directly into my TV, use just my TV remote AND get HD channels? All without a cable box? Then one day they strangely decided that I just HAD to have a cable box. Which 1) required a fee if I wanted the HD cable box (SD was free) 2) required that I now use two different remotes to control my TV 3) a SEPERATE box for each and every TV I wanted to hook up.
Gee, thanks Comcast. You created an unnecessary problem, and then now offered a half-assed 'solution'. Cable sucks.
He likes driving, but, he said, “They need to stop lowering their rates.”
They won't until people like you stop driving. If you are willing to drive at X rate, then they lower it to Y rate and you are STILL willing to drive for them, they have zero incentive to go back to X rate. In fact, next stop will be an even lower Z rate.
...when he began leasing a car from Uber and needed to work more hours to make his minimum payments.
These are the people I don't understand. Isn't the point of Uber that you can use your existing car? Don't you already HAVE a car? If not, why would you specifically LEASE one, especially with payments that are so high that you have to drive 24/7 to afford them? I don't have a lot of sympathy for people that took on risk to make an easy buck without doing some basic math on their investment first.
But I'm willing to bet 100% of Tesla owners have flown SOMEWHERE before, where an AutoPilot was used, but never without a PILOT.
Well, no shit. Why would you think there wouldn't be a pilot, even if there was some form of 'autopilot' in use? Even if there was a point A to point B, fully autonomous airplane autopilot, there is still going to be a pilot on board. A pilot still being on board tells us NOTHING about the level of autonomy of the plane.
Those who have taken on debt to finance their vehicles feel trapped and have little choice but to work unsafe hours to service their loans and feed their families, it says.
This is where you learn to figure out what your costs are vs. your revenues, and then see if you make a decent living. Doing so AFTER you've already gone into debt for your business model is always a bad idea. Also, wasn't the point of Uber that you could use your existing car that was just sitting around doing nothing? Why would you finance a vehicle?
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How does Real Time Syndication become RSS? Should be RTS?
Matrix will join other famous film properties -- Star Wars,...receiving a recent franchise reboot or "reimagining."
Star wars has had prequels (ep 1,2,3, Rogue One) and a sequel (Ep 7), but there has been no reboot or reimagning.
I guess it depends on whether or not the topic of weekend/after hours work came up during the interview process. If it did, and he said, 'sure no problem', only to change it later, then I'd side with the company. If the topic never came up, and he was mainly expected to work 9-5 hours, then I'd side with the employee.
Holy crap, I reasoned, thoughtful post? Get off of /., right now!
... or someone else is facing Murder 2 charges for deliberately unlocking it. Those are the only two possibilities.
Nope. She may have left something powered so that she could diagnose or work on some piece of equipment. On occasion, I've worked in areas with live automation, bypassing certain safety features, because I need to see it run up close to diagnose things. Bad on my part, but most of the stuff I work with isn't generally large enough to kill me. But still not a great idea.
Mo' pain and suffering = mo' money for the lawyers.
It's possible that they didn't account for the reach of the adjacent robot in the next cell over. If so, bad, bad engineers. If a robot in area A can reach from area A to area B, you can't just lock out area B when someone is in there. lockout of Area A should be linked to area B.
Given the two options of either:
1. A robot starts moving even though it's safety doors are open and/or lockout procedures were in place, or
2. A technician bypassed/ignored safety lockouts to be able to work on a functioning automation cell because it was quicker/easier,
I would say #2 is far more likely. #1 isn't impossible (things do fail), but what I've seen (and done myself) working around automation, #2 is the likely culprit.
Isn't the entire point of facebook to look at all of the stuff people have posted? How is looking at your stuff on facebook different from surveillance?
It's possible multiple transmitters were spaced out for greater coverage. One FM station does not necessarily have just one transmitter.
Now it is true that unions have to be careful not to harm the parent companies, but we are no where near that.
Soooo... you didn't notice that this article is about Tesla Motor's production plant in Fremont.... which formerly housed the NUMMI production plant.... that was shut down due to high union costs? Really?
I seriously don't understand how people are so anti-union. I assume none of them have ever been part of a union...
Bad assumption. I am against unions, and I actually worked with the NUMMI union (and even briefly was forced to join their union). The workers were low skilled, but felt they deserved high pay. And don't even get me started on the 'leadership' of the union. The fliers that they wrote for their elections looked like they were written by 5th graders for a class president election.
Kids, yeah, good luck with matching up schools to new areas
What? Why would you have to 'match up' schools? You move to an area, you send your kids to the school in your district. Do you even have kids? Or understand how schooling works?
I've noticed over the last few years that most websites suck as far as loading time, even on DSL connections. There is so much garbage loaded that even a relatively new computer on a good connection loads slowly. Web developers today should all be lined up and shot.
UPS truck drivers don't take left turns, and despite this usually resulting in longer route,...after it found that drivers have to sit idly in the trucks while waiting to take the left turn to pass through traffic.... it created an algorithm that eliminated left turns from drivers' routes even if meant a longer journey.
Ah, I see, so they travel farther, but spend less time idling. Gotcha. Wait, wha...
the company said that the total distance covered by its 96,000 trucks was reduced by 747,000km, and 190,000 litres of fuel had been saved.
Soooo... are they traveling MORE miles or LESS miles?
I think this judge is sort of missing the point of why people fight against having their personal data seized. It's not that we don't have access to the seized data, it's that other parties have access to something that I want kept private.
I'd like to see this same argument used when I demand a bunch of classified documents from the government:
"No, no, it's OK, I just want a COPY of the classified stuff. You guys will still have your 'possessory interest'"
We do not produce enough technically qualified candidates in this country
Utter crap. Should I point this guy to the story about how Disney imported a bunch of H-1B workers... and then had their CURRENT EMPLOYEES train them? The H1-B either needs to be shuttered completely, or they need to require that the H-1B worker be paid 50% above the industry average. Take away the incentive to use them as cheap replacement labor.
one 45-disk pod using 8TB HGST disks, went a full year without a single spindle failing... 45 years of aggregate usage without a fault.
Oh, yeah? I have a 1,000 disk pod that went a MONTH without a single spindle failing... 83 years of aggregate usage without a fault!
paving the way for customers of the nation's largest cable provider to watch live programming without the cost or hassle of a cable box.
You mean like they use to, when I could just plug the cable directly into my TV, use just my TV remote AND get HD channels? All without a cable box? Then one day they strangely decided that I just HAD to have a cable box. Which 1) required a fee if I wanted the HD cable box (SD was free) 2) required that I now use two different remotes to control my TV 3) a SEPERATE box for each and every TV I wanted to hook up.
Gee, thanks Comcast. You created an unnecessary problem, and then now offered a half-assed 'solution'. Cable sucks.
He likes driving, but, he said, “They need to stop lowering their rates.”
They won't until people like you stop driving. If you are willing to drive at X rate, then they lower it to Y rate and you are STILL willing to drive for them, they have zero incentive to go back to X rate. In fact, next stop will be an even lower Z rate.
...when he began leasing a car from Uber and needed to work more hours to make his minimum payments.
These are the people I don't understand. Isn't the point of Uber that you can use your existing car? Don't you already HAVE a car? If not, why would you specifically LEASE one, especially with payments that are so high that you have to drive 24/7 to afford them? I don't have a lot of sympathy for people that took on risk to make an easy buck without doing some basic math on their investment first.
But I'm willing to bet 100% of Tesla owners have flown SOMEWHERE before, where an AutoPilot was used, but never without a PILOT.
Well, no shit. Why would you think there wouldn't be a pilot, even if there was some form of 'autopilot' in use? Even if there was a point A to point B, fully autonomous airplane autopilot, there is still going to be a pilot on board. A pilot still being on board tells us NOTHING about the level of autonomy of the plane.
installing Autopilot prevents crashes -- by an astonishing 40 percent...
I think everybody knew that a solid autopilot system was going to be better than human drivers on average. Why is the author astonished by this?
I don't understand why you are comparing pilot terminology to everyday person terminology. 99% of the population doesn't speak pilot-ese.
Those who have taken on debt to finance their vehicles feel trapped and have little choice but to work unsafe hours to service their loans and feed their families, it says.
This is where you learn to figure out what your costs are vs. your revenues, and then see if you make a decent living. Doing so AFTER you've already gone into debt for your business model is always a bad idea. Also, wasn't the point of Uber that you could use your existing car that was just sitting around doing nothing? Why would you finance a vehicle?