Imagine a world where you are denied employment or credit based on the information obtained from your car and sold by your insurer. What could possibly go wrong?
Why? you can already be denied employment for any reason in right to work states and importantly fired for any reason or not, If you believe that companies can fuck with you anytime or in anyway they want, this is a logical next step. Pretty soon they'll stick a probe up your ass to make sure your seat temperature coefficient is within spec otherwise you'll be unable to use their services, buy their product and will be labelled forever a high risk individual.
I lived in a very conservative state and in terms of local or regional elections it could be guaranteed who would win. In those cases I voted communist just to see if my votes were tallied in the next day's canvassing results in the local news. "Yup we got commies out there!"
. Today, a majority of people are difficult or impossible to reach on landline phones. One problem is that the 1991 Telephone Consumer Protection Act has been interpreted by the Federal Communications Commission to prohibit the calling of cellphones through automatic dialers, in which calls are passed to live interviewers only after a person picks up the phone. To complete a 1,000-person survey, it's not unusual to have to dial more than 20,000 random numbers, most of which do not go to actual working telephone numbers.
Landline phones? Come on this isn't the 1960s. I would have expected the same to include "party line" in the same sentence.
The 1991 CPA doesn't stop every fucking political action committee from spamming your with calls to vote for some idiot; a nuisance that was allowed explicitly by the act.
Just conduct your survey on twitter or facebook and pay the devil his due.
I've never seen a government that ever willingly gives you your money back. Once they have it they'll try every conceivable way to keep it. Whether or not it's legal or morally right to keep it, they don't care.
It's been shown time and time again that e-mails are being used as evidence chains that can either make a case or destroy it. In the non-government world, I advise my customers that they should have a written policy about e-mail retention that's based upon any regulatory requirements that they may be subject to and strictly follow it. Why? mainly because of 1) EDiscovery and 2) Consistent policy enforcement to demonstrating that the policy was followed and 3) spurious litigation avoidance. Not having e-mails / documents when retention policy is mandated can make you guilty just as much as having them, worse yet documents that are aged beyond that retention policy demonstrate that your organization was lax in following its own procedures; all of which can twist the actual truth and give litigants bountiful access to your bank account or put you in jail.
In the case of governments or government organizations, these rules don't apply and let's not forget that in the US the federal government does have laws on the book that are there to protect that information. Whether or not Secretaries of State follow it is another matter.
In the UK the three month rule was horribly short-sighted then again, if you're trying to preserve meeting minutes or other documentation, that shouldn't be in your e-mail system anyway; it's just a sad artifact that everybody wants to dump their business and personal lives into e-mail, governments included. This episode should also show how fucking incompetent elected leaders are in general No, they're not smarter than you, they're not better leaders nor do they necessarily have vision beyond what you're own eyes can see. They just had enough support and momentum to get elected into office, therefore you should have done your research before voting for the twits in the first place. Once they're in office, good or bad you're usually fucked.
I got fed up with Verizon letting scam callers through all the time. Yeah, they have ways of blocking but the interface, *this or #that is retarded. There's also no incentive for any provider to block this horseshit and the FTC do not call list is a fucking joke. I've done the nomorobo.com route but since I'm also a small business owner I've resorted to OOMA and frankly I'm happier with it. If one of these scumbags does get through I'll just add them block them.
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Led by Sen. Hatch of Utah.. Future Quote: "Trans Fat is one of the main components of Food Supplements! You'll put Americans out of work! Now where's my Jello?!? mmmm bone marrow jelly.."
So what the TFA is saying is that it's better for me to invest in Malware hackers than the S&P 500. Interesting. Now I'm wondering if there'll be an ETF or Mutual Fund available soon. Symbol: HX0R
and when the media decays and the systems no longer work and there's nobody around to fix them, then what? You can't put a system in a bottle and say it'll be supportable decades later. Even mainframe software has had to have some evolution because I don't see IBM selling S/360s anymore. Yes I can still run most of the apps built on the original S/360 but operating systems change as do underlying architectures. But those create more problems then they solve. If it's a "we need this data for X" that's something that migration to newer media can help but shit, mag tapes only last so long. Bitrot creeps into hard drives and optical media so unless you've built redundancy or library refresh into the solution there's no way to guarantee that. I guess after 40+ years the only solace is that the guy who designed it is long since retired or in the grave.
I thought one of the projects goals was to do things within a budget especially considering how many nations in the EU were involved in building it. You'd probably only see a single nation sourced spacecraft with this kind of capability.
who today even knows the name DEC anymore? recruiters even tell me to remove my DEC company experience from my resume.
I do and at last count I have 10 customers running VMS/OpenVMS systems. Your recruiters are idiots. Yes it's not a growth market but if you have experience with these legacy systems you can still make a living in the niche marketplace.
which in and of itself is a problem. No IT system should have an 80 year life expectancy. If you're talking an embedded system, such as an onboard radar or flight control system, that's another topic but even those get refreshed at a frequency 80 years. Technologies and tools change over time and coming up with unreasonable requirements only means that eventually the system developed will be on a dead branch of support and extensibility. You'll spend more in supporting it than throwing it away and starting over.
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Why? nobody complains when the TSA requires you to give fingerprints that are kept with the FBI for 75 years just to go through lines faster. Why should this matter?
Imagine a world where you are denied employment or credit based on the information obtained from your car and sold by your insurer. What could possibly go wrong?
Why? you can already be denied employment for any reason in right to work states and importantly fired for any reason or not, If you believe that companies can fuck with you anytime or in anyway they want, this is a logical next step. Pretty soon they'll stick a probe up your ass to make sure your seat temperature coefficient is within spec otherwise you'll be unable to use their services, buy their product and will be labelled forever a high risk individual.
I lived in a very conservative state and in terms of local or regional elections it could be guaranteed who would win. In those cases I voted communist just to see if my votes were tallied in the next day's canvassing results in the local news. "Yup we got commies out there!"
. Today, a majority of people are difficult or impossible to reach on landline phones. One problem is that the 1991 Telephone Consumer Protection Act has been interpreted by the Federal Communications Commission to prohibit the calling of cellphones through automatic dialers, in which calls are passed to live interviewers only after a person picks up the phone. To complete a 1,000-person survey, it's not unusual to have to dial more than 20,000 random numbers, most of which do not go to actual working telephone numbers.
Landline phones? Come on this isn't the 1960s. I would have expected the same to include "party line" in the same sentence.
The 1991 CPA doesn't stop every fucking political action committee from spamming your with calls to vote for some idiot; a nuisance that was allowed explicitly by the act.
Just conduct your survey on twitter or facebook and pay the devil his due.
having dealt with the IRS multiple times on paperwork bullshit, I can still attest there's nothing "willing" about it.
willingly? so you forget all that business about tax returns, turbo tax, accountants. That's not willing.
I've never seen a government that ever willingly gives you your money back. Once they have it they'll try every conceivable way to keep it. Whether or not it's legal or morally right to keep it, they don't care.
It's been shown time and time again that e-mails are being used as evidence chains that can either make a case or destroy it. In the non-government world, I advise my customers that they should have a written policy about e-mail retention that's based upon any regulatory requirements that they may be subject to and strictly follow it. Why? mainly because of 1) EDiscovery and 2) Consistent policy enforcement to demonstrating that the policy was followed and 3) spurious litigation avoidance. Not having e-mails / documents when retention policy is mandated can make you guilty just as much as having them, worse yet documents that are aged beyond that retention policy demonstrate that your organization was lax in following its own procedures; all of which can twist the actual truth and give litigants bountiful access to your bank account or put you in jail.
In the case of governments or government organizations, these rules don't apply and let's not forget that in the US the federal government does have laws on the book that are there to protect that information. Whether or not Secretaries of State follow it is another matter.
In the UK the three month rule was horribly short-sighted then again, if you're trying to preserve meeting minutes or other documentation, that shouldn't be in your e-mail system anyway; it's just a sad artifact that everybody wants to dump their business and personal lives into e-mail, governments included. This episode should also show how fucking incompetent elected leaders are in general No, they're not smarter than you, they're not better leaders nor do they necessarily have vision beyond what you're own eyes can see. They just had enough support and momentum to get elected into office, therefore you should have done your research before voting for the twits in the first place. Once they're in office, good or bad you're usually fucked.
I got fed up with Verizon letting scam callers through all the time. Yeah, they have ways of blocking but the interface, *this or #that is retarded. There's also no incentive for any provider to block this horseshit and the FTC do not call list is a fucking joke. I've done the nomorobo.com route but since I'm also a small business owner I've resorted to OOMA and frankly I'm happier with it. If one of these scumbags does get through I'll just add them block them.
Because you're not in charge, so there!
Led by Sen. Hatch of Utah.. Future Quote: "Trans Fat is one of the main components of Food Supplements! You'll put Americans out of work! Now where's my Jello?!? mmmm bone marrow jelly.."
He's on Russia Today but he constantly rages about the Bilderberg meetings. He reminds me of a guy on crack; he probably is.
Listen to Max Keiser much?
They want their conference room back. "Please get this guy out of our embassy! He's stinking up the place!" - Ecuadorian Ambassador to UK
Which is why in the bulletin they suggest changing it. I do this on a regular basis. For me it's just early in the cycle so no worries.
So what the TFA is saying is that it's better for me to invest in Malware hackers than the S&P 500. Interesting. Now I'm wondering if there'll be an ETF or Mutual Fund available soon. Symbol: HX0R
In the firmware there was a section of code..
If older_game then block_it();
now it's
if older_game then revenue();
and when the media decays and the systems no longer work and there's nobody around to fix them, then what? You can't put a system in a bottle and say it'll be supportable decades later. Even mainframe software has had to have some evolution because I don't see IBM selling S/360s anymore. Yes I can still run most of the apps built on the original S/360 but operating systems change as do underlying architectures. But those create more problems then they solve. If it's a "we need this data for X" that's something that migration to newer media can help but shit, mag tapes only last so long. Bitrot creeps into hard drives and optical media so unless you've built redundancy or library refresh into the solution there's no way to guarantee that. I guess after 40+ years the only solace is that the guy who designed it is long since retired or in the grave.
I thought one of the projects goals was to do things within a budget especially considering how many nations in the EU were involved in building it. You'd probably only see a single nation sourced spacecraft with this kind of capability.
that Elon was going to name it the Ted Stevens memorial hyperloop
I remember in "Swordfish" they had one sitting in a basement. It was where the Jackman character stashed his code. It's probably still there.
who today even knows the name DEC anymore? recruiters even tell me to remove my DEC company experience from my resume.
I do and at last count I have 10 customers running VMS/OpenVMS systems. Your recruiters are idiots. Yes it's not a growth market but if you have experience with these legacy systems you can still make a living in the niche marketplace.
which in and of itself is a problem. No IT system should have an 80 year life expectancy. If you're talking an embedded system, such as an onboard radar or flight control system, that's another topic but even those get refreshed at a frequency 80 years. Technologies and tools change over time and coming up with unreasonable requirements only means that eventually the system developed will be on a dead branch of support and extensibility. You'll spend more in supporting it than throwing it away and starting over.
rookie. Up until 2004 I had a customer on Tops-10 O.o
You should try the 70s when a 4800 Baud modem cost you over $3000/month. No you couldn't buy it either.