FTA:" Suniva Inc, a Georgia-based solar cell and panel maker that is backed by Goldman Sachs Group Inc, farms out a small portion of its manufacturing to federal inmates as part of a longstanding government program intended to prepare them for life after prison."
Teaching prisoners useful skills is bad, if they learn a job while in there they may not re-offend and keep the prison supply system working. Or something like that?
1) promise unlimited something, quickly realize what everyone on earth already knew except for you, that is never going to work. Ever.
2) ???
3) profit.
For the few of you that actually bothered to click on the article link, the picture shows some kind of really short cord with a plug at the end...
I don't know what the hell that is but it cannot be the cord the article is about, because the cord MS is sending is just the cord that goes between the power brick and Surface Pro, so it doesn't have a plug.
Also worth noting that the article summary might lad you to believe this was about the current Surface Pro, but it's not - Surface Pro 3 and older. Even then it does not apply to a Surface Pro 3 you'd buy new from Microsoft now, they ship with fixed cables already. It doesn't affect the Surface Pro 4 at all.
?? the cord that goes from the Sp3 to the brick is permanently attached. That can only be replaced by swapping out the brick itself. The *other* cord is the one being replaced, as shown in the pic.
SP3 owner here. They could have made the power adapter a wall wart - it isn't that big. Wallwart---cable--connector. Simple
Instead they went wall--cable--brick---cable---connector. This just begs to have both cables wrapped around the brick when travelling.
It's that first cable that breaks open. The second cable is much more robust, has the flexy thing at the joint and is permanently attached to the brick.
the first cable is a standard type used in electric razors, old toshiba laptops etc. Very common part. And from the pic the replacement does not look anymore robust than the original...so will have exactly same issue....people will wrap it around the brick..and it will fail.
Yes they do, they actually write stuff. Sometime long in-depth articles that you can't get anywhere else. Unlike newspapers who mostly repost wire stories and want to charge for access to it, Wired has a long history of producing original content.
Could we start with requiring documentation?
We just got a new FTTH Hub from our ISP. No manual. No instructions. Vendor has nothing online and refers to ISP insists who there is no known documentation for the Hub.
Sagemcom f@st 5250 for those wondering.
So not only is it non repairable it's non-troubleshootable and no way to tell anything about the device.
I feel sorry for your family. crappy phones, horribly slow tablets, junky laptops. Ugh. Your kids are at their friends house doing their homework (on a mac more likely) while you fiddle with replaceable keyboards. Man up and buy something decent for you family!
Well, of course. Every foreign worker hired is a job that doesn't go to an American worker.
Claiming that hiring foreign workers doesn't take jobs away from American workers is bizzaro logic at its best. Its the same bizzaro logic that said shutting down factories and sending millions of jobs to Mexico and China creates job for American workers.
Agreed
More importantly, the claim that these are "highly skilled workers" is a lie that insults our intelligence.
Why is it that all of these "highly skilled workers" come from the same place - a country where a huge percentage of the population is illiterate and lives in poverty far beyond anything that exists in the U.S. A country where 350 million people, more than the entire population of the U.S., shit in public because they don't have access to a toilet. How is it possible that such a country is producing such huge numbers of "highly skilled workers"?
Besides the rural population you already mentioned, there are another 350M middle class there, and yet another 350M there that are quite well off, have access to excellent schools thus becoming as "highly skilled" as a westerner.
That's right, it isn't possible. The only "skill" they possess is a willingness to work for low wages. And since the H1-B program is nothing more than legalized indentured servitude, companies can do anything they want without feat of being reported by the workers.
It is certainly possible, it's a fact. It's happening. There are over 4000 engineering colleges in India. There are way, way more comp-sci/engineering grads coming out of India than the USA. There are also over 100,000 Indian students (15,000 undergrad, 85 000 post grad) studying at US Schools - many of those will wind up using an H1B to stay in USA. And the few I have hired have been brilliant, talented, hard working people....
Uber rates are of course cheaper because the drivers don't pay outrageous fees for a special 'medallion' from a non-driving monopoly/corporate entity .Now, if the argument is that public subsidized taxi services can reduce drunk driving rates, then by all means, create public subsidies for taxis operating in areas and times that people often would otherwise drive drunk. Don't just use this hidden, across-the-board, everywhere-at-all-times subsidy-by-insurance-miscategorization.
but not fine with the "we make no mistakes so you can never be off the list" policy. All that is needed is a review process to remove people from the list.
Largely bullshit. In most jurisdictions the safety (and smog if applicable) inspections for all cars is the same, taxi or personal. There is no magic standard for cabs. You want to drive a 72 pinto as a cab, go right ahead. As long as it passes safety/smog or other checks you are good to go. Some large cities (ie NYC, London) have different standards, but pretty much every where else is whatever car you want. I've been to hundreds of cities all over the world, and 99% of the time the cabs look like every other car on the road in that area.
These rules solve a problem for the taxi industry, not the taxi industry customers. There is a difference.
Why was it made illegal again? To protect the taxi industry. That's it. Safety, insurance, etc were tacked on later, but the scarcity was created solely to protect the taxi industry - not the drivers, the plate holders
Do you see any other path to breaking the taxi industry monopoly other than disobedience? How?
The law is a living thing and constantly subject to interpretation and modification. Laws come and go, what is illegal comes and goes. Often, very often, the ONLY way to change the law is to break it first, making breaking it popular, and the lawmakers will come around.
Is it still illegal for woman to vote? Smoke a joint?
...and then some of them would quit which would bring the market back to normal - drivers make a living and there are enough of them to provide service.
I find it amusing that in the land of the 'free market' the free market for transportation is closed, largely due to excess regulation put in place at the request of an entrenched incumbent monopoly.
There are many other companies running these services, Lyft being the best know Uber competitor. Why should Joe be able to collect some cash driving people around?
I'll stick with Enterprise Architecture as the answer as they do exactly what the OP asks. There are plenty of books on the subject to get one started. Failure to properly implement in your organization is a different discussion.
Your view of property rights is pretty messed up. If monsanto doesn't want their seeds being blown by the wind, carried by birds etc, they need to build fences. If their seed lands on my land I can do whatever I want with it. Period. Only massive legal spending on a scale never before seen, and that could not be matched by Schmeiser enabled them to squeak out a victory. If they don't like the way nature work s- those pesky bees spreading pollen everywhere - they are welcome to leave the seed industry.
Your outrage is misplaced. You can indeed use the emergency brake in an emergency. I have done it. Many others have. It's not great, but it works.
When hydraulic brakes were introduced there was concern that if they failed, the driver would have no way to stop the vehicle. So, regulations were added to require every car with hyrdaulic (or electric) brakes to also have an Emergency brake that was totally manual and not connected to the hydraulic system. This was to satisfy FMVSS 105 (now replaced with FMVSS 135):
" Vehicles shall be capable of stopping under partial failure
of the service brake system, inoperative brake power assist unit or brake
power unit, antilock failure, variable proportioning valve failure, and with
the engine off"
There is a maximum distance and pedal pressure specified.
FMVSS 135 also states:
"Each vehicle shall be manufactured with a parking brake system which,
when engaged, shall be capable of holding the vehicle stationary on a
specified grade for a specified time. "
I have never seen a passenger vehicle with two separate systems, so the Emergency Brake is also the Parking Brake. Or handbrake if you prefer as it is manual brake.
Why would you NOT use the e-brake in an Emergency? You are barrelling down the highway at 70mph when your oil filter lets go. Your engine overheats and fails within seconds. Do you a) do nothing or b) use the ebrake to slow down and pull over? why would you not want to save your own life?
Sure, I just have an hour chat with the 300+ applicants for my latest posting. No sweat.
Certificates are a SIGNAL. They tell me you are serious about your career, you respect standards, you will use the same terminology as the rest of the team and you understand that not everything can be learned on the job. They are a cheap way of putting yourself ahead of other candidates.
So the real question is, why would you *not* pick up a new cert every 2 years or so? What possible justification could you have for refusing to educate yourself on industry standards? Other than burning desire to stay ignorant?
This debunking article, is, well, bunk.
The truth is 30 odd percent of Seagate 3tb drives failed in the first year. Pod version, pod type, pod size, usage, and internal vs shucked were all irrelevant. In fact, the external drives shucked failed less often than the internals even though they were exactly the same model. No other drive, bought at the same time and used in exactly the same way(s) had a failure rate like that. For example, the Seagate 4TB drives have one of the lowest failure rates, in exactly the same conditions as the 3TB model.
Actually email is one of the most *complex* servers to run. You think someone who is using their ISP email is going to go from that to their own server? Why?
The OP question was regarding SPAM filter's not working. You want a great SPAM filter - google is the best.
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No, we just read /. and dream of days past. Sometimes I don't even play ;)
How many seconds would it take before people figure out this is actually going to happen? Would 5s be the tipping point? 1 minute? An hour?
FTA:" Suniva Inc, a Georgia-based solar cell and panel maker that is backed by Goldman Sachs Group Inc, farms out a small portion of its manufacturing to federal inmates as part of a longstanding government program intended to prepare them for life after prison." Teaching prisoners useful skills is bad, if they learn a job while in there they may not re-offend and keep the prison supply system working. Or something like that?
1) promise unlimited something, quickly realize what everyone on earth already knew except for you, that is never going to work. Ever. 2) ??? 3) profit.
For the few of you that actually bothered to click on the article link, the picture shows some kind of really short cord with a plug at the end...
I don't know what the hell that is but it cannot be the cord the article is about, because the cord MS is sending is just the cord that goes between the power brick and Surface Pro, so it doesn't have a plug.
Also worth noting that the article summary might lad you to believe this was about the current Surface Pro, but it's not - Surface Pro 3 and older. Even then it does not apply to a Surface Pro 3 you'd buy new from Microsoft now, they ship with fixed cables already. It doesn't affect the Surface Pro 4 at all.
?? the cord that goes from the Sp3 to the brick is permanently attached. That can only be replaced by swapping out the brick itself. The *other* cord is the one being replaced, as shown in the pic.
SP3 owner here. They could have made the power adapter a wall wart - it isn't that big. Wallwart---cable--connector. Simple Instead they went wall--cable--brick---cable---connector. This just begs to have both cables wrapped around the brick when travelling. It's that first cable that breaks open. The second cable is much more robust, has the flexy thing at the joint and is permanently attached to the brick. the first cable is a standard type used in electric razors, old toshiba laptops etc. Very common part. And from the pic the replacement does not look anymore robust than the original...so will have exactly same issue....people will wrap it around the brick..and it will fail.
Yes they do, they actually write stuff. Sometime long in-depth articles that you can't get anywhere else. Unlike newspapers who mostly repost wire stories and want to charge for access to it, Wired has a long history of producing original content.
Could we start with requiring documentation? We just got a new FTTH Hub from our ISP. No manual. No instructions. Vendor has nothing online and refers to ISP insists who there is no known documentation for the Hub. Sagemcom f@st 5250 for those wondering. So not only is it non repairable it's non-troubleshootable and no way to tell anything about the device.
I feel sorry for your family. crappy phones, horribly slow tablets, junky laptops. Ugh. Your kids are at their friends house doing their homework (on a mac more likely) while you fiddle with replaceable keyboards. Man up and buy something decent for you family!
It's a conspiracy! A conspiracy I tell you! This has never happened before!
Well, of course. Every foreign worker hired is a job that doesn't go to an American worker.
Claiming that hiring foreign workers doesn't take jobs away from American workers is bizzaro logic at its best. Its the same bizzaro logic that said shutting down factories and sending millions of jobs to Mexico and China creates job for American workers.
Agreed
More importantly, the claim that these are "highly skilled workers" is a lie that insults our intelligence.
Why is it that all of these "highly skilled workers" come from the same place - a country where a huge percentage of the population is illiterate and lives in poverty far beyond anything that exists in the U.S. A country where 350 million people, more than the entire population of the U.S., shit in public because they don't have access to a toilet. How is it possible that such a country is producing such huge numbers of "highly skilled workers"?
Besides the rural population you already mentioned, there are another 350M middle class there, and yet another 350M there that are quite well off, have access to excellent schools thus becoming as "highly skilled" as a westerner.
That's right, it isn't possible. The only "skill" they possess is a willingness to work for low wages. And since the H1-B program is nothing more than legalized indentured servitude, companies can do anything they want without feat of being reported by the workers.
It is certainly possible, it's a fact. It's happening. There are over 4000 engineering colleges in India. There are way, way more comp-sci/engineering grads coming out of India than the USA. There are also over 100,000 Indian students (15,000 undergrad, 85 000 post grad) studying at US Schools - many of those will wind up using an H1B to stay in USA. And the few I have hired have been brilliant, talented, hard working people....
Uber rates are of course cheaper because the drivers don't pay outrageous fees for a special 'medallion' from a non-driving monopoly/corporate entity .Now, if the argument is that public subsidized taxi services can reduce drunk driving rates, then by all means, create public subsidies for taxis operating in areas and times that people often would otherwise drive drunk. Don't just use this hidden, across-the-board, everywhere-at-all-times subsidy-by-insurance-miscategorization.
FTFY.
but not fine with the "we make no mistakes so you can never be off the list" policy. All that is needed is a review process to remove people from the list.
These rules solve a problem for the taxi industry, not the taxi industry customers. There is a difference.
Why was it made illegal again? To protect the taxi industry. That's it. Safety, insurance, etc were tacked on later, but the scarcity was created solely to protect the taxi industry - not the drivers, the plate holders
Do you see any other path to breaking the taxi industry monopoly other than disobedience? How?
The law is a living thing and constantly subject to interpretation and modification. Laws come and go, what is illegal comes and goes. Often, very often, the ONLY way to change the law is to break it first, making breaking it popular, and the lawmakers will come around.
Is it still illegal for woman to vote? Smoke a joint?
...and then some of them would quit which would bring the market back to normal - drivers make a living and there are enough of them to provide service. I find it amusing that in the land of the 'free market' the free market for transportation is closed, largely due to excess regulation put in place at the request of an entrenched incumbent monopoly. There are many other companies running these services, Lyft being the best know Uber competitor. Why should Joe be able to collect some cash driving people around?
I'll stick with Enterprise Architecture as the answer as they do exactly what the OP asks. There are plenty of books on the subject to get one started. Failure to properly implement in your organization is a different discussion.
is this a trick question?
Your view of property rights is pretty messed up. If monsanto doesn't want their seeds being blown by the wind, carried by birds etc, they need to build fences. If their seed lands on my land I can do whatever I want with it. Period. Only massive legal spending on a scale never before seen, and that could not be matched by Schmeiser enabled them to squeak out a victory. If they don't like the way nature work s- those pesky bees spreading pollen everywhere - they are welcome to leave the seed industry.
When hydraulic brakes were introduced there was concern that if they failed, the driver would have no way to stop the vehicle. So, regulations were added to require every car with hyrdaulic (or electric) brakes to also have an Emergency brake that was totally manual and not connected to the hydraulic system. This was to satisfy FMVSS 105 (now replaced with FMVSS 135):
" Vehicles shall be capable of stopping under partial failure of the service brake system, inoperative brake power assist unit or brake power unit, antilock failure, variable proportioning valve failure, and with the engine off"
There is a maximum distance and pedal pressure specified.
FMVSS 135 also states:
"Each vehicle shall be manufactured with a parking brake system which, when engaged, shall be capable of holding the vehicle stationary on a specified grade for a specified time. "
I have never seen a passenger vehicle with two separate systems, so the Emergency Brake is also the Parking Brake. Or handbrake if you prefer as it is manual brake.
Why would you NOT use the e-brake in an Emergency? You are barrelling down the highway at 70mph when your oil filter lets go. Your engine overheats and fails within seconds. Do you a) do nothing or b) use the ebrake to slow down and pull over? why would you not want to save your own life?
Sure, I just have an hour chat with the 300+ applicants for my latest posting. No sweat. Certificates are a SIGNAL. They tell me you are serious about your career, you respect standards, you will use the same terminology as the rest of the team and you understand that not everything can be learned on the job. They are a cheap way of putting yourself ahead of other candidates. So the real question is, why would you *not* pick up a new cert every 2 years or so? What possible justification could you have for refusing to educate yourself on industry standards? Other than burning desire to stay ignorant?
This debunking article, is, well, bunk. The truth is 30 odd percent of Seagate 3tb drives failed in the first year. Pod version, pod type, pod size, usage, and internal vs shucked were all irrelevant. In fact, the external drives shucked failed less often than the internals even though they were exactly the same model. No other drive, bought at the same time and used in exactly the same way(s) had a failure rate like that. For example, the Seagate 4TB drives have one of the lowest failure rates, in exactly the same conditions as the 3TB model.
Actually email is one of the most *complex* servers to run. You think someone who is using their ISP email is going to go from that to their own server? Why? The OP question was regarding SPAM filter's not working. You want a great SPAM filter - google is the best.
They would much rather you join the 21st century and use any email service except theirs. Take the hint, choose Microsoft or Google and move on...
How would infecting their own customers PC help the distributors?