Thanks for posting the list of known "aliases" of TechieGold.com "partners". It'll give me a list of places to avoid next time I have to look for a job.
I dealt with Remington International in Chicago. They posted a job listing looking for people with experience in wireless internet and I replied. After a brief phone interview with a recruiter (which felt like a pressure sell from a used car guy), I filled out the stuff on TechiesGold.com and went downtown to talk to the recruiter/headhunter guy.
The open area where all the recruiters sat was a scene straight out of Boiler Room. Recruiters on the phones probably cold calling HR departments and hiring managers to see if they had any open positions. The recruiter and I sat at his desk in this open area and proceeded to talk about my resume and experience. I asked him about the job I actually applied for and he said he would look into that for me. At this point, I had a sinking feeling that the job posting was just to get me in the office and there really wasn't a position for wireless internet development. It was all bait and switch.
Some of the "rules" I had to follow with Remington International were a little odd. Recruiters would never call you if they had a position they'd like to interview for. You had to call them every few days to "check in" with them. Also, all interview information was done through the TechieGold.com website which wasn't exactly the most reliable website. And you had to call the recruiter immedialely after the interview to give him your impression of how it went. I could only imagine that if the interview went well, he would call the hiring manager immediately to get him to make an offer as soon as possible so he could get his commission (which one of the hiring managers marked on a copy of my resume at 20 percent).
I got a couple of interviews but after the first week, no more interviews. One company was interested in me but wasn't making a move yet on making an offer (it turns out they were balking at that 20 percent rate) so I continued to call the recruiter every two days like a good boy. I would ask him during those phone calls about the new job postings on TechieGold.com that I thought fit my skills and experience perfectly. He always said he would look into it but I never heard back from him until one time I mentioned a job on TechieGold.com at ABN Amro that looked interesting. He said he would try and set me up with an interview.
A few hours later, there was a new message in my TechieGold mailbox about an interview set up for next week. The day of the interview, I put on my suit, hoped on the 8:00am train to the loop for a 9am interview. I showed up at the building only to find out that the person I was interviewing with was on vacation. Not only was she on vacation, she had been on vacation for the week previous as well. In other words, she was on vacation at the same time the recruiter guy supposedly set up an interview for me with her. Hmmmm....
The company that was interested eventually passed on me. That's okay. They didn't give vacation until after your one year anniversary and the machines the developers used had 13" monitors. They also expected their software developers to train people to use the software they developed which required 20% travel during rollouts. Very odd.
So if you are looking for a job or looking for a new hire, avoid the TechieGold.com companies at all costs. Caveat Emptor.
"Such claims, if approved, will take settlement benefits away from legitimate class members and from California's public schools, which will receive vouchers worth two-thirds of any unclaimed settlement funds."
Wow... Microsoft is so benevolent... two-thirds of unclaimed funds in vouchers! Weeeeee...
Anybody who is interested in democracy and liberty and how democracy doesn't necessary ensure liberty, should read Fareed Zakaria's "The Future of Freedom". It talks a lot about the problems that democracy brings without ensuring liberty via rule of law, checks and balances, constitutions, etc.
He has once interesting chapter about the United States in the book and how lobbyists have cause problems in our legislative system. Lobbyists represent the "tyranny of the minority" with their special interests and their ability to ride the legislative process every step of the way from committee to the floor. If a lobbyist attending a session doesn't like a phrase being proposed in a bill, he calls his staff on a cell phone and arranges letters, faxes and emails to flood the reprsentative or senator to ensure that the phrase gets quashed.
It is amusing when Reed tells us that it is our job to make sure we have representatives that reflect our views. I don't think the normal public has the time or ability to watch the legislature to the extent that lobbyists do to ensure that our views are reflected by our representative. I think maybe that's the whole strategy of lobbyists in the first place. But then again I might be a little cynical.
Except if it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck...
Does this lobbyist think that we are naive enough to tell us that our "lack of knowledge" is clouding our judgement about how much influence lobbyists and campaign contributions are having on the legislative process? Can you explain to me how Senator Hollings from South Carolina (aka, the Senator from Disney) is representing his constituents with bills he has backed such as the DCMA and SSSCA.
I think the insiders have become too accustomed to "that's just the way things work" way of thinking. The lobbyists perpetuate that line of thinking through wanting to preserve their own jobs.
You are statisically more likely to be hit than to hit someone.
*rubs eyes* huhwha? What difference does it make who hits who? If some on coming truck swerves into your lane and hits you head on, sure semantically he hit you but from the perspective of just the pure physics of momentum, that energy isn't going to care who swerved into what lane.
The rationalization that SUV owners go through to justify their purchases has to be some of the most fatalistic thinking I have ever seen. The assumption (from the logic above) is that you're going to be in an accident. There is nothing you can do to prevent it. Of course, if you buy an SUV , there IS nothing you can do to prevent it in all likelihood because you opted to buy a vehicle that isn't exactly known for its a) lack of blind spots, b) ability to stop quickly or c) ability to swerve to avoid an accident without rolling over
Isn't this basically what companies like RedHat provide? RedHat's shipped kernel is a kernel that has been tested and has been fixed either with bug fixes from the kernel tree or internal fixes to fix problems that occured during testing. And if you'd rather have rock solid rather than bleeding edge, there is always the RedHat Advanced Server distribution...
You also have to remember that the kernel is only one piece in system availability. You also have to make sure the hardware is up to snuff. There is a reason why Sun Enterprise servers cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. It isn't because Sun is buying memory from a selling it found on Pricewatch.
I think the original poster was trying to distinguish a NEED from a WANT. The college kids/soccer moms/etc. don't NEED a cell phone. They WANT a cell phone. But marketing and peer pressure have convinced them that the NEED a call phone which is what marketing is supposed to do. Does marketing change "reality"? No. However it changes the perception of reality that in turn drives sales.
I am so glad that I finished college way before the cell phone craze started. The meetings where the cellphones continuously ring drive me crazy enough, I can't imagine lectures would be like with half the students carrying cell phones.
You can't take this too seriously...
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From the FAQ:
Q. I love the idea of the FSP, but I only want to live someplace warm -- I'd never make it in those cold states. Can't you make a warmer state an option?
Which could be read as:
I want liberty but my political beliefs end at having to buy a winter coat.
I hate to be one of those people but "Why is this on the front page of Slashdot?"
This and other "political" movements that want liberty is usually about one issue that they feel the government has too much power or has taken rights away from them and given them to some other group. Sometimes the trigger point is gun control. Sometimes it is affirmative action. Usually "liberty" in this case is the freedom to do whatever you want without being responsible for how your actions affect your family, your neighbors or your community or society as a whole.
You are obviously not familiar with Henry Rollins or his work. The man is extremely intelligent and articulate. To stereotype somebody because he is buff is pretty lame.
I find it interesting that you place Battlebots in the same tradition as Junkyard Wars. I fail to see what they have in common. JYW is an entertaining show with a lot to teach about engineering and science concepts. Battlebots is just an update of the demolition derby. They are NOT in the same league.
The fourth amendment which states the rights of people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects.
If you wanted to sum it all up in a few words, "right to privacy" is what that amendment is all about. But don't let the fact get in the way of a good rant.:)
Dude... turn off the computer and turn back on Fox News. They're giving you instructions on how to round up the liberals. Apprently, you can spot them easily because they have to wear eyeglasses due to reading so many books they get their garbage liberal ideas from.
Oh and the word is "fuck"... not "fsck". If you're going to call somebody's status as a human being into question because of their political views, at least have the balls to actually use the right word.
As a human being, I find these people's willing scientific illiteracy upsetting.
Unfortunately, the problem won't go away since these people tend to breed a lot more due to their ignorance of sex education (because it tells people how to have sex and sin!) and contraceptives. Their ignorant children will populate the planet and sit around thinking that dinosaurs and people lived at the same time and that fossils were put in rocks to test Christian faith.
To be honest, this 'pledge' sounds very conservative and a bit like an old patriotic communist system.
The punchline, from what I understand of the history of the addition of "under God" to the Pledge, is that it was added during the communist hysteria. Communists didn't believe in God so if we made everybody pledge "under God" then communism would go away.
I did some searchs on the filer of the patents included on PanIP's website and found this interesting federal court decision .
Basically Mr. Lockwood tried to sue American Airlines over their SABRE system using the '359 patent and the district court found that SABRE did not violate the patents due to prior art (like the fact that SABRE has been around since 1962). The linked decision is an appeal that Mr. Lockwood made to the federal appeals court that was rejected. Worth a good read to see how it would apply here.
This kinda bugged me too so I decided to go to the State of California website and do a lookup to see if the company was actually registered. It was.
PANIP, LLC Number: 200207410071 Date Filed: 3/12/2002 Status: active Jurisdiction: CALIFORNIA Principal Address 1168 VIRGINIA WAY LA JOLLA, CA 92037 Agent for Service of Process WILLIAM G WILHELM 1168 VIRGINIA WAY LA JOLLA, CA 92037
The date filed part is interesting... the principal address and the agent for service of process entries might just be the address for their lawyer however.
If anybody is feeling really interested, you can pay to get copies their records which I'm sure list the names who is actually running the company from the same website.
Along with the usual arguments of allocating bandwidth in ways that the large majority of consumers will use it (surfing the web, reading email, etc.) I would think that engineering a base radio that could receive up to 2.4Mbps from a small low powered radio (the battery operated cell modem) might be very difficult and certainly very expensive.
And the cell modem itself would probably go through its batteries very quickly at sustained throughputs of 2.4Mbps.
You are not alone. To me it seemed extremely sloppy from the start of the show when we had to sit through a wide shot of Tom Cruise giving his opening monologue before somebody wised up and decided to go in for a closeup. It was all downhill from there.
What the heck was up with the after speech pan from the current winners to Cirque Du Soleil rehearsing in the background to some swopping tilted angle shot of Cruella De Ville and Hawkeye.
It was also, in the immortal words of Casey Casem "fucking ponderous, man".
Oh I don't know... considering the music industry is the one of the main proponents of the SSSCA that wants to require digital rights management in all computer hardware and software because there is oh so much piracy... can you see where I'm going with this?
If DRM is embedded in all computers and software, how are you going to play those MP3s you get off of a P2P service?
"Slashdunk: news for lawyers, stuff that splatters"
Damn that's witty. Did you spend all day thinking that one up?
I think Taco would be better off dropping the subscription thing and instead bill people who whine incessantly "This isn't Nerd News!"
But hey, everytime those people post their whine they DO generate another page view and that's revenue I guess. Oh well.:)
Now I remember the reason I left Silicon Valley. The only maps you could buy in SV had everything east of Sacramento marked as "terra incognito".
I think you need to actually visit more places than your one bus stop to actually know what the state of the other high tech areas in the country are really like so you won't show your ignorance making incorrect generalizations.
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Thanks for posting the list of known "aliases" of TechieGold.com "partners". It'll give me a list of places to avoid next time I have to look for a job.
I dealt with Remington International in Chicago. They posted a job listing looking for people with experience in wireless internet and I replied. After a brief phone interview with a recruiter (which felt like a pressure sell from a used car guy), I filled out the stuff on TechiesGold.com and went downtown to talk to the recruiter/headhunter guy.
The open area where all the recruiters sat was a scene straight out of Boiler Room. Recruiters on the phones probably cold calling HR departments and hiring managers to see if they had any open positions. The recruiter and I sat at his desk in this open area and proceeded to talk about my resume and experience. I asked him about the job I actually applied for and he said he would look into that for me. At this point, I had a sinking feeling that the job posting was just to get me in the office and there really wasn't a position for wireless internet development. It was all bait and switch.
Some of the "rules" I had to follow with Remington International were a little odd. Recruiters would never call you if they had a position they'd like to interview for. You had to call them every few days to "check in" with them. Also, all interview information was done through the TechieGold.com website which wasn't exactly the most reliable website. And you had to call the recruiter immedialely after the interview to give him your impression of how it went. I could only imagine that if the interview went well, he would call the hiring manager immediately to get him to make an offer as soon as possible so he could get his commission (which one of the hiring managers marked on a copy of my resume at 20 percent).
I got a couple of interviews but after the first week, no more interviews. One company was interested in me but wasn't making a move yet on making an offer (it turns out they were balking at that 20 percent rate) so I continued to call the recruiter every two days like a good boy. I would ask him during those phone calls about the new job postings on TechieGold.com that I thought fit my skills and experience perfectly. He always said he would look into it but I never heard back from him until one time I mentioned a job on TechieGold.com at ABN Amro that looked interesting. He said he would try and set me up with an interview.
A few hours later, there was a new message in my TechieGold mailbox about an interview set up for next week. The day of the interview, I put on my suit, hoped on the 8:00am train to the loop for a 9am interview. I showed up at the building only to find out that the person I was interviewing with was on vacation. Not only was she on vacation, she had been on vacation for the week previous as well. In other words, she was on vacation at the same time the recruiter guy supposedly set up an interview for me with her. Hmmmm....
The company that was interested eventually passed on me. That's okay. They didn't give vacation until after your one year anniversary and the machines the developers used had 13" monitors. They also expected their software developers to train people to use the software they developed which required 20% travel during rollouts. Very odd.
So if you are looking for a job or looking for a new hire, avoid the TechieGold.com companies at all costs. Caveat Emptor.
"Such claims, if approved, will take settlement benefits away from legitimate class members and from California's public schools, which will receive vouchers worth two-thirds of any unclaimed settlement funds."
Wow... Microsoft is so benevolent... two-thirds of unclaimed funds in vouchers! Weeeeee...
Umm... the patent was filed in 1994 before Mosaic or event Netscape had plugins?
Anybody who is interested in democracy and liberty and how democracy doesn't necessary ensure liberty, should read Fareed Zakaria's "The Future of Freedom". It talks a lot about the problems that democracy brings without ensuring liberty via rule of law, checks and balances, constitutions, etc.
He has once interesting chapter about the United States in the book and how lobbyists have cause problems in our legislative system. Lobbyists represent the "tyranny of the minority" with their special interests and their ability to ride the legislative process every step of the way from committee to the floor. If a lobbyist attending a session doesn't like a phrase being proposed in a bill, he calls his staff on a cell phone and arranges letters, faxes and emails to flood the reprsentative or senator to ensure that the phrase gets quashed.
It is amusing when Reed tells us that it is our job to make sure we have representatives that reflect our views. I don't think the normal public has the time or ability to watch the legislature to the extent that lobbyists do to ensure that our views are reflected by our representative. I think maybe that's the whole strategy of lobbyists in the first place. But then again I might be a little cynical.
Except if it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck...
Does this lobbyist think that we are naive enough to tell us that our "lack of knowledge" is clouding our judgement about how much influence lobbyists and campaign contributions are having on the legislative process? Can you explain to me how Senator Hollings from South Carolina (aka, the Senator from Disney) is representing his constituents with bills he has backed such as the DCMA and SSSCA.
I think the insiders have become too accustomed to "that's just the way things work" way of thinking. The lobbyists perpetuate that line of thinking through wanting to preserve their own jobs.
*rubs eyes* huhwha? What difference does it make who hits who? If some on coming truck swerves into your lane and hits you head on, sure semantically he hit you but from the perspective of just the pure physics of momentum, that energy isn't going to care who swerved into what lane.
The rationalization that SUV owners go through to justify their purchases has to be some of the most fatalistic thinking I have ever seen. The assumption (from the logic above) is that you're going to be in an accident. There is nothing you can do to prevent it. Of course, if you buy an SUV , there IS nothing you can do to prevent it in all likelihood because you opted to buy a vehicle that isn't exactly known for its a) lack of blind spots, b) ability to stop quickly or c) ability to swerve to avoid an accident without rolling over
Apparently a 9.0 is stopping a 8.1 from appearing however...
Isn't this basically what companies like RedHat provide? RedHat's shipped kernel is a kernel that has been tested and has been fixed either with bug fixes from the kernel tree or internal fixes to fix problems that occured during testing. And if you'd rather have rock solid rather than bleeding edge, there is always the RedHat Advanced Server distribution...
You also have to remember that the kernel is only one piece in system availability. You also have to make sure the hardware is up to snuff. There is a reason why Sun Enterprise servers cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. It isn't because Sun is buying memory from a selling it found on Pricewatch.
I think the original poster was trying to distinguish a NEED from a WANT. The college kids/soccer moms/etc. don't NEED a cell phone. They WANT a cell phone. But marketing and peer pressure have convinced them that the NEED a call phone which is what marketing is supposed to do. Does marketing change "reality"? No. However it changes the perception of reality that in turn drives sales.
I am so glad that I finished college way before the cell phone craze started. The meetings where the cellphones continuously ring drive me crazy enough, I can't imagine lectures would be like with half the students carrying cell phones.
From the FAQ:
Q. I love the idea of the FSP, but I only want to live someplace warm -- I'd never make it in those cold states. Can't you make a warmer state an option?
Which could be read as:
I want liberty but my political beliefs end at having to buy a winter coat.
I hate to be one of those people but "Why is this on the front page of Slashdot?"
This and other "political" movements that want liberty is usually about one issue that they feel the government has too much power or has taken rights away from them and given them to some other group. Sometimes the trigger point is gun control. Sometimes it is affirmative action. Usually "liberty" in this case is the freedom to do whatever you want without being responsible for how your actions affect your family, your neighbors or your community or society as a whole.
You are obviously not familiar with Henry Rollins or his work. The man is extremely intelligent and articulate. To stereotype somebody because he is buff is pretty lame.
I find it interesting that you place Battlebots in the same tradition as Junkyard Wars. I fail to see what they have in common. JYW is an entertaining show with a lot to teach about engineering and science concepts. Battlebots is just an update of the demolition derby. They are NOT in the same league.
The fourth amendment which states the rights of people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects.
:)
If you wanted to sum it all up in a few words, "right to privacy" is what that amendment is all about. But don't let the fact get in the way of a good rant.
I think you kinda lose the credibility in your argument when your "homepage" is a page on a white supremacist site... but maybe that's just me... :)
Dude... turn off the computer and turn back on Fox News. They're giving you instructions on how to round up the liberals. Apprently, you can spot them easily because they have to wear eyeglasses due to reading so many books they get their garbage liberal ideas from.
Oh and the word is "fuck"... not "fsck". If you're going to call somebody's status as a human being into question because of their political views, at least have the balls to actually use the right word.
As a human being, I find these people's willing scientific illiteracy upsetting.
Unfortunately, the problem won't go away since these people tend to breed a lot more due to their ignorance of sex education (because it tells people how to have sex and sin!) and contraceptives. Their ignorant children will populate the planet and sit around thinking that dinosaurs and people lived at the same time and that fossils were put in rocks to test Christian faith.
The punchline, from what I understand of the history of the addition of "under God" to the Pledge, is that it was added during the communist hysteria. Communists didn't believe in God so if we made everybody pledge "under God" then communism would go away.
Not if they found oil up there... :)
Right on... with all that americanization going on, that stick up your ass might actually get start to feel uncomfortable.
I did some searchs on the filer of the patents included on PanIP's website and found this interesting federal court decision .
Basically Mr. Lockwood tried to sue American Airlines over their SABRE system using the '359 patent and the district court found that SABRE did not violate the patents due to prior art (like the fact that SABRE has been around since 1962). The linked decision is an appeal that Mr. Lockwood made to the federal appeals court that was rejected. Worth a good read to see how it would apply here.
This kinda bugged me too so I decided to go to the State of California website and do a lookup to see if the company was actually registered. It was.
PANIP, LLC Number: 200207410071
Date Filed: 3/12/2002
Status: active
Jurisdiction: CALIFORNIA
Principal Address
1168 VIRGINIA WAY LA JOLLA, CA 92037
Agent for Service of Process
WILLIAM G WILHELM
1168 VIRGINIA WAY LA JOLLA, CA 92037
The date filed part is interesting... the principal address and the agent for service of process entries might just be the address for their lawyer however.
If anybody is feeling really interested, you can pay to get copies their records which I'm sure list the names who is actually running the company from the same website.
Along with the usual arguments of allocating bandwidth in ways that the large majority of consumers will use it (surfing the web, reading email, etc.) I would think that engineering a base radio that could receive up to 2.4Mbps from a small low powered radio (the battery operated cell modem) might be very difficult and certainly very expensive.
And the cell modem itself would probably go through its batteries very quickly at sustained throughputs of 2.4Mbps.
You are not alone. To me it seemed extremely sloppy from the start of the show when we had to sit through a wide shot of Tom Cruise giving his opening monologue before somebody wised up and decided to go in for a closeup. It was all downhill from there.
What the heck was up with the after speech pan from the current winners to Cirque Du Soleil rehearsing in the background to some swopping tilted angle shot of Cruella De Ville and Hawkeye.
It was also, in the immortal words of Casey Casem "fucking ponderous, man".
"I fail to see the relevance for nerds here."
:)
Oh I don't know... considering the music industry is the one of the main proponents of the SSSCA that wants to require digital rights management in all computer hardware and software because there is oh so much piracy... can you see where I'm going with this?
If DRM is embedded in all computers and software, how are you going to play those MP3s you get off of a P2P service?
"Slashdunk: news for lawyers, stuff that splatters"
Damn that's witty. Did you spend all day thinking that one up?
I think Taco would be better off dropping the subscription thing and instead bill people who whine incessantly "This isn't Nerd News!"
But hey, everytime those people post their whine they DO generate another page view and that's revenue I guess. Oh well.
Now I remember the reason I left Silicon Valley. The only maps you could buy in SV had everything east of Sacramento marked as "terra incognito".
I think you need to actually visit more places than your one bus stop to actually know what the state of the other high tech areas in the country are really like so you won't show your ignorance making incorrect generalizations.