But I probably wouldn't care if my programmer got busted for possession of marijuana or something like that.
Maybe you've never had the pleasure of working with a bunch of stoners (or even one or two). I have. They are a burden on the other employees, a drain on the company, and in many situations (including programming) can be downright dangerous. I have hired programmers and I would certainly choose a non-stoner over a stoner if other talents were even close, no matter if the stoner had a criminal record or not.
The stoners I have worked with have all been pretty hard working and typically only indulge in some weed after hours, and usually only on the weekends.
Since it's getting increasingly unacceptable to ask about and disqualify candidates who have criminal records...
One reason is that having a criminal record is not correlated with poor performance for most jobs. It may be sensible to run a criminal background check if you are hiring a cashier, but not if you are hiring a carpenter or a programmer.
I would say that depends. I would not want to hire a carpenter that has a history of robbing the houses they are working on or a programmer who has a history of putting exploits into his code in order to later hack companies he's work for. But I probably wouldn't care if my programmer got busted for possession of marijuana or something like that.
... there are certain laws that Uber is required to comply with if it wishes to hire workers, whether they be contractors or actual employees... they should not be able to require private arbitration against drivers who are trying to force Uber to live up to their legal obligations as an employer... I believe that binding arbitration clauses are decidedly unfair and biased in favor of the company demanding the contract at the expense of the person who is forced to accept that contract
I don't doubt that you believe that the arbitration clause is unfair and biased -- but what you (or I) believe is irrelevant here, since it is the drivers who signed the contract. They evidently didn't believe the clause was unfair or biased -- after all they signed a the contract. We should respect their judgement.
So you're suggesting that I should allow someone to be taken advantage of without speaking my mind or exerting whatever influence I may have over the matter? It is very naive to assume that all these Uber drivers entered into these agreements willfully and not out of some sort of coercion. Whether that coercion is financial or physical does not matter. Why would these drivers be requesting that a judge allow them to bypass these binding arbitration clauses if the drivers thought that they were fair to begin with? It seems to me that the mere existence of these lawsuits against Uber demonstrates that such coercion does exist.
As far as I know, drivers aren't forced (by operation of law or against the law) to drive for Uber
While this may be the case, there are certain laws that Uber is required to comply with if it wishes to hire workers, whether they be contractors or actual employees. They may not, and in my opinion are not, following many of these laws and they should not be able to require private arbitration against drivers who are trying to force Uber to live up to their legal obligations as an employer. In fact, I believe that binding arbitration clauses are decidedly unfair and biased in favor of the company demanding the contract at the expense of the person who is forced to accept that contract if they choose to do business with that company. You may laugh and say that they can always do business with another company. While that is true - the fact of the matter is that if Uber gets away with forcing binding arbitration on those who should be classified as employees, then other companies will follow suit and you will not have any choice but to accept binding arbitration or start your own company.
Are you telling me you can't find a handful of smart kids in your Computer Science department that would rather do remedial computer work than work at the mall? You've literally got an entire department of unemployed cheap labor and you are looking to India? That doesn't speak too highly about your graduates...
UCSF does not have a computer science department. Every single student at UCSF already has a bachelors degree in some field or another and is currently pursuing a graduate degree in some medically related field - whether that be a medical doctor, nurse practitioner, dentistry, or some other healthcare related field.
This is why I am waiting for the iPhone 7s. It's going to remove the Lightning plug and all you have to do is say a 4 hour prayer to save Steve Job's soul every day to charge the device.
Just for giggles I went there and put in my throw away email that I use to register to crap. apparently I was "pwned" in the myspace hack.
Funny thing is I've never had a myspace account. Ever.
i'm not calling bullshit, but when the site tells me I'm owned and asks for a donation, I'm going to question it. But I know 100% I have never registered a myspace account.
And you're sure that you've been the only person to own that email address? My throw away email address got leaked in a hack and someone used it to sign up for an instagram account without my knowledge or consent. I get emails from Instagram all the time saying that there is suspicious activity associated with the account i never created. So one day I went to instagram and did the password recovery on that throw away account and, sure enough, they let someone create and use an account without me ever authenticating the email address.
No, I'm pretty sure it must be something else. I live in the land of the Prius and haven't seen any hypermiling in the left lane at 40mph.
It must be something else, maybe related to whatever causes people to engage in hyperbole.
So what, you think hundreds of thousands of people hate prius drivers for no apparent reason? Its like an "OMG that guy can afford a hybrid and I can't" jealousy? I don't live in the land of the prius but I agree with the Colorado AC who also replied to you. It's (almost) always a pick-up truck or a prius that is blocking traffic in the left hand lane.
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In suburban south Eastern PA, they refused to pick me up from the bar, so much for the call a cab campaign, but they may be an uber dead zone too.
As for California, in San Francisco, I used uber as a convenient way to get an official cab.
I'm sure it all depends on where you are. I've never tried a NYC cab or somewhere like that but I know my experience in Boston with a taxi wasn't amazing. It was easy enough to get a taxi but the driver was very difficult to communicate with and didn't know the city at all. I ended up pulling up my destination on google maps and directed him there myself.
Some people properly insulate their house,... and also drive a Prius.
That driving a Prius is pretty effortless isn't a bad thing, though some people seem to take a dislike to people who Do Something like driving a Prius, I'm not sure why.
Usually because you find them trying to hyper mile in the left hand lane of the interstate/highway going about 30 under the speed limit while they watch their MPG or L/100km gauge instead of the road.
Where do you live that taxis are a viable alternative?
I saw someone at work wait 2 hours for a cab, uber had three drivers in 10 minute range (if I knew her I would have offered to call one).
My house has a thirty minute wait for cab, uber 5.
I've been areas where can companies have refused to route a ten minute drive, uber, shows up in ten, no complaints.
In the larger cities uber may be competing on price, but in much of the country, it's convenience and reliability.
When I was in New Orleans, $8 cab ride from bourbon st, I frequently paid uber surge of $15 to get into town (could flag a cab the other way, but took 30-60 minutes to call from where I was sleeping). In the college town I grew up (Newark, DE) cabs were useless, in Wilmington, DE where I love now, they're bad.
I fully expect uber to start creeping up prices in areas and make a killing, out side of downtown in million person plus cities, cabs aren't an option.
I have never lived anywhere that has had a 2 hour wait for a taxi. I live on an island right now with a very low population density and could get a taxi to my door in 10 minutes if I called the dispatcher. And that's with them coming from the city next door. There's a bridge to the island, obviously, not a ferry. I have lived in California and Florida and have been all over the US and have actually seen instances in California where it is faster to get a taxi than to get an uber. That's rare, but it can happen if you're in an area near a popular taxi stand. And I've never lived downtown anywhere, ever.
If you use the Facebook app, it has a feature to turn off the autoplaying videos as you are expected to be on mobile data networks, and they don't want you to incur a huge bill as it would reflect negatively on them.
I wish they would understand that NO ONE likes autoplaying videos, but many companies don't seem to get that (CNN is horrible about it, to the point of working around autoplay blockers).
Why would you make "Autoplay Videos on Cellular Networks" the default setting? And then their own CTO or some other exec was just saying a month or two ago that they expect all the content on there to be video in the next 5 years. No thanks. But I agree, CNN is especially bad. If I wanted to see the news instead of reading it, I would turn on CNN instead of go to their website.
Uber has actually made money in certain financial quarters. Webvan and Pets.com didn't. Uber rates can go up and people will still use them: what is the alternative?
Stop loading tens of megabytes without my direct consent.
Stop taking control away from me and making me have to jump through hoops to get it back.
If I want to watch a video I will goddamned well click on the PLAY button. If I do not click on the PLAY button chances are the video was not interesting to me in the first place.
I used to use Facebook when I was waiting in doctors offices and other boring places to catch up on family while I had time to kill. I don't anymore because it has just become a non-stop stream of autoplaying video. That's exactly how I want to kill my phone battery, Facebook! How did you know? It's so stupid.
I don't even have a twitter account and you know they aren't going to believe that. I was listening to the radio this morning and they were talking about roommates and pretty much everyone on the radioshow said they wouldn't trust anyone who they couldn't find on Twitter because not having an account is somehow suspicious to them. What the hell is this world coming to?
Why can't rightscorp go after Tier 1 ISPs for all the evil bytes transmitted over their networks?
Oh god no! Yesterday someone taught me that there are evil bits. Now you're telling me that there are WHOLE BYTES that are evil? My god, where is the pope? We need to have us a good old fashioned internet exorcism!
That's good. I've never had a problem with Windows 10. That doesn't change the fact that it's out there and that there's message boards full of issues. Some of them are very well documented, e.g. the default behaviour of many Ubuntu versions was to reverse lookup DNS on connection regardless if it had the capability to do so. Interestingly enough the first google search was related to 12.04 LTS and avahi, a version which I personally had no issues with.
Point is that there's millions of systems out there very few alike, but as the parent says systemd is the source of every problem because he's never had an issue before.
I wasn't trying to refute your claim that there was a problem. That's why I was asking if you had seen that delay with other distros because I was curious if there was some common bug in sshd or if there was some problem that appeared to be Ubuntu specific.
No, I don't think you get it at all. It is sharing if you were making the trip anyway.
My brother and I shared my parents' cars all the time while we went to different destinations, or even when only one of us needed a ride but couldn't without help (not 16 yet). Sharing the exact same trip is not the only way to share a vehicle.
Ok, did you and your brother exchange payment for these services rendered? Or did you have some regulatory body (your parents) require that you meet certain conditions in order to participate in this "ride sharing" service that you discuss? Besides, what you are describing has nothing to do whatsoever with business.
I agree there is very little fundamentally different between ride sharing companies and taxis.
I didn't specifically call them a taxi, I called them a livery service. There are different rules and regulations for both but Uber is typically not compliant with the rules and regulations for either.
Ride sharing is simply a way of providing a better (cheaper) service by finding drivers who don't need to make a living doing it, and bypassing onerous regulations, so they can offer far lower rates.
Great so we are in agreement that they bypass the rules and that's how they provide a cheaper service. But as I already mentioned, they were late to the game in using an app to dispatch services. But are you really suggesting that Uber drivers do so because they "don't need to make a living" and are doing this out of the kindness of their hearts? Wow. Maybe these Uber drivers should start deducting their rides from their taxes. Why does Uber take such a large cut if the whole point of this service is altruism? Oh that's right, Uber is a business and the drivers do it for money so no that argument doesn't work either. Sorry.
Overall it creates a drastically better experience for anyone not currently employed by taxi companies, as evidenced by every single person I have eve talked to about their Uber vs taxi experiences.
That's probably debatable on where you solicit a ride from an Uber driver just like it varies based on where you solicit a taxi.
And if anecdotal evidence isn't good enough, as evidenced by their increasing market share.
No I believe that their increase in marketshare is due to people's desire to save a dollar or two wherever they can. Walmart is one of the worst places to shop in the world, yet millions of people do it to save $20 a week on groceries. Not because Walmart provided a better service than say Target. For the needs of that specific demographic, they value the $20 more than they value the aggravation that going to Walmart entails. If Uber does anything beneficial to society, I think the marginally lower prices sometimes result in people getting an Uber instead of driving drunk but I think a recent study has debunked that theory, as well.
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But I probably wouldn't care if my programmer got busted for possession of marijuana or something like that.
Maybe you've never had the pleasure of working with a bunch of stoners (or even one or two). I have. They are a burden on the other employees, a drain on the company, and in many situations (including programming) can be downright dangerous. I have hired programmers and I would certainly choose a non-stoner over a stoner if other talents were even close, no matter if the stoner had a criminal record or not.
The stoners I have worked with have all been pretty hard working and typically only indulge in some weed after hours, and usually only on the weekends.
Since it's getting increasingly unacceptable to ask about and disqualify candidates who have criminal records ...
One reason is that having a criminal record is not correlated with poor performance for most jobs. It may be sensible to run a criminal background check if you are hiring a cashier, but not if you are hiring a carpenter or a programmer.
I would say that depends. I would not want to hire a carpenter that has a history of robbing the houses they are working on or a programmer who has a history of putting exploits into his code in order to later hack companies he's work for. But I probably wouldn't care if my programmer got busted for possession of marijuana or something like that.
Actually very few V2 were sent from France, most launch sites were in Belgium and the Netherlands.
The first V2 was sent in September 1994.
I KNEW Hitler was a time traveler!!
I don't doubt that you believe that the arbitration clause is unfair and biased -- but what you (or I) believe is irrelevant here, since it is the drivers who signed the contract. They evidently didn't believe the clause was unfair or biased -- after all they signed a the contract. We should respect their judgement.
So you're suggesting that I should allow someone to be taken advantage of without speaking my mind or exerting whatever influence I may have over the matter? It is very naive to assume that all these Uber drivers entered into these agreements willfully and not out of some sort of coercion. Whether that coercion is financial or physical does not matter. Why would these drivers be requesting that a judge allow them to bypass these binding arbitration clauses if the drivers thought that they were fair to begin with? It seems to me that the mere existence of these lawsuits against Uber demonstrates that such coercion does exist.
As far as I know, drivers aren't forced (by operation of law or against the law) to drive for Uber
While this may be the case, there are certain laws that Uber is required to comply with if it wishes to hire workers, whether they be contractors or actual employees. They may not, and in my opinion are not, following many of these laws and they should not be able to require private arbitration against drivers who are trying to force Uber to live up to their legal obligations as an employer. In fact, I believe that binding arbitration clauses are decidedly unfair and biased in favor of the company demanding the contract at the expense of the person who is forced to accept that contract if they choose to do business with that company. You may laugh and say that they can always do business with another company. While that is true - the fact of the matter is that if Uber gets away with forcing binding arbitration on those who should be classified as employees, then other companies will follow suit and you will not have any choice but to accept binding arbitration or start your own company.
Are you telling me you can't find a handful of smart kids in your Computer Science department that would rather do remedial computer work than work at the mall? You've literally got an entire department of unemployed cheap labor and you are looking to India? That doesn't speak too highly about your graduates...
UCSF does not have a computer science department. Every single student at UCSF already has a bachelors degree in some field or another and is currently pursuing a graduate degree in some medically related field - whether that be a medical doctor, nurse practitioner, dentistry, or some other healthcare related field.
This is why I am waiting for the iPhone 7s. It's going to remove the Lightning plug and all you have to do is say a 4 hour prayer to save Steve Job's soul every day to charge the device.
Just for giggles I went there and put in my throw away email that I use to register to crap. apparently I was "pwned" in the myspace hack. Funny thing is I've never had a myspace account. Ever. i'm not calling bullshit, but when the site tells me I'm owned and asks for a donation, I'm going to question it. But I know 100% I have never registered a myspace account.
And you're sure that you've been the only person to own that email address? My throw away email address got leaked in a hack and someone used it to sign up for an instagram account without my knowledge or consent. I get emails from Instagram all the time saying that there is suspicious activity associated with the account i never created. So one day I went to instagram and did the password recovery on that throw away account and, sure enough, they let someone create and use an account without me ever authenticating the email address.
No, I'm pretty sure it must be something else. I live in the land of the Prius and haven't seen any hypermiling in the left lane at 40mph.
It must be something else, maybe related to whatever causes people to engage in hyperbole.
So what, you think hundreds of thousands of people hate prius drivers for no apparent reason? Its like an "OMG that guy can afford a hybrid and I can't" jealousy? I don't live in the land of the prius but I agree with the Colorado AC who also replied to you. It's (almost) always a pick-up truck or a prius that is blocking traffic in the left hand lane.
This was already posted last week:
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In suburban south Eastern PA, they refused to pick me up from the bar, so much for the call a cab campaign, but they may be an uber dead zone too.
As for California, in San Francisco, I used uber as a convenient way to get an official cab.
I'm sure it all depends on where you are. I've never tried a NYC cab or somewhere like that but I know my experience in Boston with a taxi wasn't amazing. It was easy enough to get a taxi but the driver was very difficult to communicate with and didn't know the city at all. I ended up pulling up my destination on google maps and directed him there myself.
Some people properly insulate their house, ... and also drive a Prius.
That driving a Prius is pretty effortless isn't a bad thing, though some people seem to take a dislike to people who Do Something like driving a Prius, I'm not sure why.
Usually because you find them trying to hyper mile in the left hand lane of the interstate/highway going about 30 under the speed limit while they watch their MPG or L/100km gauge instead of the road.
Where do you live that taxis are a viable alternative?
I saw someone at work wait 2 hours for a cab, uber had three drivers in 10 minute range (if I knew her I would have offered to call one).
My house has a thirty minute wait for cab, uber 5.
I've been areas where can companies have refused to route a ten minute drive, uber, shows up in ten, no complaints.
In the larger cities uber may be competing on price, but in much of the country, it's convenience and reliability.
When I was in New Orleans, $8 cab ride from bourbon st, I frequently paid uber surge of $15 to get into town (could flag a cab the other way, but took 30-60 minutes to call from where I was sleeping). In the college town I grew up (Newark, DE) cabs were useless, in Wilmington, DE where I love now, they're bad.
I fully expect uber to start creeping up prices in areas and make a killing, out side of downtown in million person plus cities, cabs aren't an option.
I have never lived anywhere that has had a 2 hour wait for a taxi. I live on an island right now with a very low population density and could get a taxi to my door in 10 minutes if I called the dispatcher. And that's with them coming from the city next door. There's a bridge to the island, obviously, not a ferry. I have lived in California and Florida and have been all over the US and have actually seen instances in California where it is faster to get a taxi than to get an uber. That's rare, but it can happen if you're in an area near a popular taxi stand. And I've never lived downtown anywhere, ever.
Strippers, hookers, and blow. Drugs and sex are the fastest way to burn money from what I have seen.
Don't have children, do you...
Like I said... Sex is one of the fastest ways to blow money.
If you use the Facebook app, it has a feature to turn off the autoplaying videos as you are expected to be on mobile data networks, and they don't want you to incur a huge bill as it would reflect negatively on them.
I wish they would understand that NO ONE likes autoplaying videos, but many companies don't seem to get that (CNN is horrible about it, to the point of working around autoplay blockers).
Why would you make "Autoplay Videos on Cellular Networks" the default setting? And then their own CTO or some other exec was just saying a month or two ago that they expect all the content on there to be video in the next 5 years. No thanks. But I agree, CNN is especially bad. If I wanted to see the news instead of reading it, I would turn on CNN instead of go to their website.
Uber has actually made money in certain financial quarters. Webvan and Pets.com didn't. Uber rates can go up and people will still use them: what is the alternative?
Back in my day, we called them taxis.
Okay, but what exactly is Uber spending $1.2B on?
Strippers, hookers, and blow. Drugs and sex are the fastest way to burn money from what I have seen.
Why is this even on Slashdot? It sounds like it belongs on the Missed Connections page of Craigslist or something like that?
Stop telling me what I want to see and hear.
Stop loading tens of megabytes without my direct consent.
Stop taking control away from me and making me have to jump through hoops to get it back.
If I want to watch a video I will goddamned well click on the PLAY button. If I do not click on the PLAY button chances are the video was not interesting to me in the first place.
I used to use Facebook when I was waiting in doctors offices and other boring places to catch up on family while I had time to kill. I don't anymore because it has just become a non-stop stream of autoplaying video. That's exactly how I want to kill my phone battery, Facebook! How did you know? It's so stupid.
What's the point of being able to talk to it if they can't turn it on and actually do stuff with it?
Hmmm. Are you talking about the satellite at this point, or the inability for Slashdotters to seal the deal with women?
If you have something to say that can be said in 140 characters, you have nothing to say.
It's an intelligence test. People who have Twitter accounts have failed.
Oh you barely passed! Your post has 134 characters with no spaces. Sorry, I couldn't resist that one!
I don't even have a twitter account and you know they aren't going to believe that. I was listening to the radio this morning and they were talking about roommates and pretty much everyone on the radioshow said they wouldn't trust anyone who they couldn't find on Twitter because not having an account is somehow suspicious to them. What the hell is this world coming to?
Why can't rightscorp go after Tier 1 ISPs for all the evil bytes transmitted over their networks?
Oh god no! Yesterday someone taught me that there are evil bits. Now you're telling me that there are WHOLE BYTES that are evil? My god, where is the pope? We need to have us a good old fashioned internet exorcism!
have never seen a long SSH delay
That's good. I've never had a problem with Windows 10. That doesn't change the fact that it's out there and that there's message boards full of issues. Some of them are very well documented, e.g. the default behaviour of many Ubuntu versions was to reverse lookup DNS on connection regardless if it had the capability to do so. Interestingly enough the first google search was related to 12.04 LTS and avahi, a version which I personally had no issues with.
Point is that there's millions of systems out there very few alike, but as the parent says systemd is the source of every problem because he's never had an issue before.
I wasn't trying to refute your claim that there was a problem. That's why I was asking if you had seen that delay with other distros because I was curious if there was some common bug in sshd or if there was some problem that appeared to be Ubuntu specific.
No, I don't think you get it at all. It is sharing if you were making the trip anyway.
My brother and I shared my parents' cars all the time while we went to different destinations, or even when only one of us needed a ride but couldn't without help (not 16 yet). Sharing the exact same trip is not the only way to share a vehicle.
Ok, did you and your brother exchange payment for these services rendered? Or did you have some regulatory body (your parents) require that you meet certain conditions in order to participate in this "ride sharing" service that you discuss? Besides, what you are describing has nothing to do whatsoever with business.
I agree there is very little fundamentally different between ride sharing companies and taxis.
I didn't specifically call them a taxi, I called them a livery service. There are different rules and regulations for both but Uber is typically not compliant with the rules and regulations for either.
Ride sharing is simply a way of providing a better (cheaper) service by finding drivers who don't need to make a living doing it, and bypassing onerous regulations, so they can offer far lower rates.
Great so we are in agreement that they bypass the rules and that's how they provide a cheaper service. But as I already mentioned, they were late to the game in using an app to dispatch services. But are you really suggesting that Uber drivers do so because they "don't need to make a living" and are doing this out of the kindness of their hearts? Wow. Maybe these Uber drivers should start deducting their rides from their taxes. Why does Uber take such a large cut if the whole point of this service is altruism? Oh that's right, Uber is a business and the drivers do it for money so no that argument doesn't work either. Sorry.
Overall it creates a drastically better experience for anyone not currently employed by taxi companies, as evidenced by every single person I have eve talked to about their Uber vs taxi experiences.
That's probably debatable on where you solicit a ride from an Uber driver just like it varies based on where you solicit a taxi.
And if anecdotal evidence isn't good enough, as evidenced by their increasing market share.
No I believe that their increase in marketshare is due to people's desire to save a dollar or two wherever they can. Walmart is one of the worst places to shop in the world, yet millions of people do it to save $20 a week on groceries. Not because Walmart provided a better service than say Target. For the needs of that specific demographic, they value the $20 more than they value the aggravation that going to Walmart entails. If Uber does anything beneficial to society, I think the marginally lower prices sometimes result in people getting an Uber instead of driving drunk but I think a recent study has debunked that theory, as well.