There is one thing we do know: ultimately this was a management failure, not a tech/operations failure. A cascade failure from a single point is bad, but it inevitably follows from bad management. Read about the decision making before Fukushima or the Challenger disaster for examples. Someone always speaks at some point before it all goes up in flames, and they are ignored.
We also know one other thing: no one up in management will accept responsibility. All upper managers will be shielded from personal responsibility so their reputations and wealth will be preserved. Even if they retire early, they will never see their retirement be reduced because they screwed up. It will always be the case that they will be able to go out and get new positions, often as overpaid consulting parasites.
Everyone else, employees, customers, stockholders will loose out, but the insiders will barely feel a bump.
"The resulting data will improve forecasts of major space weather events that impact life on Earth,"
As soon as the press conference occurs one of Trump's toadies will scurry back to the White House (imagine a cockroach) and tattle tail that NASA has defied the President and has a mission to study the weather. Trump will fly into a rage and change NASA's budget priorities. NASA will be charged to prove the world i flat and was formed by God 6000 years ago.
"the issue was undisclosed due to confidentiality agreements"
This is the smoking gun, people. The fact that the situation is constrained by secret agreements between players shows that no free market existed.
The "free market" is a myth, and it has always been a myth. Without some independent mechanism to enforce honest behavior any market will become a criminal extortion enterprise. That is why there are laws against raising prices in emergencies. Otherwise bottled water and cans of food would go up by double digit amounts in case of a hurricane, tornado or earthquake, and people might even die as a result.
Of course these days it doesn't take a catastrophe for greedy corporations to charge obscene prices. Epi-Pen, Valeant Pharmaceuticals, and Turing Pharmaceuticals have all engaged in extortion pricing after acquiring existing drugs. This is life threatening and gouges the taxpayer as well.
The history of food and drug regulation in the US is the history of mass poisoning as a result of ignorance, greed and lack of regulation. All the comments about the "ebil gobment" blocking noble free enterprise are right wing masturbatory fantasies.
The biggest issue we face is regulatory capture where special interests take over the government agencies that are supposed to keep them in check. Examples are the revolving door between the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry or the end of Net Neutrality at the hands of the telecommunication cartel.
It's not about the government squashing the free market, it's about corrupt powerful monopolies using the government to enforce their dictatorial control over the economy.
It is painfully obvious that the charges in Sweden against Assange were only brought because someone in the Swedish government wanted to curry favor with the US. This type of sex charge is almost never used in Sweden; it is extremely rare.
So after Trump is elected, Sweden hates Trump and drops the charges. They don't want to do anything to help Trump. Their behavior is unrelated to the nominal charges, it's all about their political position.
They have chosen this path to save face and to keep their options open. It still might be useful for Sweden to do something on the behalf of the US, so they are still keeping Asange as a possible target.
So much time has passed since Assange was originally charged that the situation has completely changed. Wikileaks is now allied with Russia and wants payback against the US. They are no longer a neutral 3rd party trying to uncover the truth. They have a pro-Russian agenda.
Given that Putin wants to destabilize Western democracies it is hard to see Assange as a victim. He has chosen the dark side and even though it is easy to see why, he has lost all moral authority.
Crimes like paying taxes (Social Security, unemployment) and not getting any benefits from those tax dollars.
You are obviously in the Representative Steve King (R Iowa) wing of the Republican Party: "For every one who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds—and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert."
Trump already leaked this to the Russians, and the Chinese stole it by themselves. The only ones left out of the loop are US allies, and that is because IBM wants to sell them the system instead of having them build their own.
The EPA is directly involved with the Hanford cleanup operation. The work is being done under the direct management of the DOE, but their results are reviewed by the EPA.
CERCLA 121(c) requires five-year reviews on remedial actions when hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants will remain on site above levels that allow for “unlimited use and unrestricted exposure”. A general overview of the review process can be found in this presentation. The first Five-Year Review was completed in 2001 by EPA staff. The Department of Energy (DOE) chose to conduct the second Five-Year Review which had draft 0 completed in 2006. When DOE performs the review, as in 2006, EPA is still required to review the report and provide comments/concurrence in a letter of review.
Given how poorly the Hanford cleanup has gone under the leadership of the DOE, more involvment by the EPA might lead to a better result. If you carefully read the preceding paragraph, you will note that the DOE took over the review process from the EPA after the first report. Having a department review it'sown work is not exactly the best way to insure that they are doing a good job. After this latest failure, it is obvious that the DOE is not doing a very good job.
There is a cosmic irony in the juxtaposition of this problem at Hanford and the shutdown of scientific advisory panels at the EPA and the Department of the Interior. Inevitably some of these efforts involve the Hanford site. It is a stark reminder that ignoring science is always a bad idea.
By the way, why are you picking on the EPA in the first place? I detect the stench of a right wing troll.
If human beings, or our earlier ancestors, were killing mastodons 130,000 year ago without eating the meat, then it seems awfully likely that human/hominid hunting was an important factor in the eventual extinction of mastodons and other North American megafauna. Killing a big mammal like that for the bones/marrow implies a very effective predation capability and possible big environmental impact.
This is the de facto business model in the US: steal from somebody. To prove my point all I have to do is say "Wells Fargo".
The three types of suckers are investors, clients and workers. The most profitable form is to steal from all three and keep the fraud rolling along indefinitely. That is the fundamental model for the financial industry. All the top banks, investment houses, hedge funds, etc skim the wealth generated in the country and put it in their own pockets. That's, along with regressive taxes, underlies the ever increasing wealth disparity between rich and poor.
So what do you think will happen to the scam artists who pulled this off? Will they suffer any economic or reputational damage? No way. They all got out fat and happy, and their business reputation will be enhanced because of their successful raid on a gullible public. I expect they will get better positions with larger companies because of their proven track record of theft.
I expect no change, although it might get worse. I just wish they would stop calling it capitalism.
I had one as well. Why you would be modded down for this is incomprehensible.
I was already using mainframes and minicomputers when I bought it, so it didn't keep my attention very long. It took a long time for home machines to reach a point where I felt it was worth he effort to use them.
In the case of Uber, their business practices are reprehensible and in many instances flat out illegal. It's just that they have managed to avoid disaster so far, but that is about to change.
Uber users are in the same situation as consumers who buy products that are made by child labor. All the see is the price, and there is a disconnect from how that price point is achieved. Not only is Uber breaking laws, they are also charging unsustainable prices to buy market share. Their house of cards can't last much longer.
Assuming you will reach any achievable goal in a startup is delusional. That includes getting anything out the door, making any money, having a life outside of work, or having anything to show for your time except war stories.
You can have a lot of fun if you realize that you are doing it for the experience, and you understand it will eat your life. If you don't understand how much of a gamble you are taking you are in for a rude awakening.
As an alternative, consider going to Alaska and panning for gold. You will get a lot more exercise and get to be outside a lot more. And you chance of success is roughly the same. And you'll also have cool stories to tell afterwards.
And lead software types got an average of twenty four minutes and fifty six seconds more sleep per week, while coders had an extra eight minutes plus every day for lunch and coffee time.
The next report will include figures for weight loss and blood pressure improvements.
I know someone who ran out of other options and started working in an Amazon fulfillment center. It was brutal.
The location was in San Bernadino California. The climate sucked. They had to work long hours with uncertain shifts, so planning life was impossible. The pay was so low that if you didn't live in the area you could not afford a motel. Renting a room was not an option because the work was irregular. People ended up trying to sleep in their cars, but the cops would drive around and roust anyone sleeping in a car. Car thievery was common when people were at work.
Shift hours were strict, and checking in and out took a lot of time that was not paid for. A shift could have an extra two or three hours added time because of this. If you didn't show up early enough you wouldn't get clocked in on time and you could get fired. If you fell ill on the job or hurt yourself with the physical labor you had to cover it up or get fired.
This was in the US within the last 18 months or so. Obama was in office. Guess how it will become once Trump gets his plan in place?
Amazon adding 15,000 part time crap jobs means nothing. Amazon already directly employs over 340,000 people (world wide). They could hire this many people as a PR move and it would make no difference.
If Hillary were president Amazon would be layout off 30k workers
By the way, nice sentence structure there.
I'm curious. Since you have this phenomenal ability to know the outcome of events that did not occur, why are you wasting your time posting on Slashdot? Since truth is stranger then fiction, you should be taking note of fantastic events in lots of other time lines and turning them into movies scripts, comics, fiction, etc. You could be rich and famous!
Heck, you should be writing for Fox News right now. Since they have been worldwide leaders in what is now termed "fake news", you could write news stories that didn't happen in this timeline and the Fox audience would love it.
Sadly, you might not be able to cut working at the White House these days. Trump and his toadies have clearly departed the time line that all the rest of us are stuck in, so they are even further along then you are. You just can't compete.
Don't insult the orangutans that way. They are noble creatures, and you should not denigrate them with a comparison to the syphilitic(*) asshat who occupies the White House.
* Note: Trump admitted on Howard Stern's show that he was exposed to STDs in the 80s.
Wells Fargo is in a steep decline right now due to it's recent credit card scandal. They were caught pressuring clients to get too many credit cards and even opening fraudulent account without customer's consent. Besides big financial penalties their new credit card applications are down %55.
So take this with a grain of salt. It is part of a new advertising push to help shore up their image and recover from their self imposed failure. It's not about innovation as much as it is about trying to erase the past.
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We also know one other thing: no one up in management will accept responsibility. All upper managers will be shielded from personal responsibility so their reputations and wealth will be preserved. Even if they retire early, they will never see their retirement be reduced because they screwed up. It will always be the case that they will be able to go out and get new positions, often as overpaid consulting parasites.
Everyone else, employees, customers, stockholders will loose out, but the insiders will barely feel a bump.
That's a big deal.
As soon as the press conference occurs one of Trump's toadies will scurry back to the White House (imagine a cockroach) and tattle tail that NASA has defied the President and has a mission to study the weather. Trump will fly into a rage and change NASA's budget priorities. NASA will be charged to prove the world i flat and was formed by God 6000 years ago.
1. Prove the Earth is Flat.
2. ???
3. Profit!!
Glad that I cleared that up for you.
This is the smoking gun, people. The fact that the situation is constrained by secret agreements between players shows that no free market existed.
The "free market" is a myth, and it has always been a myth. Without some independent mechanism to enforce honest behavior any market will become a criminal extortion enterprise. That is why there are laws against raising prices in emergencies. Otherwise bottled water and cans of food would go up by double digit amounts in case of a hurricane, tornado or earthquake, and people might even die as a result.
Of course these days it doesn't take a catastrophe for greedy corporations to charge obscene prices. Epi-Pen, Valeant Pharmaceuticals, and Turing Pharmaceuticals have all engaged in extortion pricing after acquiring existing drugs. This is life threatening and gouges the taxpayer as well.
The history of food and drug regulation in the US is the history of mass poisoning as a result of ignorance, greed and lack of regulation. All the comments about the "ebil gobment" blocking noble free enterprise are right wing masturbatory fantasies.
The biggest issue we face is regulatory capture where special interests take over the government agencies that are supposed to keep them in check. Examples are the revolving door between the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry or the end of Net Neutrality at the hands of the telecommunication cartel.
It's not about the government squashing the free market, it's about corrupt powerful monopolies using the government to enforce their dictatorial control over the economy.
So after Trump is elected, Sweden hates Trump and drops the charges. They don't want to do anything to help Trump. Their behavior is unrelated to the nominal charges, it's all about their political position.
They have chosen this path to save face and to keep their options open. It still might be useful for Sweden to do something on the behalf of the US, so they are still keeping Asange as a possible target.
So much time has passed since Assange was originally charged that the situation has completely changed. Wikileaks is now allied with Russia and wants payback against the US. They are no longer a neutral 3rd party trying to uncover the truth. They have a pro-Russian agenda.
Given that Putin wants to destabilize Western democracies it is hard to see Assange as a victim. He has chosen the dark side and even though it is easy to see why, he has lost all moral authority.
You are obviously in the Representative Steve King (R Iowa) wing of the Republican Party: "For every one who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds—and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert."
Trump already leaked this to the Russians, and the Chinese stole it by themselves. The only ones left out of the loop are US allies, and that is because IBM wants to sell them the system instead of having them build their own.
Given how poorly the Hanford cleanup has gone under the leadership of the DOE, more involvment by the EPA might lead to a better result. If you carefully read the preceding paragraph, you will note that the DOE took over the review process from the EPA after the first report. Having a department review it'sown work is not exactly the best way to insure that they are doing a good job. After this latest failure, it is obvious that the DOE is not doing a very good job.
There is a cosmic irony in the juxtaposition of this problem at Hanford and the shutdown of scientific advisory panels at the EPA and the Department of the Interior. Inevitably some of these efforts involve the Hanford site. It is a stark reminder that ignoring science is always a bad idea.
By the way, why are you picking on the EPA in the first place? I detect the stench of a right wing troll.
If human beings, or our earlier ancestors, were killing mastodons 130,000 year ago without eating the meat, then it seems awfully likely that human/hominid hunting was an important factor in the eventual extinction of mastodons and other North American megafauna. Killing a big mammal like that for the bones/marrow implies a very effective predation capability and possible big environmental impact.
The three types of suckers are investors, clients and workers. The most profitable form is to steal from all three and keep the fraud rolling along indefinitely. That is the fundamental model for the financial industry. All the top banks, investment houses, hedge funds, etc skim the wealth generated in the country and put it in their own pockets. That's, along with regressive taxes, underlies the ever increasing wealth disparity between rich and poor.
So what do you think will happen to the scam artists who pulled this off? Will they suffer any economic or reputational damage? No way. They all got out fat and happy, and their business reputation will be enhanced because of their successful raid on a gullible public. I expect they will get better positions with larger companies because of their proven track record of theft.
I expect no change, although it might get worse. I just wish they would stop calling it capitalism.
The sticker shock of buying a VR setup is so great that no one will respond to the "tiny" shocks that indicate wall contact.
I was already using mainframes and minicomputers when I bought it, so it didn't keep my attention very long. It took a long time for home machines to reach a point where I felt it was worth he effort to use them.
In the case of Uber, their business practices are reprehensible and in many instances flat out illegal. It's just that they have managed to avoid disaster so far, but that is about to change.
Uber users are in the same situation as consumers who buy products that are made by child labor. All the see is the price, and there is a disconnect from how that price point is achieved. Not only is Uber breaking laws, they are also charging unsustainable prices to buy market share. Their house of cards can't last much longer.
1. Move to Silicon Valley in the early 1980's.
2. Buy real estate.
3. Profit!
Assuming you will reach any achievable goal in a startup is delusional. That includes getting anything out the door, making any money, having a life outside of work, or having anything to show for your time except war stories.
You can have a lot of fun if you realize that you are doing it for the experience, and you understand it will eat your life. If you don't understand how much of a gamble you are taking you are in for a rude awakening.
As an alternative, consider going to Alaska and panning for gold. You will get a lot more exercise and get to be outside a lot more. And you chance of success is roughly the same. And you'll also have cool stories to tell afterwards.
The next report will include figures for weight loss and blood pressure improvements.
The location was in San Bernadino California. The climate sucked. They had to work long hours with uncertain shifts, so planning life was impossible. The pay was so low that if you didn't live in the area you could not afford a motel. Renting a room was not an option because the work was irregular. People ended up trying to sleep in their cars, but the cops would drive around and roust anyone sleeping in a car. Car thievery was common when people were at work.
Shift hours were strict, and checking in and out took a lot of time that was not paid for. A shift could have an extra two or three hours added time because of this. If you didn't show up early enough you wouldn't get clocked in on time and you could get fired. If you fell ill on the job or hurt yourself with the physical labor you had to cover it up or get fired.
This was in the US within the last 18 months or so. Obama was in office. Guess how it will become once Trump gets his plan in place?
Amazon adding 15,000 part time crap jobs means nothing. Amazon already directly employs over 340,000 people (world wide). They could hire this many people as a PR move and it would make no difference.
By the way, nice sentence structure there.
I'm curious. Since you have this phenomenal ability to know the outcome of events that did not occur, why are you wasting your time posting on Slashdot? Since truth is stranger then fiction, you should be taking note of fantastic events in lots of other time lines and turning them into movies scripts, comics, fiction, etc. You could be rich and famous!
Heck, you should be writing for Fox News right now. Since they have been worldwide leaders in what is now termed "fake news", you could write news stories that didn't happen in this timeline and the Fox audience would love it.
Sadly, you might not be able to cut working at the White House these days. Trump and his toadies have clearly departed the time line that all the rest of us are stuck in, so they are even further along then you are. You just can't compete.
Misogyny.
plastic!
* Note: Trump admitted on Howard Stern's show that he was exposed to STDs in the 80s.
also described as: "I can keep working as a software developer as long as I want to".
So take this with a grain of salt. It is part of a new advertising push to help shore up their image and recover from their self imposed failure. It's not about innovation as much as it is about trying to erase the past.
Nothing to see here, move along.
We can just hide behind Trump's Wall and extort money from the rest of the world by using all the weapons we're going to buy.