It would not be enough to force the porn peddlers into using an.xxx domain name - you would have to force them off their current.com domains. You skipped that part.
A domain takeover for hosting legal, non-infringing, content would be a big deal. That would be new territory. Currently, there are domains that are available only to certain organizations (.mil,.edu, etc.), but that is not a content decision.
While it's hard to get great quotes from a monkey. A monkey could have done that mission. In fact, a monkey *did* do that mission. And the monkey did it first. And the monkey did it better - (didn't almost reset the clock at the wrong time).
I worked this this guy. I called him the "short-order-cook". And his code quality was about the same quality as greasy diner food.
It was interesting because the short-order-cook's code ran on the infrastructure created by the "gourmet chef" programmer. The gourmet-chef's code was a bounty of the most beautiful and elegant code one could ever hope to see. It took the chef about five times as long as most other coders to produce his masterpiece.
The gourmet-chef and the short-order-cook hated each other. They clashed of egos. While both of them were consider "smart" guys, I would have gladly rather worked with less "smart" coders who were team players.
No, it's not insider trading. It's called "front running"...
"The unethical practice of a trading ahead of your client based on knowing how your client is going to trade"
In plainer English - it means that the trader (high frequency in this case) is using their position (X-Ray specs) to see some orders ahead of everyone else. The trader then puts in their own order ahead of all the others. Since the trader's order was first, and the market moved in that direction - guaranteed profit. Then they dump what they bought immediately and look for the next order that they can front run.
Compuserve, Source, Prodigy, AOL - where are they?
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Think of the past information walls that tried to charge for content:
Compuserve, Source, Prodigy, AOL, etc. Where are they now?
Why did they fail, but future walled providers will succeed?
I think that the advertisement supported content world is not dead and will not die for a very long time.
I would add that the advice for a "crap boss" should also be followed if the problem is your boss's boss. That great advice (keep your mouth shut, keep your head down, do what you're told) needs to flow downhill.
If your boss is acting irrationally, you need to understand why. It could be that your boss is following the "crap boss" protocol himself - doing what he's told, etc. You need to get in line with that.
Do not EVER give your boss grief for having to follow the orders of HIS shitty boss.
/ male pronouns used out of laziness, applies to female bosses too.
Yes, the US government loves people hoarding $100 notes overseas. But the US government doesn't love criminals who hoard $100 notes. The way that the US ensures those $100 notes held by the criminals are never honored (and the loan repaid) is to issue new $100 notes.
The criminals have an extra hard time trying to change the old $100 notes for the new $100 notes. Even honest oversea $100 note hoarders will be burdened with changing to new notes, but they don't have to worry about exposure.
Most US $100 notes are circulated outside of the US. I don't know the percentage, but it's very high. Aside from legal users, there is a lot of people with large caches of $100 notes that our government doesn't like.
In non-US countries the the phrase "legal tender for all debts public and private" carries no weight. They can be picky about what notes they accept. Every time that new US notes are issued, people with large hoards of US cash find that their old notes are no longer accepted and they have to scramble to get new notes. They get noticed.
Correct, I meant using WiFi with my own laptop (a MacBook).
I can use a secure OS. I can use a secure browser (Firefox). But if I can't use a secure LAN, I need transport layer security (SSL). For that, I'm at the mercy of the web site, or e-mail provider, that I'm connected to.
I wish that the end user, not the service provider, had control over transport layer security. Let me make the choice of security over performance.
Anyone care to guess if Yahoo! will so the same thing?
I really hope so. I use a Yahoo account and I know how easy it is to sniff Ethernet. I hate to read mail at cafes and other places where I'm not certain of the LAN security.
I used to work at a place that was nuts about bug counts. Nevermind the severity.
This decimal comma bug would be *one* bug. A typo on an informational page would count as one bug too.
The developers were always questioned "How many bugs did you fix on this release?" And QA would have to answer "How many bugs did you verify on this release?". Guess which bugs would get fixed and verified for the current release and which bugs would get deferred to later releases.
Nearly everything that ATC says is safety related. There is no chit-chat. ATC gives heading and altitude assignments. You need to go where they tell you to go because you are not the only plane in the sky.
Also, ATC will vector you around severe weather. One reason why these pilots were not paying attention is likely because there was no severe weather near their flight path. They would not be expecting any vectors for weather. They would only be expecting vectors for the descent and approach.
It's never a good idea to tune out ATC, either electronically or mentally, a pilot needs to be aware of what's going on in the area. If there is traffic above, below or crossing it's a really good idea to get visual contact.
There are many possible safety consequences of ignoring ATC. When ATC doesn't know what you're doing, they can't ensure separation. They get pretty upset about that since separating traffic is what they do all day. ATC has procedures for getting everyone out of the way of a plane that is not responding. Those procedures are very disruptive to the normal flow of air traffic.
Before 9/11, an equipment failure or a brain fart was more forgivable. Now the response for ignoring ATC is pretty strong. Ignoring ATC, at any time, is a career limiting action.
There will always be a number of people who will abuse it unless there is a penalty and a good chance of getting caught. The same with any rule, law, or system. There are many rules, laws, and systems that don't even define penalties for abuse. And the chances of getting caught abusing some of them are minuscule.
Yes, you have a constitutional right to know how well the human works, if the human used one of it's senses to provide evidence against you.
Any good lawyer would challenge the testimony of a blinder-than-a-bat-old-lady giving an eye witness statement for something that happened in a low light situation.
The best IT manager is a servant leader, not coder
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A good IT manager is not a manager at all, or a programmer, they are a servant leader.
Servant-leadership emphasizes the leader's role as steward of the resources (human, financial and otherwise) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_leadership/ .
The worst IT managers are the ones who try to manage. IT is a function that tends to best be performed by self-managed people. The only things the tech team needs are good requirements and intrinsic motivation. A servant leader gives those things to his team.
Most code's are NOT a joke. They are a means for business. Codes are a huge racket.
Yes, many codes are in conflict, obtuse, and profanely nonsensical. That is why homeowners, developers, and contractors pay a lot of money to those who enforce the codes.
There is a lot of money made in zoning, permitting, and inspection. Some of the money is passed via fees, licenses, and permits. Some of the money is passed under the table. There are plenty of ways to pass money indirectly in order to be less traceable.
If the codes were truly about safety, there would be more certainly and less money flowing because of uncertainly. It's the same as the idea about writing laws so that everyone is a criminal.
If IT becomes a certified profession, it will be because there is money to be made for those who control the certification process.
old mainframe joke.
The bottom edge of a Hollerith card is the nine edge. That was the edge that got sucked into the card reader first. The cards were placed face down on the card reader holding plate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_card/
There are (at least) two definitions for "Project Manager". One definition is what we would like the term to mean. The other definition is how most others use the term. The term "Project Manager" has has been corrupted, like "Engineer" and "Hacker".
In the non-slashdot world....
1. An engineer could be a person to cleans toilets (building engineer or sanitation engineer). 2. A hacker is a person who engages in fraud and who uses a computer. 3. A project manager is an administrative assistant who distributes schedules, meeting minutes, and status reports.
I've only worked in one company that did not use definition #3. All other corporations where I've worked have used definition #3. There was even one company that asked that a new hire have a PMP. But the actual work they did was definition #3. They only managed paper, not people or money.
What I saw was: -very little disposable items. Especially paper products. -far fewer common drugs in the Cuban hospital supply room than I would see in a US small town drug store.
I didn't see the sharps reuse, but it would not surprise me.
"There is no reason any import market has to be a black market..."
Utter BS. Even trying to bring in used computer equipment into Cuba results a massive import duty. They inflate the market value of imported used products sky-high. My experience was that I could black market import raw looking electronics without detection by claiming stuff as part of my personal computer. So long as I left with my personal computer (even if it was missing a few "accessories"). There was no way to import a computer case (empty or partially full) or a CRT monitor without paying a big duty.
The only way to bring something into Cuba and leave it in the country without paying an import duty is to report is stolen. I did that *one* time.
"ask yourself why companies are willing to pay so much for that connection..."
You disproved your own point - companies are *not* willing to pay for that connection. Immigration processing expenses are a heck of a lot cheaper. So that's what companies choose.
The reason that the grandparent is right on target has to do with two business trends:
- trend towards disposable tech workers - trend away from paying any relocation expenses to new or current employees
The first trend should be within most everyone's experience. The tenure of tech workers used to be measured in years. Now it's measured in months. H1-B workers better fit this trend.
The second trend needs no explanation. Relocation used to be common for engineering/tech jobs. Now, it's rare. Again, H1-B workers better fit this trend.
I'm old enough to remember - -The "newer" workers at my first job had been there 10 years. The old timers had been there 25 years+. And there was no 401K. People who stayed got a pension. And the pension plans were generous and safe.
-National and multi-national companies relocated people for almost 50% of all open positions.
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It would not be enough to force the porn peddlers into using an .xxx domain name - you would have to force them off their current .com domains. You skipped that part.
A domain takeover for hosting legal, non-infringing, content would be a big deal. That would be new territory. Currently, there are domains that are available only to certain organizations (.mil, .edu, etc.), but that is not a content decision.
While it's hard to get great quotes from a monkey. A monkey could have done that mission. In fact, a monkey *did* do that mission. And the monkey did it first. And the monkey did it better - (didn't almost reset the clock at the wrong time).
I worked this this guy. I called him the "short-order-cook". And his code quality was about the same quality as greasy diner food.
It was interesting because the short-order-cook's code ran on the infrastructure created by the "gourmet chef" programmer. The gourmet-chef's code was a bounty of the most beautiful and elegant code one could ever hope to see. It took the chef about five times as long as most other coders to produce his masterpiece.
The gourmet-chef and the short-order-cook hated each other. They clashed of egos. While both of them were consider "smart" guys, I would have gladly rather worked with less "smart" coders who were team players.
No, it's not insider trading. It's called "front running"...
"The unethical practice of a trading ahead of your client based on knowing how your client is going to trade"
In plainer English - it means that the trader (high frequency in this case) is using their position (X-Ray specs) to see some orders ahead of everyone else. The trader then puts in their own order ahead of all the others. Since the trader's order was first, and the market moved in that direction - guaranteed profit. Then they dump what they bought immediately and look for the next order that they can front run.
Think of the past information walls that tried to charge for content:
Compuserve, Source, Prodigy, AOL, etc. Where are they now?
Why did they fail, but future walled providers will succeed?
I think that the advertisement supported content world is not dead and will not die for a very long time.
There seems to be a high level of concern being stirred up here over collecting blood from unwilling donors.
Would people have the same level of concern if the collection method were a cheek swab?
I would add that the advice for a "crap boss" should also be followed if the problem is your boss's boss. That great advice (keep your mouth shut, keep your head down, do what you're told) needs to flow downhill.
If your boss is acting irrationally, you need to understand why. It could be that your boss is following the "crap boss" protocol himself - doing what he's told, etc. You need to get in line with that.
Do not EVER give your boss grief for having to follow the orders of HIS shitty boss.
/ male pronouns used out of laziness, applies to female bosses too.
Yes, the US government loves people hoarding $100 notes overseas. But the US government doesn't love criminals who hoard $100 notes. The way that the US ensures those $100 notes held by the criminals are never honored (and the loan repaid) is to issue new $100 notes.
The criminals have an extra hard time trying to change the old $100 notes for the new $100 notes. Even honest oversea $100 note hoarders will be burdened with changing to new notes, but they don't have to worry about exposure.
Most US $100 notes are circulated outside of the US. I don't know the percentage, but it's very high. Aside from legal users, there is a lot of people with large caches of $100 notes that our government doesn't like.
In non-US countries the the phrase "legal tender for all debts public and private" carries no weight. They can be picky about what notes they accept. Every time that new US notes are issued, people with large hoards of US cash find that their old notes are no longer accepted and they have to scramble to get new notes. They get noticed.
Correct, I meant using WiFi with my own laptop (a MacBook).
I can use a secure OS. I can use a secure browser (Firefox). But if I can't use a secure LAN, I need transport layer security (SSL). For that, I'm at the mercy of the web site, or e-mail provider, that I'm connected to.
I wish that the end user, not the service provider, had control over transport layer security. Let me make the choice of security over performance.
Only the Yahoo login page is https. After the login page, it's all http.
Anyone care to guess if Yahoo! will so the same thing?
I really hope so. I use a Yahoo account and I know how easy it is to sniff Ethernet. I hate to read mail at cafes and other places where I'm not certain of the LAN security.
I used to work at a place that was nuts about bug counts. Nevermind the severity.
This decimal comma bug would be *one* bug. A typo on an informational page would count as one bug too.
The developers were always questioned "How many bugs did you fix on this release?" And QA would have to answer "How many bugs did you verify on this release?". Guess which bugs would get fixed and verified for the current release and which bugs would get deferred to later releases.
Drove me crazy.
This generalization may not apply to all situations. Your mileage may vary. Batteries not included.
It would only be fair if the person that they murdered gets to pretend that it never happened too.
Nearly everything that ATC says is safety related. There is no chit-chat. ATC gives heading and altitude assignments. You need to go where they tell you to go because you are not the only plane in the sky.
Also, ATC will vector you around severe weather. One reason why these pilots were not paying attention is likely because there was no severe weather near their flight path. They would not be expecting any vectors for weather. They would only be expecting vectors for the descent and approach.
It's never a good idea to tune out ATC, either electronically or mentally, a pilot needs to be aware of what's going on in the area. If there is traffic above, below or crossing it's a really good idea to get visual contact.
There are many possible safety consequences of ignoring ATC. When ATC doesn't know what you're doing, they can't ensure separation. They get pretty upset about that since separating traffic is what they do all day. ATC has procedures for getting everyone out of the way of a plane that is not responding. Those procedures are very disruptive to the normal flow of air traffic.
Before 9/11, an equipment failure or a brain fart was more forgivable. Now the response for ignoring ATC is pretty strong. Ignoring ATC, at any time, is a career limiting action.
There will always be a number of people who will abuse it unless there is a penalty and a good chance of getting caught. The same with any rule, law, or system. There are many rules, laws, and systems that don't even define penalties for abuse. And the chances of getting caught abusing some of them are minuscule.
Yes, you have a constitutional right to know how well the human works, if the human used one of it's senses to provide evidence against you.
Any good lawyer would challenge the testimony of a blinder-than-a-bat-old-lady giving an eye witness statement for something that happened in a low light situation.
A good IT manager is not a manager at all, or a programmer, they are a servant leader. Servant-leadership emphasizes the leader's role as steward of the resources (human, financial and otherwise) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_leadership/ .
The worst IT managers are the ones who try to manage. IT is a function that tends to best be performed by self-managed people. The only things the tech team needs are good requirements and intrinsic motivation. A servant leader gives those things to his team.
Most code's are NOT a joke. They are a means for business. Codes are a huge racket.
Yes, many codes are in conflict, obtuse, and profanely nonsensical. That is why homeowners, developers, and contractors pay a lot of money to those who enforce the codes.
There is a lot of money made in zoning, permitting, and inspection. Some of the money is passed via fees, licenses, and permits. Some of the money is passed under the table. There are plenty of ways to pass money indirectly in order to be less traceable.
If the codes were truly about safety, there would be more certainly and less money flowing because of uncertainly. It's the same as the idea about writing laws so that everyone is a criminal.
If IT becomes a certified profession, it will be because there is money to be made for those who control the certification process.
Always follow the money...
old mainframe joke. The bottom edge of a Hollerith card is the nine edge. That was the edge that got sucked into the card reader first. The cards were placed face down on the card reader holding plate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_card/
There are (at least) two definitions for "Project Manager". One definition is what we would like the term to mean. The other definition is how most others use the term. The term "Project Manager" has has been corrupted, like "Engineer" and "Hacker".
In the non-slashdot world....
1. An engineer could be a person to cleans toilets (building engineer or sanitation engineer).
2. A hacker is a person who engages in fraud and who uses a computer.
3. A project manager is an administrative assistant who distributes schedules, meeting minutes, and status reports.
I've only worked in one company that did not use definition #3. All other corporations where I've worked have used definition #3. There was even one company that asked that a new hire have a PMP. But the actual work they did was definition #3. They only managed paper, not people or money.
I second your experience.
What I saw was:
-very little disposable items. Especially paper products.
-far fewer common drugs in the Cuban hospital supply room than I would see in a US small town drug store.
I didn't see the sharps reuse, but it would not surprise me.
"There is no reason any import market has to be a black market..."
Utter BS.
Even trying to bring in used computer equipment into Cuba results a massive import duty. They inflate the market value of imported used products sky-high. My experience was that I could black market import raw looking electronics without detection by claiming stuff as part of my personal computer. So long as I left with my personal computer (even if it was missing a few "accessories"). There was no way to import a computer case (empty or partially full) or a CRT monitor without paying a big duty.
The only way to bring something into Cuba and leave it in the country without paying an import duty is to report is stolen. I did that *one* time.
"ask yourself why companies are willing to pay so much for that connection..."
You disproved your own point - companies are *not* willing to pay for that connection. Immigration processing expenses are a heck of a lot cheaper. So that's what companies choose.
The reason that the grandparent is right on target has to do with two business trends:
- trend towards disposable tech workers
- trend away from paying any relocation expenses to new or current employees
The first trend should be within most everyone's experience. The tenure of tech workers used to be measured in years. Now it's measured in months. H1-B workers better fit this trend.
The second trend needs no explanation. Relocation used to be common for engineering/tech jobs. Now, it's rare. Again, H1-B workers better fit this trend.
I'm old enough to remember -
-The "newer" workers at my first job had been there 10 years. The old timers had been there 25 years+. And there was no 401K. People who stayed got a pension. And the pension plans were generous and safe.
-National and multi-national companies relocated people for almost 50% of all open positions.
That was my experince.