When you have millions of customers and no two have identical machines, it's damned hard to test for every case. It doesn't say if all XP machines are affected (which should have been tested for) or if just a large number of them have been (which may or may not have shown up in testing).
How can you lose a job you haven't been hired for yet? I was talking specifically about the hiring process, not existing employees - that's another case. And there are other jobs out there. I've yet to walk down the street in any commercial or industrial district without seeing a few Help Wanted or Now Hiring signs. So how is it any different than requiring an NDA or drug test to get a job?
It follows the bit torrent model. Providing it may not help you directly, but if everyone does it then when you want to access information that someone else uploaded, it's available. Credit checks are nothing new for HR considering candidates for hire.
I don't think healthcare provider is included in PHI, but HIPAA is so broad they could shoehorn it in if they wanted to. Same with whether you have insurance.
What I pay for dental insurance comes out to a little over $200/yr and it covers almost everything including regular check-ups. Over the last few years, it has been pretty break-even between regular checkups and a two chipped teeth. Over decades, I'll probably spend more on insurance than if I paid in cash but it's nice to have a regular, predictable pre-tax expense and have one less emergency expense to worry about.
Having worked with my company's HR dept recently to fix a glitch with printing out payroll info, they are extremely paranoid about preventing other employees from seeing anyone's salary. However, the paranoia seems to be limited to preventing employees from seeing what each other makes rather than preventing any third party from accessing it.
Not relevant. Signing it is a voluntary condition of employment, same as an NDA or similar. Unless the hiring manager holds a knife to you and tells you to take the job, it's not duress.
The same way I skip over all the pages I don't use now. I refer to the table of contents. Sure, I might still end up with some useless pages, but the signal to crap ratio will be much more favorable.
Seems to me there's a difference between "evade radar" and "doesn't show up on radar". I think of evading as active - in this case, flying in such a way as to avoid the actual radio waves whereas "doesn't show up on radar" is more about minimizing cross section, radar-absorbing paint, etc - passive methods.
Oh, you can get a lot more extreme than this. How about by the letter? The book just scrolls across your screen word by word, letter by letter with a little meter racking up until you hit STOP. The best publishers will give you the punctuation for free.
I also see this being popular with students. Buy a chapter as it comes up in class... less upfront cost and I've never had a course that used every chapter of a textbook - even the one time a professor special-ordered an abridged version of his text of choice with only certain chapters.
I would be all over this. I have tons of reference ebooks that I only use a few chapters out of. If it's $40 for a 600 page book, I would gladly pay $10 for the 100 pages I would actually use even though the unit price (per page) would be higher. As it stands now, there are a lot of books I shy away from buying because a good chunk of it is irrelevant to me and the total purchase price is above my budget.
It's neither hidden, nor a cap. They sent out tons of warnings that they were implementing it a few months ago and you just get throttled after 5GB - there's no shutoff and no extra fees so it's not really a cap.
There is a soft cap at 5GB. There's no extra charge for going over it, you just don't have the same speed. The one time I exceeded it, I still didn't notice - even throttled back, it was still enough to do what I need it to do. If I really needed a high-speed high-cap plan, then I would pay the extra money to be raped by ATT or Verizon... but I don't so I won't as long as Virgin still gives me enough speed for email and basic web browsing even after I pass the cap.
This is only true for their basic voice service... there are Verizon and ATT towers on my work campus but my Virgin Optimus Slider phone gets no signal even where Verizon gets full strength.
If coverage area is your only metric, then yes, Verizon is the bestestest ever. However, there are other metrics. My primary metric is cost, so I'm on Virgin Mobile in spite of the limited coverage. For some people, the extra coverage is worth the money, for me it is not.
Because then you'd need to launch all your missiles from within a relatively small area... and that would make them much easier to detect upon launch as well as much easier to stop. Missiles are not airplanes that can be launched from all over and then group up. They carry limited fuel and have relatively limited flight control so you want to take the shortest path possible to minimize detection and countermeasure time.
Depending on the type of nuke, it can be fairly difficult to accidentally set one off by shooting it down. More likely the conventional explosives in the nuke will go off in an uncontrolled manner and spray a relatively small amount of radioactive material on the ground.
I'm also not sure why you would have 50,000 nuclear explosions mid sky when there's only about 17,000 nukes still in existence, with fewer than a quarter of them active. Russia is estimated to have the most with about 8500 warheads of which fewer than 1800 are active.
It's also been shown that Israel's defense system would not scale well to large countries, such as the United States. It's a start, but still a long way from a solution.
Agreed, calculus was one of my favorite subjects in high school (the other being Latin), but I don't need anything remotely that advanced as a sysadmin. Basic seventh grade algebra gets me through the day-to-day. I know some people who do need high level math in their job and they're brilliant.
As a side note, your post is insulting to 9 year olds. I know many 7 year olds who can write better than the original poster.
I would much prefer fullname@xyz.tld over full.name@xyz.tld. It just looks cleaner and is less confusing when spelling it out to people. You expect emails to format to string@string.string. Throwing in any additional symbols, especially one that's already used elsewhere, throws people off even if there's no technical reason not to.
For simplicity, I'd say go with username@domain.com. That way there is standardization across email and other systems... which also confuses people less. Our email system (Novell GroupWise) is completely separate from Active Directory, but we force users to use the same username/password for both because it generates fewer helpdesk calls for people forgetting their password.
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When you have millions of customers and no two have identical machines, it's damned hard to test for every case. It doesn't say if all XP machines are affected (which should have been tested for) or if just a large number of them have been (which may or may not have shown up in testing).
How can you lose a job you haven't been hired for yet? I was talking specifically about the hiring process, not existing employees - that's another case. And there are other jobs out there. I've yet to walk down the street in any commercial or industrial district without seeing a few Help Wanted or Now Hiring signs. So how is it any different than requiring an NDA or drug test to get a job?
It follows the bit torrent model. Providing it may not help you directly, but if everyone does it then when you want to access information that someone else uploaded, it's available. Credit checks are nothing new for HR considering candidates for hire.
I don't think healthcare provider is included in PHI, but HIPAA is so broad they could shoehorn it in if they wanted to. Same with whether you have insurance.
What I pay for dental insurance comes out to a little over $200/yr and it covers almost everything including regular check-ups. Over the last few years, it has been pretty break-even between regular checkups and a two chipped teeth. Over decades, I'll probably spend more on insurance than if I paid in cash but it's nice to have a regular, predictable pre-tax expense and have one less emergency expense to worry about.
Having worked with my company's HR dept recently to fix a glitch with printing out payroll info, they are extremely paranoid about preventing other employees from seeing anyone's salary. However, the paranoia seems to be limited to preventing employees from seeing what each other makes rather than preventing any third party from accessing it.
Not relevant. Signing it is a voluntary condition of employment, same as an NDA or similar. Unless the hiring manager holds a knife to you and tells you to take the job, it's not duress.
You can already browse state employee salaries for many states. New York is http://seethroughny.net/
The same way I skip over all the pages I don't use now. I refer to the table of contents. Sure, I might still end up with some useless pages, but the signal to crap ratio will be much more favorable.
Seems to me there's a difference between "evade radar" and "doesn't show up on radar". I think of evading as active - in this case, flying in such a way as to avoid the actual radio waves whereas "doesn't show up on radar" is more about minimizing cross section, radar-absorbing paint, etc - passive methods.
Oh, you can get a lot more extreme than this. How about by the letter? The book just scrolls across your screen word by word, letter by letter with a little meter racking up until you hit STOP. The best publishers will give you the punctuation for free.
I also see this being popular with students. Buy a chapter as it comes up in class... less upfront cost and I've never had a course that used every chapter of a textbook - even the one time a professor special-ordered an abridged version of his text of choice with only certain chapters.
Or worse, they go out of business just before you can buy the last chapter of a TotalBoox exclusive.
I would be all over this. I have tons of reference ebooks that I only use a few chapters out of. If it's $40 for a 600 page book, I would gladly pay $10 for the 100 pages I would actually use even though the unit price (per page) would be higher. As it stands now, there are a lot of books I shy away from buying because a good chunk of it is irrelevant to me and the total purchase price is above my budget.
Hardly new. Take a look on Amazon sometime - there's tons of "ebooks" that are hardly more than pamphlets going for a buck or two apiece.
It's neither hidden, nor a cap. They sent out tons of warnings that they were implementing it a few months ago and you just get throttled after 5GB - there's no shutoff and no extra fees so it's not really a cap.
There is a soft cap at 5GB. There's no extra charge for going over it, you just don't have the same speed. The one time I exceeded it, I still didn't notice - even throttled back, it was still enough to do what I need it to do. If I really needed a high-speed high-cap plan, then I would pay the extra money to be raped by ATT or Verizon... but I don't so I won't as long as Virgin still gives me enough speed for email and basic web browsing even after I pass the cap.
This is only true for their basic voice service... there are Verizon and ATT towers on my work campus but my Virgin Optimus Slider phone gets no signal even where Verizon gets full strength.
$35 unlimited data is working out pretty well. How's your $70 very-limited data working out for you?
If coverage area is your only metric, then yes, Verizon is the bestestest ever. However, there are other metrics. My primary metric is cost, so I'm on Virgin Mobile in spite of the limited coverage. For some people, the extra coverage is worth the money, for me it is not.
Because then you'd need to launch all your missiles from within a relatively small area... and that would make them much easier to detect upon launch as well as much easier to stop. Missiles are not airplanes that can be launched from all over and then group up. They carry limited fuel and have relatively limited flight control so you want to take the shortest path possible to minimize detection and countermeasure time.
Depending on the type of nuke, it can be fairly difficult to accidentally set one off by shooting it down. More likely the conventional explosives in the nuke will go off in an uncontrolled manner and spray a relatively small amount of radioactive material on the ground.
I'm also not sure why you would have 50,000 nuclear explosions mid sky when there's only about 17,000 nukes still in existence, with fewer than a quarter of them active. Russia is estimated to have the most with about 8500 warheads of which fewer than 1800 are active.
It's also been shown that Israel's defense system would not scale well to large countries, such as the United States. It's a start, but still a long way from a solution.
Agreed, calculus was one of my favorite subjects in high school (the other being Latin), but I don't need anything remotely that advanced as a sysadmin. Basic seventh grade algebra gets me through the day-to-day. I know some people who do need high level math in their job and they're brilliant.
As a side note, your post is insulting to 9 year olds. I know many 7 year olds who can write better than the original poster.
I would much prefer fullname@xyz.tld over full.name@xyz.tld. It just looks cleaner and is less confusing when spelling it out to people. You expect emails to format to string@string.string. Throwing in any additional symbols, especially one that's already used elsewhere, throws people off even if there's no technical reason not to.
For simplicity, I'd say go with username@domain.com. That way there is standardization across email and other systems... which also confuses people less. Our email system (Novell GroupWise) is completely separate from Active Directory, but we force users to use the same username/password for both because it generates fewer helpdesk calls for people forgetting their password.