These regulators got hired by Obama. Here is the secret. Both parties are paid by Wall Street and other industries. Only Beto in Texas who is running has not taken any money from a PAC. Sad, but a very real fucking problem.
Trump won't drain the swamp that Obama created as he is the swamp itself. It still happens and he has hired those with an R instead of a D next to their name but really perform the same job and make sure money gets sent to the master on the top. Oh, wait he will prosecute?! Then get a new master as they have the money for sexy campaign commercials that make the opponents un-American on either party until they get someone who will dance to their tune.
This guy had nothing like that so the rules only apply to him.
Yep. Big banks even call clients to get numbers and sell ahead of time. Normal. This guy got busted because he thought he was big but not. The government's job is to protect the real sharks with a revolving door between government, lobbyist, and corporate jobs. If he worked for BOA for example he would not be charged.
My socialistic and liberal scary opinion is... only the owners or investors should get salaried! I guarantee you profit sharing or mass hiring would ensue as in the past only the owners had a salary. Today's system is only non managers get OT so business changed job titles to get around it. In France or Spain this is illegal!
If you work alot you should have skin in the game as an owner. If no after 40 you leave. If work is not done hire more. Ooops no qualified workers?! Pay fucking more. Salaries are the same in 2000 as today! Rent which was $300 a month is $1000 a month today but the workers get paid the same. Rediculious! Enough is enough.
THis assumes an Indian developer who is happy to get his first job and has a fake resume from his contractor company wouldn't be thrilled to take such a job!
Unfortunately, since H1B1 visas have been eliminated it means many organizations or just outsourcing to cheap third world countries again thanks to Trump. You have no right to dictate as someone will always under bid you. The best thing is to leave as the manager is indespensible and the peons like YOU are the ones who are always fired. In Houston the Oil and Gas industry never fired HR or their managers but just the regular workers. It means 4 pointers (aka managers) to 1 worker as the workers are fired but the managers always keep their jobs and sit in meetings even if they have 1 employee.
Man I am getting cynical... fuck! But it is what I see here and how bullshitters win always in the end and a scheduling PM or manager will win every battle so you must leave if you don't like it.
Here is the deal. It depends on the management of the organization. I don't write software but do IT support with incompetent IT project managers. My job in their eyes was to make them look good for their bonus and if I didn't do that... then I needed to be fired so someone other ass kicker would. If you have experience RUN and give them the finger.
If you don't have experience as I had a gap back in 2013 back in the Great fucking Recession of 2009 I sucked up. I gained weight, lost a marriage, grew gray hair and they got rid of me anyway for not being a team player. I learned not to be a pushover from the experience as a business only concern is it's customers NOT YOU. It is YOUR job to take care of you. Not your employer who NEVER has your interests at heart.
It is a very different world from our grandparents. Look out for you as your employer will take advantage for you or find a young mellinial who will for a fraction of the cost. Look after you and find a good employer. If you want to move up and you are young then go ahead and get some experience, but if you have it then you have more leverage than they do.
Thanks Steve Jobs for making phones throw away items when the battery gets shot or when an update slows it down. Sure it legally is under warranty but time to buy a new one if you want a good charge and is not slow as a dog
Again Teams is not a chat program. It is a groupware app. On the backend when you create a group like Marketing it creates the SharePoint and One Drive for Business folders automatically so you can collaborate. I am not familiar with Slack at all but I would imagine has sharing options and custom group permissions as well.
It is not a violation if Teams or Slack is just a front end to a backend app such like a website. IIRC also is not as secure for corporate communications nor has the permissions. If you think about it it makes sense if you are medium sized business or a large one where you don't want IT involved to get stuff done where a cookie cutter template solution can go in.
Teams is not chat based?? Teams has groups and each group created automatically creates a SharePoint site as well as a OneDrive for business folder group with custom permissions with no IT department required. Teams also has Yammer and Skype integration as well.
I never used Slack but I assume it is similar and has lots of functionality.
IRC is not even close and it is 2018 and not 1998 as I have not went into an IRC chatroom in many years and I am surprised people still use it?!
Corporate IT requires approval from INFOSEC security and a month of meetings with IT managers when a project needs to be done at the end of this month. There is no time for that.
I am trying my hardest to leave desktop support out of my IT career for these reasons and annoying.PST archives from Outlook.
The problem is a broken process and people who HATE IT and just need it done taking matters in their own hands which Excel and Salesforce.com do just that. Then IT gets the blame and ends up supporting it anyway and now with 1 million cells is irreplaceable as programs and other spreadsheets have hard links to your shared drive to that exact Excel spreadsheets and the company will cease to function if that.xls file is lost.
You don't get it. Approvals and budgets are set and workers have bosses who demand stuff is done yesterday and can't wait. IT supports the users and not the other way around in their eyes.
But that would require a license and IT to approve?! We don't have time as this project needs to get started so let's just use Excel because it is there... etc
Nope AMD has spectre vulnerabilities as well. It may have only 2 of the 3 discovered but it also uses branch prediction. Intel is faster too in gaming as AMD can't keep up if you read any benchmarks?
The best solution is to wait until 2019 or 2020 until CPU fixes come in.
AMD Ryzen3 Zen2 will be coming out with security fixes and so will Intel's next generation CPUs. Also DDR 5 is coming out making your DDR 4 investment obsolete fast.
It is a CPU problem as stated as the bios can only do so much when the circuitry itself by default generates all sorts of forgone conclusions which is what branch prediction is.
A CPU fix will be needed and none are around. AMD is a little more secure but it too has 2 of the 3 spectre bugs that Intel has.
My 2014 era Haswel i7 4770K runs VM's and games competitively to newer CPUs with only a 10% to 15% loss in performance. This is 2018 not 1998.
THe only thing a newer system will do is provide more cores which may be nice for a few Vms and NVME drives with theoretical performance as I/O in benchmarks are not the same in the real world, oh and I can charge my phone with a type-C connector.
Change for the sake of change is expensive and many of us prefer Windows 7. My system runs 10 but after the latest update fiasco I don't blame users to keep 7 and older hardware if they don't need to upgrade. It just works and works well.
.,.. until that MBA guy flips out about his PST archive folders in Outlook. God forbid his disk dies or you push an update to Office 365 and his PST files which are not in c:\users are not moved or worst uninstalled.
That can be a resume altering event as the IT guy always gets the blame and fired. Not the exec who can't be bothered with backups.
PST files/Archive folders in Outlook are the bane of my experience always with Windows support as everyone is so anal about every email from 1997 onwarding must be always available at all time even if it is over 200+ gbs in size and require an i7 to respond.
Regardless yes documents are stored but unlike a Mac or Linux things like my example above and applications can't be moved and copied making Windows a mess.
This just shows that if you are stuck in win32 land for work or games get the "Pro" version or upgrade to it if your PC came with home.
I have the pro version so I never had these problems. All my Feature Updates under Update settings are set to 90+ days. I won't get 1809 until February when the bugs are fixed. I have security updates also set for +9 days so in case a bad update is pulled I don't get it on my PC.
Also, I get Hyper-V too which is free with Pro and beats VMWare Workstation and VirtualBox by a longshot as a type 1 hypervisor. Contrary to belief here on slashdot Linux, FreeBSD, and even FreeBSD based appliances like PfSense have GREAT support for Hyper-V in the kernel. No guest tools needed which is surprising.
I still would prefer a Linux OS, but for desktop stuff and World of Warcraft I find Windows 10 even with all this freaking hell with pushed agile updates (for an OS not designed for it as being monolithic) still has less issues with non-Unix software. I miss Gnome2 greatly which is another reason.
If you're a geek or use the PC for things actually important get Windows 10 Pro if Linux can't suit your needs.
Unfortunately LTSB is years old and missing newer things and the Windows Store and has all the problems of RTM of 2015.
For example, WIndows Update takes 2 - 3 hours! Also updates can corrupt easier too as MS fixed these in newer versions of Windows 10. LTSB lacks WSL for Linux. LTSB lacks the Windows Store for things like Hulu and Netflix which is nice if you are a road warrior and use a Surface or Tablet/Hybrid thin device. LTSB also is missing control of how the updates (not features are used) that have been added in more modern versions of Windows 10. WIndows 10 LTSB won't support OneNote once Office 2019 comes out as it is only available in the Windows Store. LTSB has a monthly charge too!
If you spend the extra $$ to upgrade from home to Pro or to buy Pro you can control Windows updates for up to 365 for feature updates and 90 days for security but get to keep all the newer fixes I described above. Hyper-V virtualization is an added plus too! FreeBSD, PFsense, and Linux have the guest kernel additions integrated unlike VMWare or Virtualbox. Just boot them up and they work as VmWare Workstation is getting expensive with constant upgrades.
My Win10 Pro box is set to not get 1803 until January and for good reason while security updates. If you are stuck on Windows I have the "Pro" version a good compromise and I would not run LTSB as I am reliant on Hyper-V and the Windows Store for some apps.
Speaking of WIndows 7 is ahead of 10 as you can make snapshots. WTF happened when it was removed with Windows 8 and later?
It still is way behind but winFS was supposed to provide this and we all know that failed. I wonder if ReFS has anything like this for those stuck requiring win32 software?
I still want that and a million other posters asks for this for years in the feedback app.
Anyway I am addicted to type 1 hypervisors which means Hyper-V thanks to Intel crippling my i7 4770K with VT-D IO so I can't run VmWare esphere so I will be sticking with the later version of Windows 10 as Hyper-V seems buggiest with new releases as it is never tests thanks to only Grandma and average Joes testing new releases.
Bill Gates (not me) owns a Samsung phone and we know that MS gave up on WIndows Phone then it is no wonder. MS wants a MS flavored Android with Visual Studio Android.NET Ximarian apps and of course a MS store. WSL for Windows 10 to run Linux was from project Astoria that was meant to run Android apps on Windows 10.
It seems MS wants a piece of Android pie which is so weird but makes sense as MS now loves Linux and open source.
They have submitted code. Infact clang is an option in visual studio community as an option..net core is available for Linux and so is visual studio code editor. Redhat is ditching Mono and even including Microsoft's Rosslyn and let's not forget WSL for Windows10 nor Android sdk including Android emulators with Visual studio either or the fact that Bill Gates himself owns a Samsung phone.
I am not saying to be a MS fanboy. What I am saying is MS is changing due to the world changing around them. It isn't 1999 anymore. Apple is much more powerful and popular than back then. Also IOS, Android, HTML 5 browsers, cloud computing, and a plethora of free languages and apis like python, R, rust, node.js, and others changed the landscape. Gone are VB, COM, vc++, Internet Explorer, and WinCE.
MS has a new CEO who realized they no longer set the pace of the industry and if they want to remain relevant they and not loose mellinial developers they need to include, not exclude.
So that is the argument. Remember Apple was cool here and open source too back in 1999 on slashdot. They turned assholish FAST and more aggressive than MS when they got power. All companies are the same once they corner a market
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Right because Fox news and Briebart are so reputable
These regulators got hired by Obama. Here is the secret. Both parties are paid by Wall Street and other industries. Only Beto in Texas who is running has not taken any money from a PAC. Sad, but a very real fucking problem.
Trump won't drain the swamp that Obama created as he is the swamp itself. It still happens and he has hired those with an R instead of a D next to their name but really perform the same job and make sure money gets sent to the master on the top. Oh, wait he will prosecute?! Then get a new master as they have the money for sexy campaign commercials that make the opponents un-American on either party until they get someone who will dance to their tune.
This guy had nothing like that so the rules only apply to him.
Yep. Big banks even call clients to get numbers and sell ahead of time. Normal. This guy got busted because he thought he was big but not. The government's job is to protect the real sharks with a revolving door between government, lobbyist, and corporate jobs. If he worked for BOA for example he would not be charged.
My socialistic and liberal scary opinion is ... only the owners or investors should get salaried! I guarantee you profit sharing or mass hiring would ensue as in the past only the owners had a salary. Today's system is only non managers get OT so business changed job titles to get around it. In France or Spain this is illegal!
If you work alot you should have skin in the game as an owner. If no after 40 you leave. If work is not done hire more. Ooops no qualified workers?! Pay fucking more. Salaries are the same in 2000 as today! Rent which was $300 a month is $1000 a month today but the workers get paid the same. Rediculious! Enough is enough.
THis assumes an Indian developer who is happy to get his first job and has a fake resume from his contractor company wouldn't be thrilled to take such a job!
Unfortunately, since H1B1 visas have been eliminated it means many organizations or just outsourcing to cheap third world countries again thanks to Trump. You have no right to dictate as someone will always under bid you. The best thing is to leave as the manager is indespensible and the peons like YOU are the ones who are always fired. In Houston the Oil and Gas industry never fired HR or their managers but just the regular workers. It means 4 pointers (aka managers) to 1 worker as the workers are fired but the managers always keep their jobs and sit in meetings even if they have 1 employee.
Man I am getting cynical ... fuck! But it is what I see here and how bullshitters win always in the end and a scheduling PM or manager will win every battle so you must leave if you don't like it.
Here is the deal. It depends on the management of the organization. I don't write software but do IT support with incompetent IT project managers. My job in their eyes was to make them look good for their bonus and if I didn't do that ... then I needed to be fired so someone other ass kicker would. If you have experience RUN and give them the finger.
If you don't have experience as I had a gap back in 2013 back in the Great fucking Recession of 2009 I sucked up. I gained weight, lost a marriage, grew gray hair and they got rid of me anyway for not being a team player. I learned not to be a pushover from the experience as a business only concern is it's customers NOT YOU. It is YOUR job to take care of you. Not your employer who NEVER has your interests at heart.
It is a very different world from our grandparents. Look out for you as your employer will take advantage for you or find a young mellinial who will for a fraction of the cost. Look after you and find a good employer. If you want to move up and you are young then go ahead and get some experience, but if you have it then you have more leverage than they do.
Thanks Steve Jobs for making phones throw away items when the battery gets shot or when an update slows it down. Sure it legally is under warranty but time to buy a new one if you want a good charge and is not slow as a dog
Again Teams is not a chat program. It is a groupware app. On the backend when you create a group like Marketing it creates the SharePoint and One Drive for Business folders automatically so you can collaborate. I am not familiar with Slack at all but I would imagine has sharing options and custom group permissions as well.
It is not a violation if Teams or Slack is just a front end to a backend app such like a website. IIRC also is not as secure for corporate communications nor has the permissions. If you think about it it makes sense if you are medium sized business or a large one where you don't want IT involved to get stuff done where a cookie cutter template solution can go in.
Can IIRC create custom SharePoint sites and groups with OneDrive for business with no IT department just like Teams then?
Teams is not chat based?? Teams has groups and each group created automatically creates a SharePoint site as well as a OneDrive for business folder group with custom permissions with no IT department required. Teams also has Yammer and Skype integration as well.
I never used Slack but I assume it is similar and has lots of functionality.
IRC is not even close and it is 2018 and not 1998 as I have not went into an IRC chatroom in many years and I am surprised people still use it?!
Corporate IT requires approval from INFOSEC security and a month of meetings with IT managers when a project needs to be done at the end of this month. There is no time for that.
I am trying my hardest to leave desktop support out of my IT career for these reasons and annoying .PST archives from Outlook.
The problem is a broken process and people who HATE IT and just need it done taking matters in their own hands which Excel and Salesforce.com do just that. Then IT gets the blame and ends up supporting it anyway and now with 1 million cells is irreplaceable as programs and other spreadsheets have hard links to your shared drive to that exact Excel spreadsheets and the company will cease to function if that .xls file is lost.
You don't get it. Approvals and budgets are set and workers have bosses who demand stuff is done yesterday and can't wait. IT supports the users and not the other way around in their eyes.
But that would require a license and IT to approve?! We don't have time as this project needs to get started so let's just use Excel because it is there ... etc
Nope AMD has spectre vulnerabilities as well. It may have only 2 of the 3 discovered but it also uses branch prediction. Intel is faster too in gaming as AMD can't keep up if you read any benchmarks?
The best solution is to wait until 2019 or 2020 until CPU fixes come in.
AMD Ryzen3 Zen2 will be coming out with security fixes and so will Intel's next generation CPUs. Also DDR 5 is coming out making your DDR 4 investment obsolete fast.
It is a CPU problem as stated as the bios can only do so much when the circuitry itself by default generates all sorts of forgone conclusions which is what branch prediction is.
A CPU fix will be needed and none are around. AMD is a little more secure but it too has 2 of the 3 spectre bugs that Intel has.
My 2014 era Haswel i7 4770K runs VM's and games competitively to newer CPUs with only a 10% to 15% loss in performance. This is 2018 not 1998.
THe only thing a newer system will do is provide more cores which may be nice for a few Vms and NVME drives with theoretical performance as I/O in benchmarks are not the same in the real world, oh and I can charge my phone with a type-C connector.
Change for the sake of change is expensive and many of us prefer Windows 7. My system runs 10 but after the latest update fiasco I don't blame users to keep 7 and older hardware if they don't need to upgrade. It just works and works well.
Moores law has been fulfilled.
.,.. until that MBA guy flips out about his PST archive folders in Outlook. God forbid his disk dies or you push an update to Office 365 and his PST files which are not in c:\users are not moved or worst uninstalled.
That can be a resume altering event as the IT guy always gets the blame and fired. Not the exec who can't be bothered with backups.
PST files/Archive folders in Outlook are the bane of my experience always with Windows support as everyone is so anal about every email from 1997 onwarding must be always available at all time even if it is over 200+ gbs in size and require an i7 to respond.
Regardless yes documents are stored but unlike a Mac or Linux things like my example above and applications can't be moved and copied making Windows a mess.
WTF Microsoft?!
This just shows that if you are stuck in win32 land for work or games get the "Pro" version or upgrade to it if your PC came with home.
I have the pro version so I never had these problems. All my Feature Updates under Update settings are set to 90+ days. I won't get 1809 until February when the bugs are fixed. I have security updates also set for +9 days so in case a bad update is pulled I don't get it on my PC.
Also, I get Hyper-V too which is free with Pro and beats VMWare Workstation and VirtualBox by a longshot as a type 1 hypervisor. Contrary to belief here on slashdot Linux, FreeBSD, and even FreeBSD based appliances like PfSense have GREAT support for Hyper-V in the kernel. No guest tools needed which is surprising.
I still would prefer a Linux OS, but for desktop stuff and World of Warcraft I find Windows 10 even with all this freaking hell with pushed agile updates (for an OS not designed for it as being monolithic) still has less issues with non-Unix software. I miss Gnome2 greatly which is another reason.
If you're a geek or use the PC for things actually important get Windows 10 Pro if Linux can't suit your needs.
Unfortunately LTSB is years old and missing newer things and the Windows Store and has all the problems of RTM of 2015.
For example, WIndows Update takes 2 - 3 hours! Also updates can corrupt easier too as MS fixed these in newer versions of Windows 10. LTSB lacks WSL for Linux. LTSB lacks the Windows Store for things like Hulu and Netflix which is nice if you are a road warrior and use a Surface or Tablet/Hybrid thin device. LTSB also is missing control of how the updates (not features are used) that have been added in more modern versions of Windows 10. WIndows 10 LTSB won't support OneNote once Office 2019 comes out as it is only available in the Windows Store. LTSB has a monthly charge too!
If you spend the extra $$ to upgrade from home to Pro or to buy Pro you can control Windows updates for up to 365 for feature updates and 90 days for security but get to keep all the newer fixes I described above. Hyper-V virtualization is an added plus too! FreeBSD, PFsense, and Linux have the guest kernel additions integrated unlike VMWare or Virtualbox. Just boot them up and they work as VmWare Workstation is getting expensive with constant upgrades.
My Win10 Pro box is set to not get 1803 until January and for good reason while security updates. If you are stuck on Windows I have the "Pro" version a good compromise and I would not run LTSB as I am reliant on Hyper-V and the Windows Store for some apps.
Speaking of WIndows 7 is ahead of 10 as you can make snapshots. WTF happened when it was removed with Windows 8 and later?
It still is way behind but winFS was supposed to provide this and we all know that failed. I wonder if ReFS has anything like this for those stuck requiring win32 software?
I still want that and a million other posters asks for this for years in the feedback app.
Anyway I am addicted to type 1 hypervisors which means Hyper-V thanks to Intel crippling my i7 4770K with VT-D IO so I can't run VmWare esphere so I will be sticking with the later version of Windows 10 as Hyper-V seems buggiest with new releases as it is never tests thanks to only Grandma and average Joes testing new releases.
Will he make cool patches or focus on DragonFly and occasional FreeBSd patches instead
Bill Gates (not me) owns a Samsung phone and we know that MS gave up on WIndows Phone then it is no wonder. MS wants a MS flavored Android with Visual Studio Android .NET Ximarian apps and of course a MS store. WSL for Windows 10 to run Linux was from project Astoria that was meant to run Android apps on Windows 10.
It seems MS wants a piece of Android pie which is so weird but makes sense as MS now loves Linux and open source.
Ok so you mean this? https://github.com/dotnet/core
They have submitted code. Infact clang is an option in visual studio community as an option. .net core is available for Linux and so is visual studio code editor. Redhat is ditching Mono and even including Microsoft's Rosslyn and let's not forget WSL for Windows10 nor Android sdk including Android emulators with Visual studio either or the fact that Bill Gates himself owns a Samsung phone.
I am not saying to be a MS fanboy. What I am saying is MS is changing due to the world changing around them. It isn't 1999 anymore. Apple is much more powerful and popular than back then. Also IOS, Android, HTML 5 browsers, cloud computing, and a plethora of free languages and apis like python, R, rust, node.js, and others changed the landscape. Gone are VB, COM, vc++, Internet Explorer, and WinCE.
MS has a new CEO who realized they no longer set the pace of the industry and if they want to remain relevant they and not loose mellinial developers they need to include, not exclude.
So that is the argument. Remember Apple was cool here and open source too back in 1999 on slashdot. They turned assholish FAST and more aggressive than MS when they got power. All companies are the same once they corner a market