The entire cause for these outsourcing problems is capitalism. The endless drive to increase the bottom line means that businesses no longer concern themselves with ethics or morality. They cross borders to find the cheapest labor possible. They find out how to deliver the bare minimum for the maximum possible return.
These are all tenets of modern business.
They take for granted their endless supply of customers. The simple way to deal with this is to boycott companies who outsource.
Let management, sales, and any representative know that you don't like a company who won't hire US workers. Write your congresspeople to let them know that Americans jobs are more important to you than corporate profits.
There has to be a balance. When corporate entities decide profit is more important than people, whatever side of the counter they're on, they need to be dealt with the American way; with your wallets. Vote with your wallets. Let them know we don't like their way of doing business. Though they'll probably lobby congress to pass laws to force you to do business with them, and they'll sue anyone who uses the competitor. Welcome to the new American century.
Second, you wouldn't steal a purse or a DVD, but if you had the power to duplicate that purse or DVD at will without impacting the original, you'd do it.
Third, it's not stealing. Is the movie industry all of a sudden, selling movie downloads in blu-ray quality? They aren't? Then what product am I stealing?
It's a license? I already own the film on DVD and in some cases, VHS. So I already have a license.
It's both? nope, sorry not gonna work. The FTC is seeing the glimmer of truth underneath all that industry bullshit. Does the industry really need laws to protect it when it's seeing record profits? Downloaders must not be making all that much of an impact on their revenues. It is of course, a red herring to claim that every download is lost revenue. It's not. nine times out of ten, the downloader wouldn't ever purchase something he downloaded. Lest we forget the whole reason that piracy exists is because a lot of people don't find your products to be worth the price your asking. Maybe a little market research would help. Maybe acknowledging there's a market would help.
While I have to agree with your intentions, I don't think it's that easy for their corporate officers to see what a bad idea this is.
I also say fuck-off. However, I also have to caution the FCC against these sort of actions.
When AT&T has its own games unit, they will be in direct competition with Steam and other distribution channels.
AT&T will have a vested interest in degrading the Steam experience over their networks.
I use Comcast, but the point is the same. I am, at the moment of typing this, downloading "Ghostbusters" over Steam.
If Comcast had their own games store, they would much prefer me to use their store. They would also "prioritize" their games store's downloads.
This is what net neutrality is all about. So while I say fuck-off, I also tell the FCC to investigate the legality of competing with other businesses while providing a neutral service.
The simple facts are these: The wii is a child's toy compared to the PC, xbox360 and ps3.
It cannot provide the horsepower necessary to calculate real-time physics or lighting. So it is stuck providing children's games of the same caliber it entered the market with. The game experience cannot grow or blossom like other, more powerful consoles simply because they entered the market with hardware that was too weak to sustain it. Technology changed in that time. Games are doing more things.
Just because you disagree with what a game is, doesn't mean I'm wrong. Games are not all about the game play, not any more. Games are only about the game play once you reach the technical limitations of your hardware. So, while it may be true for the wii, the other consoles and the PC are providing a much more rich experience. Games now are as much about the music and visual effects as they are about the method of control, which has seen many new options in the past year.
The once-innovative wii controller no longer holds domain over motion controllers. With the advent of project natal, sony's purple dildo controller, and the much anticipated Motus controler, the wii simply isn't necessary anymore. So cry in your ramune and eat those last pocky. Those days are over.
Of course all the nintendorks will mod me down, but remember there's no -1 disagree.
My college is pushing perl as an engineering and scientific language since 99.9% of the work a scientist might have to do will be in Unix or Linux whose administrators favor perl over fortran for such tasks.
Network buffer measurements: Uplink 810 ms, Downlink 390 ms We estimate your uplink as having 810 msec of buffering. This level can in some situations prove somewhat high, and you may experience degraded performance when performing interactive tasks such as web-surfing while simultaneously conducting large uploads. Real-time applications, such as games or audio chat, may also work poorly when conducting large uploads at the same time. We estimate your downlink as having 390 msec of buffering. This level may serve well for maximizing speed while minimizing the impact of large transfers on other traffic.
Restricted domain DNS lookup: OK We are able to successfully lookup a name which resolves to the same IP address as our webserver. This means we are able to conduct many of the tests on your DNS server.
Unrestricted domain DNS lookup: OK We are able to successfully lookup arbitrary names from within the Java applet. This means we are able to conduct all test on your DNS server.
DNS resolver address: OK The IP address of your ISP's DNS Resolver is 68.87.74.164, which resolves to npls-cns02.bonitasprngs.fl.naples.comcast.net.
DNS resolver properties: Lookup latency: 130ms Your ISP's DNS resolver requires 130 msec to conduct an external lookup. Your resolver is using QTYPE=A for default queries. Your resolver is not automatically performing IPv6 queries. Your DNS resolver does not use EDNS. Your resolver does not use 0x20 randomization, but will pass names in a case-sensitive manner.
DNS glue policy: OK Your ISP's DNS resolver does not accept generic additional (glue) records -- good. Your ISP's DNS resolver does not accept additional (glue) records which correspond to nameservers. Your ISP's DNS resolver does not follow CNAMEs.
DNS resolver port randomization: OK Your ISP's DNS resolver properly randomizes its local port number. The following graph shows DNS requests on the x-axis and the detected source ports on the y-axis.
port sequence plot
DNS lookups of popular domains: OK 74 of 74 popular names were resolved successfully. Show all names. In the following table reverse lookups that failed but for which a Start Of Authority (SOA) entry indicated correct name associations are shown using an "X", followed by the SOA entry. Absence of both IP address and reverse name indicates failed forward lookups. Name IP Address Reverse Name/SOA www.abbey.co.uk 165.160.13.20 X (pdns1.cscdns.net) ad.doubleclick.net 74.125.242.24 iad09megaadvi[...]ubleclick.net www.alliance-leicester.co.uk 194.130.105.121 X (alice.ioko365.com) www.amazon.com 207.171.166.252 166-252.amazon.com www.ameritrade.com 204.58.27.121 beta-new.tdameritrade.com www.bankofamerica.com 171.161.161.173 www.bankofamerica.com www.bankofscotland.co.uk 195.171.171.21 X (ns0.bt.net) www.bankofthewest.com 207.114.194.101 X (dns1a.bankofthewest.com) www.barclays.co.uk 213.219.1.141 X (dns1.lon7.telecityredbus.net) www.capitalone.com 208.80.50.112 X (chia.arin.NET) www.careerbuilder.com 208.82.7.22 X (smokey.careerbuilder.com) www.chase.com 159.53.60.105 X (ns1.jpmorganchase.com) chaseonline.chase.com 159.53.64.54 resources-cdc2.chase.com www.citi.com 192.193.232.227 X (ns.citicorp.com) www.citibank.com 192.193.232.227 X (ns.citicorp.com) www.citimortgage.com 192.193.103.118 X (ns.citicorp.com) www.cnn.com 157.166.226.26 www.cnn.com www.desjardins.com 142.195.128.44 desjardins.com www.deutsche-bank.de 217.73.49.24 www.deutsche-bank.de www.e-gold.com 209.200.169.10 unknown.prolexic.com www.ebay.com 66.135.217.243 hp-core.ebay.com www.etrade.com 12.153.224.22 etrade.com www.f-secure.com 96.17.147.114 a96-17-147-114.[...]echnologies.com www.facebook.com 69.63.186.31 www.13.06.ash1.facebook.com www.fdic.gov 192.147.69.84 www.fdic.gov www.friendfinder.com 208.88.180.81 X (ii53-30.friendfinderinc.com) www.geocities.com 98.137.46.72 intl1.geo.vip.sp2.yahoo.com www.google.com 74.125.65.103 gx-in-f103.google.com www.halifax.co.uk 212.140.245.97 halifax.co.uk www.hsbc.co.uk 193.108.74.126 X (ns3.hsbc.com) www.irs.gov 96.17.147.97 a96-17-147-97.d[...]echnologies.com www.jpmorganchase.com 159.53.60.166 X (ns1.jpmorganchase.com) www.lloydstsb.com 193.34.230.181 X (ns2.lloydstsb.co.uk) mail.google.com 209.85.133
I'm all for requiring security clearance with working at JPL, but I firmly believe credit history is no indicator for security.
I have been disqualified from being hired at several jobs due to my credit history. It has no bearing on me as a person or how I conduct myself professionally.
I am not an irresponsible person, nor to I lie, cheat, or steal. That being said, my credit history has a single default with a credit card I got when I was 19.
I find it morally objectionable for HR to have the capability of judging other people and gaining access to private information.
This is why I no longer consent to background checks. Oddly enough, every other member of my family has, at some point in their life, held a secret clearance. Both my parents did in the 60's My brother did in the Navy. My sister doesn't but her husband did in the Air Force.
I have been screaming this line for years and years.
It would appear, I'm a fucking visionary.
Why do they put up so many barriers to buying their content?
Make it cheaper, make it easier to find and access. If I could buy your content online in HD format for what I think it's worth, then I would buy it instead of download it. You think it's worth more than it is. You strictly control access to it. You claim that your business is suffering. Adapt to the damn market.
And finally, make up your damn mind. Is it a product or a license? You can't have it both ways. If it's a product, I can understand that. Since downloads are not stealing and aren't a diminishment of your product, we can download anything we want.
If it's a license, then I have a right to download the mp3s for all the vinyl and CDs that I own. I also have a right to download any movies I own on vhs (which is a lot.)
If it's both, we can still download anything we want.
Copyright law was intended to prevent counterfeiting. Piracy isn't counterfeiting. Downloading isn't piracy. Downloading isn't counterfeiting.
The statutory damages were intended to prevent corporate counterfeiting. They were never intended to be applied to music fans.
you should never legally be able to pierce the first sale doctrine.
Used games already gave you the price you were asking. Get over it.
gamestop may end up charging $5 less than new for some of the newest used games they stock, and that's their profit, but it doesn't belong to you.
If anything, they should stop allowing gamestop to give us so little for used games in the first place. $15 for a $60 game I bought a month ago is an insult to me.
$45 profit for selling the used game is just too damn bad for the publishers.
Get over it you whiny multi-national multi-billion dollar media conglomerates! You make me sick.
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why can't they put postive pressure inside the orbiter and pop it out?
but a better question perhaps, is why the hell is there junk rolling around inside the space shuttle?
Isn't this like withholding info from shareholders?
I would think that the health of Steve Jobs is quite important to the stock price of apple.
The entire cause for these outsourcing problems is capitalism. The endless drive to increase the bottom line means that businesses no longer concern themselves with ethics or morality. They cross borders to find the cheapest labor possible. They find out how to deliver the bare minimum for the maximum possible return.
These are all tenets of modern business.
They take for granted their endless supply of customers. The simple way to deal with this is to boycott companies who outsource.
Let management, sales, and any representative know that you don't like a company who won't hire US workers. Write your congresspeople to let them know that Americans jobs are more important to you than corporate profits.
There has to be a balance. When corporate entities decide profit is more important than people, whatever side of the counter they're on, they need to be dealt with the American way; with your wallets. Vote with your wallets. Let them know we don't like their way of doing business. Though they'll probably lobby congress to pass laws to force you to do business with them, and they'll sue anyone who uses the competitor. Welcome to the new American century.
A nicely shielded tin-foil dome to protect my head meat from the aliens!
First, downloading isn't illegal. Uploading is.
Second, you wouldn't steal a purse or a DVD, but if you had the power to duplicate that purse or DVD at will without impacting the original, you'd do it.
Third, it's not stealing. Is the movie industry all of a sudden, selling movie downloads in blu-ray quality? They aren't? Then what product am I stealing?
It's a license? I already own the film on DVD and in some cases, VHS. So I already have a license.
It's both? nope, sorry not gonna work. The FTC is seeing the glimmer of truth underneath all that industry bullshit. Does the industry really need laws to protect it when it's seeing record profits? Downloaders must not be making all that much of an impact on their revenues. It is of course, a red herring to claim that every download is lost revenue. It's not. nine times out of ten, the downloader wouldn't ever purchase something he downloaded. Lest we forget the whole reason that piracy exists is because a lot of people don't find your products to be worth the price your asking. Maybe a little market research would help. Maybe acknowledging there's a market would help.
What people play on the iphone are time-passers. Mere distractions.
While the platform is certainly selling these time passing distraction apps, I don't believe I'll call it a serious games platform.
Business goes where the money is. Sometimes the money is in wasting your time.
While I have to agree with your intentions, I don't think it's that easy for their corporate officers to see what a bad idea this is.
I also say fuck-off. However, I also have to caution the FCC against these sort of actions.
When AT&T has its own games unit, they will be in direct competition with Steam and other distribution channels.
AT&T will have a vested interest in degrading the Steam experience over their networks.
I use Comcast, but the point is the same. I am, at the moment of typing this, downloading "Ghostbusters" over Steam.
If Comcast had their own games store, they would much prefer me to use their store. They would also "prioritize" their games store's downloads.
This is what net neutrality is all about. So while I say fuck-off, I also tell the FCC to investigate the legality of competing with other businesses while providing a neutral service.
how easy is it to re-bottle a fart?
It's the same concept with spy powers.
You took the words right out of my mouth.
How can judges constantly side with corporate entities? It's not justice.
It's the perfect definition of injustice.
They could have tried to stick him with that, but there are really no charges which would have stuck.
Downloading is simply not illegal. It cannot be. You're not infringing upon anyone's copyright.
The person who put whatever content online in the first place is doing something "illegal"
copyright infringement isn't meant to be illegal persay, it's meant to discourage counterfeiting.
you pay for unlimited Internet access already. How can they charge you extra for using their sanctioned device's built-in functionality?
That seems an awful lot like double-dipping.
I can already tether with my G1, but what's the point when T-mobile's 3g coverage is like Swiss cheese. Slow Swiss cheese.
Don't spy on American citizens in America.
That was their one rule. Their only rule.
Now, they capture the majority of Internet traffic and store it for analysis.
That's Bush for you.
This crazy old man always siding with his benefactors!
First let's make one thing clear, applauding miscarriages of justice should be entirely discouraged of U.S. Senators.
We've already been made aware of the judge in TPB's trial was a member of the content industry's trade organization.
That's clearly a conflict of interest. It may even be illegal for the judge to have not recused himself.
So, Senator Hatch should really open his crusty old eyes and realize that what he's doing is hurting America and her people.
The simple facts are these: The wii is a child's toy compared to the PC, xbox360 and ps3.
It cannot provide the horsepower necessary to calculate real-time physics or lighting. So it is stuck providing children's games of the same caliber it entered the market with. The game experience cannot grow or blossom like other, more powerful consoles simply because they entered the market with hardware that was too weak to sustain it. Technology changed in that time. Games are doing more things.
Just because you disagree with what a game is, doesn't mean I'm wrong. Games are not all about the game play, not any more. Games are only about the game play once you reach the technical limitations of your hardware. So, while it may be true for the wii, the other consoles and the PC are providing a much more rich experience. Games now are as much about the music and visual effects as they are about the method of control, which has seen many new options in the past year.
The once-innovative wii controller no longer holds domain over motion controllers. With the advent of project natal, sony's purple dildo controller, and the much anticipated Motus controler, the wii simply isn't necessary anymore. So cry in your ramune and eat those last pocky. Those days are over.
Of course all the nintendorks will mod me down, but remember there's no -1 disagree.
Fortran is not the future.
My college is pushing perl as an engineering and scientific language since 99.9% of the work a scientist might have to do will be in Unix or Linux whose administrators favor perl over fortran for such tasks.
if the average user gives an average of 1-2 dollars per month, how can 5000 users generate 230,000 dollars?
Network buffer measurements: Uplink 810 ms, Downlink 390 ms
We estimate your uplink as having 810 msec of buffering. This level can in some situations prove somewhat high, and you may experience degraded performance when performing interactive tasks such as web-surfing while simultaneously conducting large uploads. Real-time applications, such as games or audio chat, may also work poorly when conducting large uploads at the same time.
We estimate your downlink as having 390 msec of buffering. This level may serve well for maximizing speed while minimizing the impact of large transfers on other traffic.
DNS Tests
Restricted domain DNS lookup: OK
We are able to successfully lookup a name which resolves to the same IP address as our webserver. This means we are able to conduct many of the tests on your DNS server.
Unrestricted domain DNS lookup: OK
We are able to successfully lookup arbitrary names from within the Java applet. This means we are able to conduct all test on your DNS server.
DNS resolver address: OK
The IP address of your ISP's DNS Resolver is 68.87.74.164, which resolves to npls-cns02.bonitasprngs.fl.naples.comcast.net.
DNS resolver properties: Lookup latency: 130ms
Your ISP's DNS resolver requires 130 msec to conduct an external lookup.
Your resolver is using QTYPE=A for default queries.
Your resolver is not automatically performing IPv6 queries.
Your DNS resolver does not use EDNS.
Your resolver does not use 0x20 randomization, but will pass names in a case-sensitive manner.
DNS glue policy: OK
Your ISP's DNS resolver does not accept generic additional (glue) records -- good.
Your ISP's DNS resolver does not accept additional (glue) records which correspond to nameservers.
Your ISP's DNS resolver does not follow CNAMEs.
DNS resolver port randomization: OK
Your ISP's DNS resolver properly randomizes its local port number.
The following graph shows DNS requests on the x-axis and the detected source ports on the y-axis.
port sequence plot
DNS lookups of popular domains: OK
74 of 74 popular names were resolved successfully. Show all names.
In the following table reverse lookups that failed but for which a Start Of Authority (SOA) entry indicated correct name associations are shown using an "X", followed by the SOA entry. Absence of both IP address and reverse name indicates failed forward lookups.
Name IP Address Reverse Name/SOA
www.abbey.co.uk 165.160.13.20 X (pdns1.cscdns.net)
ad.doubleclick.net 74.125.242.24 iad09megaadvi[...]ubleclick.net
www.alliance-leicester.co.uk 194.130.105.121 X (alice.ioko365.com)
www.amazon.com 207.171.166.252 166-252.amazon.com
www.ameritrade.com 204.58.27.121 beta-new.tdameritrade.com
www.bankofamerica.com 171.161.161.173 www.bankofamerica.com
www.bankofscotland.co.uk 195.171.171.21 X (ns0.bt.net)
www.bankofthewest.com 207.114.194.101 X (dns1a.bankofthewest.com)
www.barclays.co.uk 213.219.1.141 X (dns1.lon7.telecityredbus.net)
www.capitalone.com 208.80.50.112 X (chia.arin.NET)
www.careerbuilder.com 208.82.7.22 X (smokey.careerbuilder.com)
www.chase.com 159.53.60.105 X (ns1.jpmorganchase.com)
chaseonline.chase.com 159.53.64.54 resources-cdc2.chase.com
www.citi.com 192.193.232.227 X (ns.citicorp.com)
www.citibank.com 192.193.232.227 X (ns.citicorp.com)
www.citimortgage.com 192.193.103.118 X (ns.citicorp.com)
www.cnn.com 157.166.226.26 www.cnn.com
www.desjardins.com 142.195.128.44 desjardins.com
www.deutsche-bank.de 217.73.49.24 www.deutsche-bank.de
www.e-gold.com 209.200.169.10 unknown.prolexic.com
www.ebay.com 66.135.217.243 hp-core.ebay.com
www.etrade.com 12.153.224.22 etrade.com
www.f-secure.com 96.17.147.114 a96-17-147-114.[...]echnologies.com
www.facebook.com 69.63.186.31 www.13.06.ash1.facebook.com
www.fdic.gov 192.147.69.84 www.fdic.gov
www.friendfinder.com 208.88.180.81 X (ii53-30.friendfinderinc.com)
www.geocities.com 98.137.46.72 intl1.geo.vip.sp2.yahoo.com
www.google.com 74.125.65.103 gx-in-f103.google.com
www.halifax.co.uk 212.140.245.97 halifax.co.uk
www.hsbc.co.uk 193.108.74.126 X (ns3.hsbc.com)
www.irs.gov 96.17.147.97 a96-17-147-97.d[...]echnologies.com
www.jpmorganchase.com 159.53.60.166 X (ns1.jpmorganchase.com)
www.lloydstsb.com 193.34.230.181 X (ns2.lloydstsb.co.uk)
mail.google.com 209.85.133
WTF?
How is this worse than kids not learning in the first place?
Most kids see no value in education because they're kids.
Paying them, not only prepares them for life, it stresses the value of hard work and provides real results for that work.
Kids learn both their curriculum and that working hard provides tangible returns.
I'm all for requiring security clearance with working at JPL, but I firmly believe credit history is no indicator for security.
I have been disqualified from being hired at several jobs due to my credit history. It has no bearing on me as a person or how I conduct myself professionally.
I am not an irresponsible person, nor to I lie, cheat, or steal. That being said, my credit history has a single default with a credit card I got when I was 19.
I find it morally objectionable for HR to have the capability of judging other people and gaining access to private information.
This is why I no longer consent to background checks. Oddly enough, every other member of my family has, at some point in their life, held a secret clearance. Both my parents did in the 60's My brother did in the Navy. My sister doesn't but her husband did in the Air Force.
I have been screaming this line for years and years.
It would appear, I'm a fucking visionary.
Why do they put up so many barriers to buying their content?
Make it cheaper, make it easier to find and access. If I could buy your content online in HD format for what I think it's worth, then I would buy it instead of download it. You think it's worth more than it is. You strictly control access to it. You claim that your business is suffering. Adapt to the damn market.
And finally, make up your damn mind. Is it a product or a license? You can't have it both ways. If it's a product, I can understand that. Since downloads are not stealing and aren't a diminishment of your product, we can download anything we want.
If it's a license, then I have a right to download the mp3s for all the vinyl and CDs that I own. I also have a right to download any movies I own on vhs (which is a lot.)
If it's both, we can still download anything we want.
Copyright law was intended to prevent counterfeiting. Piracy isn't counterfeiting. Downloading isn't piracy. Downloading isn't counterfeiting.
The statutory damages were intended to prevent corporate counterfeiting. They were never intended to be applied to music fans.
their point!
my point of view is quite different from that of a multi-national multi-billion dollar media conglomerate.
cry me a damn river publishers!
you should never legally be able to pierce the first sale doctrine.
Used games already gave you the price you were asking. Get over it.
gamestop may end up charging $5 less than new for some of the newest used games they stock, and that's their profit, but it doesn't belong to you.
If anything, they should stop allowing gamestop to give us so little for used games in the first place. $15 for a $60 game I bought a month ago is an insult to me.
$45 profit for selling the used game is just too damn bad for the publishers.
Get over it you whiny multi-national multi-billion dollar media conglomerates! You make me sick.
the whole point of having advertising is to not charge for content.
the whole point of charging for content is not having advertising.
having both is the epic fail.
they're going to find out just how fast the consumer rules the Internet.
well, hints are based on how the system is set up.
The controller has a purple lighted tip that the eye toy locks onto and tracks.
This is giving way to the system's new name: The purple-helmeted warrior.