I have to agree. I used to work for a company that shifted from FTE to on-shore and finally off-shore resources.
My experience is during the initial (try-out) phase, we received the creame. After that try out phase, what we got was bottom of the barrel (even after saying no to the worst of the lot). I spent twice as much time managing the effort as it would have taken me to do it myself. The resources were even less effective (my benchmark for "average" off-shore indian resources was at 20% of what I and my fellow coworkers did).
I spent a lot of time trying to convince my management that at one third the cost (then) and 5 times the effort, not counting my time or the on-shore liason's time, outsourcing the project was wrong.
Didn't matter. It was policy to send off-shore. So, I am now happily employed elsewhere. From keeping in touch with friends their, the ratio hasn't improve with time.
If I recall correctly, in addition to avoiding possible civilian casualties, the mylar in nearby trees, on roofs, desert dunes, etc. had to be cleaned up, or it would blow onto the lines and short them out again. Appearantly it takes a lot longer to clean up the stuff floating around the neighborhood than it does to replace the infrastructure.
Beware what you ask for...
The company which I work for does have such a program... compulsory for everybody, including those in a technical position (like say... Client/Server programmer). You can "test out", but it doesn't save you much time. I've been dodging it for a while now.
Unfortunately, even with such a program, it isn't always a help. From what I see, the class doesn't teach some of the fundementals (like emptying the recycling bin periodically or cleaning up the Temp directory). Unbelievably, our "help desk" missed this and after confirming that free space was at 0MB, recomended a coworker buy a new hardware (the PC is less than 1 year old).
IANAL, but once they were on US soil, the constitution would apply. Since what I have gathered from the threads so far (I haven't been able to get back into the article to confirm my skim earlier), the hackers came to the US, had their codes sniffed as part of a demo, were arrested and then the hacker's machines were hacked by the FBI.
Since this doesn't appear to be appear to be a national security issue, and the hackers were in custody where they couldn't "damage" or erase their machines, the FBI should have gotten the search warrent before hacking the machines.
Also, since the FBI hack of the Russian machines originated from the US (and particularly since it was knowingly extended into Russia), I think the laws of both nations apply.
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I have to agree. I used to work for a company that shifted from FTE to on-shore and finally off-shore resources.
My experience is during the initial (try-out) phase, we received the creame. After that try out phase, what we got was bottom of the barrel (even after saying no to the worst of the lot). I spent twice as much time managing the effort as it would have taken me to do it myself. The resources were even less effective (my benchmark for "average" off-shore indian resources was at 20% of what I and my fellow coworkers did).
I spent a lot of time trying to convince my management that at one third the cost (then) and 5 times the effort, not counting my time or the on-shore liason's time, outsourcing the project was wrong.
Didn't matter. It was policy to send off-shore. So, I am now happily employed elsewhere. From keeping in touch with friends their, the ratio hasn't improve with time.
Of course... your milage may vary.
If I recall correctly, in addition to avoiding possible civilian casualties, the mylar in nearby trees, on roofs, desert dunes, etc. had to be cleaned up, or it would blow onto the lines and short them out again. Appearantly it takes a lot longer to clean up the stuff floating around the neighborhood than it does to replace the infrastructure.
Beware what you ask for... The company which I work for does have such a program... compulsory for everybody, including those in a technical position (like say... Client/Server programmer). You can "test out", but it doesn't save you much time. I've been dodging it for a while now. Unfortunately, even with such a program, it isn't always a help. From what I see, the class doesn't teach some of the fundementals (like emptying the recycling bin periodically or cleaning up the Temp directory). Unbelievably, our "help desk" missed this and after confirming that free space was at 0MB, recomended a coworker buy a new hardware (the PC is less than 1 year old).
IANAL, but once they were on US soil, the constitution would apply. Since what I have gathered from the threads so far (I haven't been able to get back into the article to confirm my skim earlier), the hackers came to the US, had their codes sniffed as part of a demo, were arrested and then the hacker's machines were hacked by the FBI.
Since this doesn't appear to be appear to be a national security issue, and the hackers were in custody where they couldn't "damage" or erase their machines, the FBI should have gotten the search warrent before hacking the machines.
Also, since the FBI hack of the Russian machines originated from the US (and particularly since it was knowingly extended into Russia), I think the laws of both nations apply.