in the airline industry, anything like installing anything "optional" is a quick path to the unemployment line. We follow ITIL to the letter, nothing is done without a very detailed plan that also includes "rollback". Not because we really want to, but the FAA doesn't like it when some random app crashes planes so it's just not allowed. We have run books with very specific steps for everything; it all has to be documented and signed off on.
Here in the US that happens because people on unemployment insurance are required to make a specific number of applications per week. So people apply for jobs they know they won't get to keep the benefits flowing.
I totally agree, all H1B visas should have a fast track path for citizenship that the corp can't easily loophole around. We, as a multi-culture country, need these smart people to become citizens and stay here instead of getting shipped back after we've rained them and taught them how to work here. It's a waste of resources over the long term.
Wow, I'm assuming you must be some Wippro / Unisys troll, or HR for a huge corp like IBM attempting to justify why you feel that ulcer growing in your stomach every day. I've seen direct evidence when working as a CSR at AT&T when outsourcing goes bad...bad like an Al Qaeda cell in a call center in Malaysia doing ID theft, re-routing call bills to random customers who are overseas...eventually the FBI came in and had to bust up the four person ring. Or walking a "Windows system admin" through how to install IIS on a win2k box because he didn't know how, and his company had his work network so locked down he had no actual Internet access so couldn't look it up himself. Listening to a Chinese woman and an Indian woman get into a heated argument while they just refused to listen to the actual management on a call, a critical SEV1 outage, because there was a cultural fight between the two we didn't find out about until a week later. Or when we had an outage in Mexico and no one answered the on-site phone, all their numbers where wrong in the database, and we had to finally wake up a Director who had some random higher-ups cell phone and woke the site support people who apparently were all sleeping on the job...20 different people, wrong numbers with extra digits, and they let us know in the conference call (while speaking spanish, even being told repeatedly it is an "English only" room) how little they actually cared if their airport had service or not.
If you claim to be an "American company" yet stab your American workers in the back at every chance just for your profit margin, your nothing more than a psychopath. Reading your comments makes you look like that; you sound like a wannabe slave master.
It is your right, if you want to deploy your own home-brewed radio station and don't broadcast in any restricted freqs. Anyone can do it, for under $1000. No one will probably hear you, so you'll have to buy everyone receivers too. It's within your capabilities to broadcast even on FM easily, just beware the FCC and Clearchannel.
DSL no longer qualifies for broadband, even at it's max the upload is not even close to the current spec. The telecos are trying to do an end-run by "offering" LTE cellular internet, since there is nothing on the horizon that they even have in development that can hit the spec. Even the "gfast DSL" is only good for 50 meters.
" Those corporations hold a lot of power in Europe"...actually, they hold LESS power in the EU than they do in the US, were in some aspects they are considered on the same level (and above) than actual citizens. Corporations in the USA also have "free speech", and are allowed to spend money in political campaigns as much as they want. They also have religious beliefs, like how the Hobby Lobby corporation successfully argued it's "closely held beliefs" said certain birth control is actually an abortion even though medical science proves otherwise. Corporations can kill thousands of people, destroy ecosystems, yet there is no "death penalty" for corps that's been used since the trust busts. And in other countries, corps have more power than the local government including their own armed forces.
"Look behind the counter when you're at the check-in, or at the gate of an airport and likewise the airlines are all running VMS or IBM/360" actually, no they don't. My clients at work are the "major airlines". The systems behind the curtain are far more complex than a single system. IBM Z-based mainframes (running TPF), Solaris, Windows from 2000-2012, RHEL and VMware...these systems are clusters of VMs and hardware across the entire planet. Those baggage systems connect back to mainframes.
Both companies should just cease all official product sales and support in the UK. Neither company should be forced to make multiple products just because the UK demands this, but to be compliant that's exactly what they will have to do. There will be a "UK Model" IPhone, with pre broken encryption all ready to go. Of course this will horribly backfire once criminal ID theft people start exploiting this purposely weakened software. And no real criminals or terrorists will use any of these pre-cracked systems anyway, so the UK's main thrust here will do nothing but enable more ID theft. Good job, UK!
That's it? Honestly, that's pretty pitiful. Yet once this data is combed over by some more militant BLM people, I fully expect to hear about some targeted LEO assassinations. Once a person, especially one who has already been believed to be harassing minorities for awhile, is found to also be on this "list"...they will be a target. I also suspect several people in a specific area of Arizona to be outed on this list too. But really, only 1,000? Just cracking some place like Stormfront should get far more results than that.
In Oklahoma, you don't get unemployment even after filing, for the first week. I have no idea why, but the state of Oklahoma also requires you to use an old version of IE to file your claim too. Unless your using IE Tab or something in your browser...I guess my state figures if your a Mac user you don't need those benefits. Of course we also tax people who set up solar panels and our state is turning into a giant sinkhole from fraking....once a big enough earthquake hits the Cushing Oil repository the entire US will wish they had paid more attention as it contains over half the "Strategic Reserves" and will be destroyed overnight.
In working in data centers, I can totally see how this happened. Reading the actual source article, it reads like they had already connected the first circuit, and he got popped while working on the second. I would assume they had shut off both, installed the first PSU, then probably someone turned them BOTH back on instead of just the first one. When he went to connect the second PSU...
These are the kinds of accidents proper "change control" is supposed to stop, it seems no one working there really knew the over-all implementation plan. At our local data center, we have actual licensed electricians for high DC stuff, they know to "never trust always test". Even though we contract all that out too, we try to make sure the people on the site are aware of these things via bright stickers, lock-outs, etc. I have no idea if they have required licensing and training for their "cable jointer" positions in the UK.
Perhaps another possible solution, eventually, would be to provide a space on the ISS that this bacteria will naturally gathers to and attempt to colonize that could be used in some useful manner (ie, like soil). Until then, they may need to bring some UV emitters up there, possibly put them in the air purification ducts so eventually all the air gets hit. "you need an automated biosensor" quotes the article, so perhaps this will push some new tech out the door.
And many times these companies will charge the people their calling, ESPECIALLY if it's a cell phone. When I worked at AT&T as a CSR, I had many calls with repeated $15-$20 charges that came from various "prison call services" from the jailed persons family who suddenly had a $300 cell phone bill from talking to their incarcerated loved one for a few minutes.
Much of the current population stems from the Reagen / CIA produced crack cocaine epidemic in the 80's. The Feds basically created their own monster. And, here's a source!, there are many more out there. "Freeway: Crack in the System" is on netflix even.
Our current prison system is pretty much an updated version of the slave system. With the prison population at around double the population percentage for blacks (38% of prisoners vs 13% of the overall population)...they might not be in the fields picking cotton, but working real jobs for.$.30 an hour is about as close to slavery as you can legally get in the US.
I dunno about "all time low", this isn't a new situation for us. SABRE to EDS, EDS to HP, HP to whomever will take the various subcontracts. All our site support is converted to contractors, at about a $7-$10 per hour pay reduction. Oh, and NO real benefits since the ACA "employer mandate" somehow doesn't cover the contracting companies like Insight Global, Mindlance, etc. Not sure how they got to opt out when the employees didn't...
"We are now rolling out App Suggestions to Windows Insider Program participants running Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise as well." This will KILL any upgrades in many corps, no sane IT will allow their users to install random, non-standard apps in this manner. If it can't be disabled at the GPO level, this will be a deal-breaker. My corp (HPE) already has an approved Application Catalog, and people have gotten written up for installing non-standard apps, especially on PCs located inside our various command centers. It's specifically mentioned in our cyber security policies.
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in the airline industry, anything like installing anything "optional" is a quick path to the unemployment line. We follow ITIL to the letter, nothing is done without a very detailed plan that also includes "rollback". Not because we really want to, but the FAA doesn't like it when some random app crashes planes so it's just not allowed. We have run books with very specific steps for everything; it all has to be documented and signed off on.
Here in the US that happens because people on unemployment insurance are required to make a specific number of applications per week. So people apply for jobs they know they won't get to keep the benefits flowing.
I totally agree, all H1B visas should have a fast track path for citizenship that the corp can't easily loophole around. We, as a multi-culture country, need these smart people to become citizens and stay here instead of getting shipped back after we've rained them and taught them how to work here. It's a waste of resources over the long term.
Wow, I'm assuming you must be some Wippro / Unisys troll, or HR for a huge corp like IBM attempting to justify why you feel that ulcer growing in your stomach every day. I've seen direct evidence when working as a CSR at AT&T when outsourcing goes bad...bad like an Al Qaeda cell in a call center in Malaysia doing ID theft, re-routing call bills to random customers who are overseas...eventually the FBI came in and had to bust up the four person ring. Or walking a "Windows system admin" through how to install IIS on a win2k box because he didn't know how, and his company had his work network so locked down he had no actual Internet access so couldn't look it up himself. Listening to a Chinese woman and an Indian woman get into a heated argument while they just refused to listen to the actual management on a call, a critical SEV1 outage, because there was a cultural fight between the two we didn't find out about until a week later. Or when we had an outage in Mexico and no one answered the on-site phone, all their numbers where wrong in the database, and we had to finally wake up a Director who had some random higher-ups cell phone and woke the site support people who apparently were all sleeping on the job...20 different people, wrong numbers with extra digits, and they let us know in the conference call (while speaking spanish, even being told repeatedly it is an "English only" room) how little they actually cared if their airport had service or not.
If you claim to be an "American company" yet stab your American workers in the back at every chance just for your profit margin, your nothing more than a psychopath. Reading your comments makes you look like that; you sound like a wannabe slave master.
It is your right, if you want to deploy your own home-brewed radio station and don't broadcast in any restricted freqs. Anyone can do it, for under $1000. No one will probably hear you, so you'll have to buy everyone receivers too. It's within your capabilities to broadcast even on FM easily, just beware the FCC and Clearchannel.
DSL no longer qualifies for broadband, even at it's max the upload is not even close to the current spec. The telecos are trying to do an end-run by "offering" LTE cellular internet, since there is nothing on the horizon that they even have in development that can hit the spec. Even the "gfast DSL" is only good for 50 meters.
" Those corporations hold a lot of power in Europe"...actually, they hold LESS power in the EU than they do in the US, were in some aspects they are considered on the same level (and above) than actual citizens. Corporations in the USA also have "free speech", and are allowed to spend money in political campaigns as much as they want. They also have religious beliefs, like how the Hobby Lobby corporation successfully argued it's "closely held beliefs" said certain birth control is actually an abortion even though medical science proves otherwise. Corporations can kill thousands of people, destroy ecosystems, yet there is no "death penalty" for corps that's been used since the trust busts. And in other countries, corps have more power than the local government including their own armed forces.
"Look behind the counter when you're at the check-in, or at the gate of an airport and likewise the airlines are all running VMS or IBM/360" actually, no they don't. My clients at work are the "major airlines". The systems behind the curtain are far more complex than a single system. IBM Z-based mainframes (running TPF), Solaris, Windows from 2000-2012, RHEL and VMware...these systems are clusters of VMs and hardware across the entire planet. Those baggage systems connect back to mainframes.
Both companies should just cease all official product sales and support in the UK. Neither company should be forced to make multiple products just because the UK demands this, but to be compliant that's exactly what they will have to do. There will be a "UK Model" IPhone, with pre broken encryption all ready to go. Of course this will horribly backfire once criminal ID theft people start exploiting this purposely weakened software. And no real criminals or terrorists will use any of these pre-cracked systems anyway, so the UK's main thrust here will do nothing but enable more ID theft. Good job, UK!
That's it? Honestly, that's pretty pitiful. Yet once this data is combed over by some more militant BLM people, I fully expect to hear about some targeted LEO assassinations. Once a person, especially one who has already been believed to be harassing minorities for awhile, is found to also be on this "list"...they will be a target. I also suspect several people in a specific area of Arizona to be outed on this list too. But really, only 1,000? Just cracking some place like Stormfront should get far more results than that.
In Oklahoma, you don't get unemployment even after filing, for the first week. I have no idea why, but the state of Oklahoma also requires you to use an old version of IE to file your claim too. Unless your using IE Tab or something in your browser...I guess my state figures if your a Mac user you don't need those benefits. Of course we also tax people who set up solar panels and our state is turning into a giant sinkhole from fraking....once a big enough earthquake hits the Cushing Oil repository the entire US will wish they had paid more attention as it contains over half the "Strategic Reserves" and will be destroyed overnight.
"never trust always test" would have saved his life.
In working in data centers, I can totally see how this happened. Reading the actual source article, it reads like they had already connected the first circuit, and he got popped while working on the second. I would assume they had shut off both, installed the first PSU, then probably someone turned them BOTH back on instead of just the first one. When he went to connect the second PSU...
These are the kinds of accidents proper "change control" is supposed to stop, it seems no one working there really knew the over-all implementation plan. At our local data center, we have actual licensed electricians for high DC stuff, they know to "never trust always test". Even though we contract all that out too, we try to make sure the people on the site are aware of these things via bright stickers, lock-outs, etc. I have no idea if they have required licensing and training for their "cable jointer" positions in the UK.
Perhaps another possible solution, eventually, would be to provide a space on the ISS that this bacteria will naturally gathers to and attempt to colonize that could be used in some useful manner (ie, like soil). Until then, they may need to bring some UV emitters up there, possibly put them in the air purification ducts so eventually all the air gets hit. "you need an automated biosensor" quotes the article, so perhaps this will push some new tech out the door.
And many times these companies will charge the people their calling, ESPECIALLY if it's a cell phone. When I worked at AT&T as a CSR, I had many calls with repeated $15-$20 charges that came from various "prison call services" from the jailed persons family who suddenly had a $300 cell phone bill from talking to their incarcerated loved one for a few minutes.
Much of the current population stems from the Reagen / CIA produced crack cocaine epidemic in the 80's. The Feds basically created their own monster. And, here's a source!, there are many more out there. "Freeway: Crack in the System" is on netflix even.
Our current prison system is pretty much an updated version of the slave system. With the prison population at around double the population percentage for blacks (38% of prisoners vs 13% of the overall population)...they might not be in the fields picking cotton, but working real jobs for .$.30 an hour is about as close to slavery as you can legally get in the US.
I actually wish there was more a tax break on the loans, something more than just getting to knock off the interest on my taxes.
Stupidium is even denser, but the GOP has used up most of the natural supply this year with their Presidential campaign.
All systems that govern others eventually attract sociopaths.
I dunno about "all time low", this isn't a new situation for us. SABRE to EDS, EDS to HP, HP to whomever will take the various subcontracts. All our site support is converted to contractors, at about a $7-$10 per hour pay reduction. Oh, and NO real benefits since the ACA "employer mandate" somehow doesn't cover the contracting companies like Insight Global, Mindlance, etc. Not sure how they got to opt out when the employees didn't...
LOL, reminds me of Weird Al's "All About the Pentiums"...
Your laptop is a month old? Well that's great
If you could use a nice, heavy paperweight
Don't worry! With Windows 10, it actively start screaming "STEAL ME" at random times.
(hey if I can think of it, it is already in development at Microsoft, no matter how horrible an idea it is.) there, FTFY lol
"We are now rolling out App Suggestions to Windows Insider Program participants running Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise as well." This will KILL any upgrades in many corps, no sane IT will allow their users to install random, non-standard apps in this manner. If it can't be disabled at the GPO level, this will be a deal-breaker. My corp (HPE) already has an approved Application Catalog, and people have gotten written up for installing non-standard apps, especially on PCs located inside our various command centers. It's specifically mentioned in our cyber security policies.