You're defining a non-exploitative wage, as a reasonable US wage. That is completely US-centric. You're taking some of the highest paid employees in the world, and saying this is the only reasonable pay for work. That's ridiculous.
Apple is a multinational company. Have you ever stopped to consider how appalling it is to an Apple employee in India that there are employees in the US getting paid multiples of what an Indian is getting paid. That they could hire dozens of Indian employees for one American. Why are these Americans getting paid so much when the work could be done right here in India? Yet, Apple wastes money hiring overpaid American workers.
Of course, that Indian employee would be making the same mistake you are. He's basing a "reasonable wage" on the wages of his own country.
Can't tell if you're joking or serious... so on the off chance that you're serious:
The money the fed has issued to the banks is not actually in the system. When the Fed started issuing the money, they also started paying interest on deposits. So the the Fed "prints" money by electronically transferring it to the banks. The banks then deposits that money with the Fed and earn 1/4% (or so) interest.
It's basically a subsidy program for the banks, and has zero chance of creating hyperinflation.
People and countries that own US debt can not 'call in' their loans. The best they can do is sell them on the open market.. and if they do that the price will decline.. which means they'll have to take a loss.
And the US can't become Greece because we control our currency. If we had more debt than we could ever repay, we could simply print money to pay out debtors. They wouldn't like it, there would be inflation, and other unfavorable consequences, but we would not default and would not need a bailout. This is the option Greece doesn't have, and why they need a bailout.
Truth is, there is little the UN can threaten the US with. We have a veto on the security council, and provide 22% of the UNs budget -- which gives us a lot of power over the UNs agenda.
It's been hurt by HP's incompetent management, rather than any egregious faults of its own.
Palm had it for a whole year and a half before HP.. they released Palm Pre and Palm Pixi using it -- both phones DOA. The Palm Pre had 0.2% market share after nearly a year on the market (source).
HP didn't do it any favors.. but it's hard to say everyone would have loved WebOS if it wasn't for HP. No one wanted it from the very beginning.
I'm just not sure of the appropriateness of a prison term for this
Really? He impersonated a facebook employee who was on vacation. Hacked into 3 servers. Stole facebook source code. Deleted logs to cover his tracks. Then hid for a couple of months. Never said a word to facebook about it.
Then when the authorities show up 2 months later to arrest him he says he was just trying to help facebook improve security.
Why should he get a slap on the wrist for that? There's nothing good about what he did. and this story he has is completely made up after the fact.
nah.. you've got it all wrong. You show up at work one day with an alert from your IDS. You look at the server, and see that someone breached the server, downloaded the source code for your software, and tried to clean up their tracks by deleting logs. You report it to senior management. Management calls the FBI, and launches an investigation. Management tells you to go through the logs and the server, and find out anything you can. After two months of investigating, they finally find him, and FBI agents are sent to his house to arrest him. While he's being interrogated, he says he was just trying to help facebook improve their security.
He didn't go to facebook with what he found.. he impersonated a facebook employee, hacked into the servers, downloaded the source code, then tried to cover his tracks by deleting logs/etc and then hid.
Facebook found out on their own that he hacked in, and had to do an investgation and track him down.
Then when the FBI showed up at his door, he claimed he was trying to help facebook.
I just read the article, and it's even worse than that. This guy impersonated a Facebook employee who was on vacation, then hacked into the servers, downloaded the source code, and then deleted logs/etc to cover his tracks.
Facebook found out on their own that they were breached, and had to track this guy down.
Then when the FBI showed up at his door and arrested him, he claimed he was trying to HELP facebook.
This guy didn't go to facebook with a list of things for them to fix. He hacked into their servers, then tried to cover his tracks. Facebook discovered they were breached, had to do a full investigation, and track this guy down. He only claimed he was helping after the FBI showed up at his door.
Security reviews? You think that's where the money went. They had to track this guy down. He only claimed he was helping after the FBI showed up at his door.
He impersonated a Facebook employee who was on vacation, hacked into the servers, tried to cover his tracks by deleting evidence he was there, downloaded facebook source code, then hid.
Facebook discovered on their own that he hacked in, and they had to work with the FBI to find out who this guy was. They had to do a real investigation.
THEN when the FBI knocks on his door, he says: I'm an ethical hacker trying to HELP facebook.
Seriously.. this guy is nothing more than a common criminal.
Nothing was lost when I broke into your bedroom and went through all of your stuff either.. yet you seem to think that is a crime that should be punishable.
The only problem with my analogy is that I didn't take anything from your house. This guy took source code worth millions of dollars from the server.
Let me ask you this.. if Yahoo didn't pay the reward, what would he have done with that confidential info? Does he sell it to someone else?
Why does he have it at all? He can disclose the security problem to yahoo and they can verify it.. that does not require he steal something from the server.
The lock on your bedroom window is crap. I broke it last night, and then rifled through all of your stuff. Did the same to 2 of your neighbors also.. ya know, just to show it wasn't a fluke.
I hope you have better evidence than 'every year or two Dell would claim they might switch to AMD'... Dell also makes noise about switching to Linux. How is that working out? I assume you think they haven't switched because Microsoft must be bribing them.. right? No one is going to switch from an OS that's used by 95% of the market to the 2% alternative. but it might get them a little larger discount.
Walmart does the same thing: every year they go to their suppliers, and demand a price decrease or they will find another supplier or produce it themselves.
Please reread what I wrote.. since you didn't get it.
Google and Yahoo both use text ads. Google generates 2x more revenue from each search. The reason is that google collects more data and builds a better profile or searchers, so they are able to target their ads better.
text ads are text ads are text ads. If you take away the reason (tracking users) google performs better than yahoo search or bing, then they won't perform better.
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You're defining a non-exploitative wage, as a reasonable US wage. That is completely US-centric. You're taking some of the highest paid employees in the world, and saying this is the only reasonable pay for work. That's ridiculous.
Apple is a multinational company. Have you ever stopped to consider how appalling it is to an Apple employee in India that there are employees in the US getting paid multiples of what an Indian is getting paid. That they could hire dozens of Indian employees for one American. Why are these Americans getting paid so much when the work could be done right here in India? Yet, Apple wastes money hiring overpaid American workers.
Of course, that Indian employee would be making the same mistake you are. He's basing a "reasonable wage" on the wages of his own country.
You obviously don't know how a company works. The shareholders own the company. They elect a board to manage it. The board hires a CEO.
Steve Jobs was an employee of Apple. When he died, Apple hired a new employee to replace him.
No hedge fund is involved. Apple was not sold. The same people who owned it before own it now.
They are paid so terribly, that thousands of Chinese line up and wait for hours for a chance to work at Foxconn. And the job ad even says the starting wage is $261:
http://micgadget.com/21420/thousands-line-up-for-foxconns-jobs-in-zhengzhou/
That's because Jobs didn't suspended the dividend. It was ended by Gil Amelio:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19960214&id=sRYcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6HwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3973,6289068
The money the fed has issued to the banks is not actually in the system.
Should read "The money the fed has issued to the banks since the recession started is not actually in the system." ie: the increase in M1 from QE
The federal funds rate is 0.12%. This is the rate banks pay the Fed to barrow money. Here's a link to the list of rates from the Fed:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h15/current/
The Fed pays 0.25% interest on required balances and excess reserves. Here's a link to the rates from the Fed:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reqresbalances.htm
0.12% - 0.25% = 0.13%
That is the subsidy. And that is why the money does not make it into the system. It's literally free money for doing nothing.
No, I am not describing the bailout loans. Second you have some things really confused.
The federal funds rate is 0.12%. This is the rate banks pay the Fed to barrow money. Here's a link to the list of rates from the Fed:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h15/current/
The Fed pays 0.25% interest on required balances and excess reserves. Here's a link to the rates from the Fed:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reqresbalances.htm
0.12% - 0.25% = 0.13%
That is the subsidy. And that is why the money does not make it into the system. It's literally free money for doing nothing.
Can't tell if you're joking or serious... so on the off chance that you're serious:
The money the fed has issued to the banks is not actually in the system. When the Fed started issuing the money, they also started paying interest on deposits. So the the Fed "prints" money by electronically transferring it to the banks. The banks then deposits that money with the Fed and earn 1/4% (or so) interest.
It's basically a subsidy program for the banks, and has zero chance of creating hyperinflation.
People and countries that own US debt can not 'call in' their loans. The best they can do is sell them on the open market.. and if they do that the price will decline.. which means they'll have to take a loss.
And the US can't become Greece because we control our currency. If we had more debt than we could ever repay, we could simply print money to pay out debtors. They wouldn't like it, there would be inflation, and other unfavorable consequences, but we would not default and would not need a bailout. This is the option Greece doesn't have, and why they need a bailout.
Truth is, there is little the UN can threaten the US with. We have a veto on the security council, and provide 22% of the UNs budget -- which gives us a lot of power over the UNs agenda.
It's been hurt by HP's incompetent management, rather than any egregious faults of its own.
Palm had it for a whole year and a half before HP.. they released Palm Pre and Palm Pixi using it -- both phones DOA. The Palm Pre had 0.2% market share after nearly a year on the market (source).
HP didn't do it any favors.. but it's hard to say everyone would have loved WebOS if it wasn't for HP. No one wanted it from the very beginning.
while we re-develop NERVA. NERVA makes far more sense for moving around the solar system
Nerva? The roman emperor from 96-98? He's able to move things around space? Cool. Did not know that.
I'm just not sure of the appropriateness of a prison term for this
Really? He impersonated a facebook employee who was on vacation. Hacked into 3 servers. Stole facebook source code. Deleted logs to cover his tracks. Then hid for a couple of months. Never said a word to facebook about it.
Then when the authorities show up 2 months later to arrest him he says he was just trying to help facebook improve security.
Why should he get a slap on the wrist for that? There's nothing good about what he did. and this story he has is completely made up after the fact.
nah.. you've got it all wrong. You show up at work one day with an alert from your IDS. You look at the server, and see that someone breached the server, downloaded the source code for your software, and tried to clean up their tracks by deleting logs. You report it to senior management. Management calls the FBI, and launches an investigation. Management tells you to go through the logs and the server, and find out anything you can. After two months of investigating, they finally find him, and FBI agents are sent to his house to arrest him. While he's being interrogated, he says he was just trying to help facebook improve their security.
There.. now you have the analogy correct.
He didn't go to facebook with what he found.. he impersonated a facebook employee, hacked into the servers, downloaded the source code, then tried to cover his tracks by deleting logs/etc and then hid.
Facebook found out on their own that he hacked in, and had to do an investgation and track him down.
Then when the FBI showed up at his door, he claimed he was trying to help facebook.
Tracking him down would easily cost $200k
I just read the article, and it's even worse than that. This guy impersonated a Facebook employee who was on vacation, then hacked into the servers, downloaded the source code, and then deleted logs/etc to cover his tracks.
Facebook found out on their own that they were breached, and had to track this guy down.
Then when the FBI showed up at his door and arrested him, he claimed he was trying to HELP facebook.
This guy didn't go to facebook with a list of things for them to fix. He hacked into their servers, then tried to cover his tracks. Facebook discovered they were breached, had to do a full investigation, and track this guy down. He only claimed he was helping after the FBI showed up at his door.
Security reviews? You think that's where the money went. They had to track this guy down. He only claimed he was helping after the FBI showed up at his door.
Not just the review..
He impersonated a Facebook employee who was on vacation, hacked into the servers, tried to cover his tracks by deleting evidence he was there, downloaded facebook source code, then hid.
Facebook discovered on their own that he hacked in, and they had to work with the FBI to find out who this guy was. They had to do a real investigation.
THEN when the FBI knocks on his door, he says: I'm an ethical hacker trying to HELP facebook.
Seriously.. this guy is nothing more than a common criminal.
Nothing was lost when I broke into your bedroom and went through all of your stuff either.. yet you seem to think that is a crime that should be punishable.
The only problem with my analogy is that I didn't take anything from your house. This guy took source code worth millions of dollars from the server.
Let me ask you this.. if Yahoo didn't pay the reward, what would he have done with that confidential info? Does he sell it to someone else?
Why does he have it at all? He can disclose the security problem to yahoo and they can verify it.. that does not require he steal something from the server.
The lock on your bedroom window is crap. I broke it last night, and then rifled through all of your stuff. Did the same to 2 of your neighbors also.. ya know, just to show it wasn't a fluke.
Your welcome.
I would like my reward now.
Not only that, but it almost sounds like bribery. He hacks into Yahoo, downloads confidential data, then "asks" them for a reward?
Why did he need to download facebook source code after he found the vulnerability? Why did he need to breach the server at all? Much less 3 servers?!
I hope you have better evidence than 'every year or two Dell would claim they might switch to AMD'... Dell also makes noise about switching to Linux. How is that working out? I assume you think they haven't switched because Microsoft must be bribing them.. right? No one is going to switch from an OS that's used by 95% of the market to the 2% alternative. but it might get them a little larger discount.
Walmart does the same thing: every year they go to their suppliers, and demand a price decrease or they will find another supplier or produce it themselves.
It works.
it usually takes SQL Server two or three seconds to respond
then you're incompetent. stackoverflow uses SQL Server 2008, and serves 12-14 million pages a day.
Please reread what I wrote.. since you didn't get it.
Google and Yahoo both use text ads. Google generates 2x more revenue from each search. The reason is that google collects more data and builds a better profile or searchers, so they are able to target their ads better.
text ads are text ads are text ads. If you take away the reason (tracking users) google performs better than yahoo search or bing, then they won't perform better.