My first thought is that perhaps employers are figuring out that with many job boards largely full of scammy recruiters (No, I didn't check the board that's the subject of the article), and don't want to play in that kind of sandbox anymore.
No, there's no law that says they can't say anything they want. It's just that if it's bad, and it gets back to you, you could (in theory) sue them for defamation or some such nonsense. So most corps legal departments have issued a blanket 'just confirm they worked here, and NOTHING ELSE' order.
Quitting without giving notice is rude. That's all, just rude.
If your employer has been reasonable and supported you with things you want (perhaps flexibility in hours, or training), then two weeks notice is only the polite thing to do.
If they've been extorting god-awful amounts of overtime from you, perhaps with the ever-present threat of being let go for no reason at all, then a little rudeness isn't out of place.
I liked it better when I had to move a jumper before I could flash the BIOS in a machine. That was really quite secure against post-shipment BIOS modification.
Of course, I also can't think of the last time I flashed the BIOS in any of my systems, which makes me wonder why the hell we ever got away from ROMs in the first place...
And the reason I'd give is 'I don't think I can trust you'. Because that's what this comes down to - you have NO idea who these people are, really, and from what I've seen of school related software (I've got two kids in one district, and my wife teaches in another), most places selling to schools hire the people who underbid the lowest bidder.
Proper summary: The SLP buyout of Dell has been found to be underpriced, and SLP will have to make restitution to those who opposed it. TRP doesn't get any of that money because they screwed up and didn't register as opposed to the buyout.
I've no idea if it's reasonable that SLP has to pay out to those who opposed the buyout. It's perfectly reasonable that TRP gets nada, since they screwed up their end of things.
But given all the other things I wanted (refresh rate, price, size, etc) I ended up with a Samsung unit. I tried using the app features - as a whole are a remarkably poor experience. The network connection takes about two minutes to become active after powering on the TV, so if you want to use, say, the Netflix app, it's WAY faster to fire up the XBox 360 and use it there.
The ONLY smart-ish feature I use on the thing at this point is the USB connection - it turns out that the XBox 360 won't read from an NTFS filesystem (really, M$?), but the TV will, so for > 4GB video files, the TV is the only thing (that's already hooked up) that will do the job.
I need to experiment and see if the TV will work normally if I take away it's network connection - I'd just as soon NOT have it doing stuff on the network unnecessarily.
Volatile currencies are only good for people who trade currency. People who are trying to get things done want a nice stable currency so they don't have to play day-trader on the side while running their business.
Name one politician that DOESN'T think that the law is for other people. I've not done the research, but I'm willing to bet real money that there's no such thing anywhere in the US Federal government.
And while I'm sure someone would say "well, it's their own fault for using older tools", bear in mind that not all development projects are targeted at current hardware and some development tools are proprietary to the companies who own said hardware, leaving no alternatives.
You don't even need funny hardware to get into this realm - if you've got regulatory hassles, changing tools may be an EXTREMELY expensive proposition (try several months of re-testing expensive). There's a LOT of us out here who can't change tools on a whim - even if the tools are free, the work in documentation alone might consume man-months of time.
Because renting you stuff and getting a steady revenue stream is a WAY better business model than trying to get you to buy a new version every few years.
The truth is that selling the OS & Office the way they have been is a sucky way to make money - you have to put out a bunch of cash making the new version, then hope you can con enough suckers into buying it to make your money back at the end. Much better to sell monthly subscriptions to Office 365 through your controlled App store. Plus, you can charge a fee to let other people sell through your app store.
I'm waiting for the day that they try to block non-app store installs.
That, and the fact that I can buy cheap peripherals (scanners, printers, etc) in any store and there's a 90% or better chance that it'll work when I plug it into a Windows box. Depending on the peripheral, that rate is WAY lower on Linux.
The 'pool of money' thing is a nasty bit of business anyway - it's horribly unfair to authors for Amazon to be deciding how much the lot of them will get to split, then effectively make them fight over it.
This scam would only hurt Amazon (and thus give them an incentive to fix it fast) if it weren't for the pool of money concept. As it is, they don't have to do anything until enough real authors bail out that there's nothing good to read.
"The tech companies who benefit from the DMCA today were not the intended protectorate when it was signed into law two decades ago."
In other words "The god-awful changes we paid congress for two decades ago didn't work out the way we thought. Do something different!"
I won't argue that there are problem with Copyright law and the DMCA, but this quote tells us everything we need to know about the people signing the petition.
Why is it Pinboard should be doing any agreement at all with IFTTT? It's nice that they have money now, but they want him to do work and make promises while they sit on their asses. They have apparently told the users that the Pinboard interface is going down if Pinboard doesn't do something, but they've given Pinboard NO reason to do anything but mock them.
Sorry, if they were asking Pinboard for a promise to give notice before changing Pinboard's API? Perhaps that might be reasonable for Pinbaord to consider. Asking Pinboard to implement IFTTT's API for free? Not reasonable.
That they haven't had a visit from the FDA. Even with all their weasel-words, I don't see how they can get out of being considered a medical device by the FDA.
Considering the amount of crap my company goes through to comply with the relevant regs, I get really annoyed by people flaunting them and getting away with it.
Yes, FTDI does have a problem with the crap clones, but inserting things into people's data streams is NOT, in any sense, a proper response. It's slightly less insane than BRICKING people's hardware (their previous solution), so I suppose it's a step up, but it's still completely nuts.
Refusing to work with non-FTDI hardware would be perfectly reasonable. Log messages if you have access to system logging facilities (I'm pretty sure drivers can log to SYSTEM log in Windows).
But mess with people's data? That's insanity. You NEVER mess with people's data. ESPECIALLY when the data belongs to someone who probably has absolutely no idea what the hell is going on.
They are once again breaking things that don't belong to them. With any luck this will backfire on them just as badly as last time. I'm hopeful that this time Microsoft will get in on the act and beat them soundly around the ears so that they stop this shit.
Given that they've chosen to work with a vendor who has been known to transmit malware via windows update before (the bricking incident), is MS in any way liable at this point for not properly controlling their partner's access to Windows Update?
I hope no one gets hurt, but I actually hope someone big loses money and starts filing lawsuits over this. I'd love to see where they manage to pin the bill for damages.
Oh, and to anyone who doesn't think this kind of thing can be damaging: I know of at least one medical device (a thermal-management device that cools or heats the patient) which has a 'USB' output that consists of an embedded FTDI chip and a USB B port on the device.
Fortunately that data stream isn't generally used for making clinical decisions - it's mostly used by researchers trying to collect data. But one can imagine the havoc this kind of move is going to have on those data sets. Hopefully that device company didn't get any fake FTDIs in their supply chain.
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My first thought is that perhaps employers are figuring out that with many job boards largely full of scammy recruiters (No, I didn't check the board that's the subject of the article), and don't want to play in that kind of sandbox anymore.
No, there's no law that says they can't say anything they want. It's just that if it's bad, and it gets back to you, you could (in theory) sue them for defamation or some such nonsense. So most corps legal departments have issued a blanket 'just confirm they worked here, and NOTHING ELSE' order.
Quitting without giving notice is rude. That's all, just rude.
If your employer has been reasonable and supported you with things you want (perhaps flexibility in hours, or training), then two weeks notice is only the polite thing to do.
If they've been extorting god-awful amounts of overtime from you, perhaps with the ever-present threat of being let go for no reason at all, then a little rudeness isn't out of place.
I liked it better when I had to move a jumper before I could flash the BIOS in a machine. That was really quite secure against post-shipment BIOS modification.
Of course, I also can't think of the last time I flashed the BIOS in any of my systems, which makes me wonder why the hell we ever got away from ROMs in the first place...
And the reason I'd give is 'I don't think I can trust you'. Because that's what this comes down to - you have NO idea who these people are, really, and from what I've seen of school related software (I've got two kids in one district, and my wife teaches in another), most places selling to schools hire the people who underbid the lowest bidder.
Proper summary:
The SLP buyout of Dell has been found to be underpriced, and SLP will have to make restitution to those who opposed it.
TRP doesn't get any of that money because they screwed up and didn't register as opposed to the buyout.
I've no idea if it's reasonable that SLP has to pay out to those who opposed the buyout.
It's perfectly reasonable that TRP gets nada, since they screwed up their end of things.
But given all the other things I wanted (refresh rate, price, size, etc) I ended up with a Samsung unit.
I tried using the app features - as a whole are a remarkably poor experience. The network connection takes about two minutes to become active after powering on the TV, so if you want to use, say, the Netflix app, it's WAY faster to fire up the XBox 360 and use it there.
The ONLY smart-ish feature I use on the thing at this point is the USB connection - it turns out that the XBox 360 won't read from an NTFS filesystem (really, M$?), but the TV will, so for > 4GB video files, the TV is the only thing (that's already hooked up) that will do the job.
I need to experiment and see if the TV will work normally if I take away it's network connection - I'd just as soon NOT have it doing stuff on the network unnecessarily.
It's just that it's an experimental proof instead of a purely mathematical one.
And it's hardly the first time this has been done - the 4 color math problem was proved by computation back in 1976.
Volatile currencies are only good for people who trade currency. People who are trying to get things done want a nice stable currency so they don't have to play day-trader on the side while running their business.
Name one politician that DOESN'T think that the law is for other people. I've not done the research, but I'm willing to bet real money that there's no such thing anywhere in the US Federal government.
Nicely done guys. Sourceforge had definitely gone down the toilet in my eyes. We'll see how it pans out going forward, but this can't hurt.
And while I'm sure someone would say "well, it's their own fault for using older tools", bear in mind that not all development projects are targeted at current hardware and some development tools are proprietary to the companies who own said hardware, leaving no alternatives.
You don't even need funny hardware to get into this realm - if you've got regulatory hassles, changing tools may be an EXTREMELY expensive proposition (try several months of re-testing expensive). There's a LOT of us out here who can't change tools on a whim - even if the tools are free, the work in documentation alone might consume man-months of time.
I REALLY through Taco Bell was going to be the first to this particular party...
Because renting you stuff and getting a steady revenue stream is a WAY better business model than trying to get you to buy a new version every few years.
The truth is that selling the OS & Office the way they have been is a sucky way to make money - you have to put out a bunch of cash making the new version, then hope you can con enough suckers into buying it to make your money back at the end. Much better to sell monthly subscriptions to Office 365 through your controlled App store. Plus, you can charge a fee to let other people sell through your app store.
I'm waiting for the day that they try to block non-app store installs.
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That, and the fact that I can buy cheap peripherals (scanners, printers, etc) in any store and there's a 90% or better chance that it'll work when I plug it into a Windows box. Depending on the peripheral, that rate is WAY lower on Linux.
The 'pool of money' thing is a nasty bit of business anyway - it's horribly unfair to authors for Amazon to be deciding how much the lot of them will get to split, then effectively make them fight over it.
This scam would only hurt Amazon (and thus give them an incentive to fix it fast) if it weren't for the pool of money concept. As it is, they don't have to do anything until enough real authors bail out that there's nothing good to read.
"The tech companies who benefit from the DMCA today were not the intended protectorate when it was signed into law two decades ago."
In other words "The god-awful changes we paid congress for two decades ago didn't work out the way we thought. Do something different!"
I won't argue that there are problem with Copyright law and the DMCA, but this quote tells us everything we need to know about the people signing the petition.
giving all those idiots who say 'I thought it was a gun' extra excuses.
Why is it Pinboard should be doing any agreement at all with IFTTT? It's nice that they have money now, but they want him to do work and make promises while they sit on their asses. They have apparently told the users that the Pinboard interface is going down if Pinboard doesn't do something, but they've given Pinboard NO reason to do anything but mock them.
Sorry, if they were asking Pinboard for a promise to give notice before changing Pinboard's API? Perhaps that might be reasonable for Pinbaord to consider. Asking Pinboard to implement IFTTT's API for free? Not reasonable.
I could get behind this! We should be able to walk up and stick rubber noses on politicans, too - they are pretty much all bozos, after all!
to steal someone's design, that has to be the STUPIDEST way to do it possible.
It's like a Bruce Schneier Movie Plot Security Thread contest. Only stupider.
That they haven't had a visit from the FDA. Even with all their weasel-words, I don't see how they can get out of being considered a medical device by the FDA.
Considering the amount of crap my company goes through to comply with the relevant regs, I get really annoyed by people flaunting them and getting away with it.
Till the first bit of malvertising that uses this as it's infection vector? Is someone taking bets?
What FTDI is doing is insane.
Yes, FTDI does have a problem with the crap clones, but inserting things into people's data streams is NOT, in any sense, a proper response. It's slightly less insane than BRICKING people's hardware (their previous solution), so I suppose it's a step up, but it's still completely nuts.
Refusing to work with non-FTDI hardware would be perfectly reasonable. Log messages if you have access to system logging facilities (I'm pretty sure drivers can log to SYSTEM log in Windows).
But mess with people's data? That's insanity. You NEVER mess with people's data. ESPECIALLY when the data belongs to someone who probably has absolutely no idea what the hell is going on.
They are once again breaking things that don't belong to them. With any luck this will backfire on them just as badly as last time. I'm hopeful that this time Microsoft will get in on the act and beat them soundly around the ears so that they stop this shit.
Given that they've chosen to work with a vendor who has been known to transmit malware via windows update before (the bricking incident), is MS in any way liable at this point for not properly controlling their partner's access to Windows Update?
I hope no one gets hurt, but I actually hope someone big loses money and starts filing lawsuits over this. I'd love to see where they manage to pin the bill for damages.
Oh, and to anyone who doesn't think this kind of thing can be damaging: I know of at least one medical device (a thermal-management device that cools or heats the patient) which has a 'USB' output that consists of an embedded FTDI chip and a USB B port on the device.
Fortunately that data stream isn't generally used for making clinical decisions - it's mostly used by researchers trying to collect data. But one can imagine the havoc this kind of move is going to have on those data sets. Hopefully that device company didn't get any fake FTDIs in their supply chain.