Agreed, but she'd damned well better have at least one email in her possession showing that she (or one of her subordinates) had previously tried to warn the company to update their version of Struts...
(...and if she does, then the devs will be in the hot seat for ignoring that one.)
To be fair, Equifax is a credit reporting bureau, and not FireEye, Tripwire, Qualys, F-Secure, PC-Matic (for consumers), etc. (though you are correct in that security is an incredibly high priority for a credit reporting bureau, or at least one would think so... but they got popped via a way outdated version of Struts, FFS.)
A company like Qualys or Tripwire getting popped would spell certain doom for that company.
Equifax on the other hand will likely survive this (as long as nothing else happens in the next 2-3 years, anyway).
I agree partly (I came out of Electrical Engineering), but it certainly helps if one's resume shows increasing experience in the field before you, say, become a C-level executive over that field in your company, yanno?
It's doubly odd when one finds that her history on linkedin is now hidden/blocked, no?
I'm guessing not only land costs, but contractor overruns (both historical and predicted), regulatory obstacles, etc....and that's not even mentioning the whole seismic thing that the region is kind of famous for.
Wages are still commensurate to skill and experience, and demand will only go so high for the job. Janitorial work, while needed and necessary, is not a job that requires a lot of knowledge, expertise, and/or skill. Literally anybody with a modern 6th-grade level of education can be a janitor, and do so with less than a day's worth of training.
Mind, this is not an excuse to treat a janitor like some sort of subhuman, but it doesn't require you to pay him the same as you would pay a developer, sysadmin, etc. Now if you own the company and want to pay the janitors the same wage as you pay your CFO, then go for it. Just don't expect others to do so.
Some have, others, maybe. While Microsoft is not in Silly Valley, they do reside in near-equally-liberal SeaTac... yet technically, their corporate headquarters is in Delaware (for tax purposes). Come to think of it, so is Intel, Google, Apple... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
(note, info is a bit old, but I believe still accurate).
Same story here, really. At a previous employer, I fed and cared for a metric ton of ldoms* running on Sparc T-3 iron, as well as other (slightly older) Sparc pizza boxes running a ton of zones. The big reason they existed was to test the product on the Solaris/Sparc platform under various incarnations (from Solaris 7 to latest/greatest, which was IIRC 11.x at the time)... and that was about it.
Anything they actually cared about (business-wise) sat on Linux and/or Windows boxen.
* for those who were unaware, apparently Oracle decided they wanted to compete with VMWare at one point in time, so they created something called Logical Domains (ldoms). Think of everything you ever thought to be frustrating about vSphere, make it 10x worse (especially virtual networking), then build it with a CLI-only interface. Let's just say that IBM's version of it ( lpars ) were 100x more enjoyable to build/maintain.
This, right here. If its open source, there's nothing to try and steal.
I am curious, though - what's to stop companies from telling China to piss off, and instead "activate" in India, Vietnam, Taiwan ("...because fuck you Beijing, that's why"), etc... It's not like China has a monopoly on cheap labor (or even on untapped markets...)
The salary of a given trade job depends too much on specialty, experience/credentials, and location for that statement to be true, since it's the local labor supply and demand which determines what a tradie gets paid. An apprentice electrician can eke out maybe $15/hr in some areas, but a master electrician with a Contractor's license can easily rake in $70/hr in other areas (which is well over a six-figure salary).
Here's the trick for home buying, though, and it's not a new one: buy small on a small salary, or expect a far longer commute time to get that 3-bdrm/2ba custom-built domicile. It also helps to ditch all other unnecessary debt as much as possible before you take on that mortgage payment. This means not going to Disney World, buying a flashy new vehicle, or blowing cash on {insert vices or hobbies here}.
Fortunately, the county I live in (like many throughout the US) lays in exemptions for the elderly, so unless they ditch that, I should do fine by the time I get there. If not, I can sell it off (via subdivision) in 1-acre chunks or so and not only profit, but reduce the tax burden along the way.
The second requires being willing to set your life aside to fight a corporation.
Actually, thanks to greed-driven lawyers who love the phrase "class action", you can set them after the offending corporation.
You won't make jack (at most a refund of the purchase price), but usually in such cases you caveat emptor , do a bit of research next time, and go buy something that doesn't suck.
I mean, unless you laid out over $7.5k for the damned thing (above small-claims court costs in most US states), you consider it a hard lesson, but be asshole enough to sic the class-action legal crowd after it. At most you just have to give a deposition and maybe testify to the assholery of (in this case) Sonos.
These speakers require software updates and an internet connection to run? Another show stopper.
That one item alone should be sufficient to kill the deal, all by itself. Very few physical things should require an internet connection to operate... and they had damned well better be things like routers and sat/DSL/Cable modems (and maybe the DVR, but only maybe).
Do I need an Internet connection to run your television? Yeah no, fuck you, I refuse to buy it. There's always TV makers out there who don't require that - and failing such, my house is small enough to press a large-enough desktop monitor into service.
Blackholing http-based DDoS packets would violate your definition of net neutrality, so maybe you shouldn't try to be so absolutist? Sometimes throttling *types* of packets is a good thing (now in TFA's case, that's up for debate.)
Also, NN is based on not discriminating based on source, as opposed to based on type. For instance, Coho.net (a local Pacific NW Fixed-wireless ISP) specifically filters out and blocks as much BitTorrent traffic as it can detect, and says as much in their policy. They've done this for years now, through various FCC Net Neutrality pronouncements and rulesets, and have yet to see any issues with the FCC over it.
In parts of the US West Coast, housing speculation has skyrocketed, hard. For instance, in Portland, OR and surrounding areas, a house that you couldn't get rid of for $200k during the housing bust of 2007-2010 (or so) will sell out in less than 48 hours now for $550k.
Even way out in the sticks where I live (a 75 to 90-minute commute from downtown Portland), I purchased a hidden gem of sorts (a 2 bdrm cabin on 6 acres) in an unincorporated area of Columbia County for $250k back in late 2015. Nowadays I routinely get pestered by real estate vultures wanting me to sell it for $350-$400k (the little house is very nice, but it's mostly for the land, which has 800' of riverfront, and has wilderness areas next door on two sides of the property). In a year, I bet they'll be sniffing around for $500-600k or so if the bubble holds up. Funny thing though, I bought the place to retire in, so, well, screw 'em. I'm staying put.
It's a shortage of employers willing to pay the wage required to properly compensate people for doing the work. Pay a proper wage and this "labor shortage" will disappear immediately.
Well, sort of. If the employee overhead (wages, taxes, etc) plus other costs add up to more than they can reasonably sell the product (house/building/etc) for, then either of the following happens: 1) corners are cut 2) the project is scaled back in size, scope, or features 3) the price skyrockets to match costs+previously promised returns on investment 4) the project is abandoned (this happens a lot more than you think, especially on larger construction gigs.)
Now, if someone coughs up a robot that can do the job of 8-10 men (assuming an 8-10-hr workday), and it amortizes at a lower cost per day/project/etc than hiring those 8-10 men would cost, (and even better, it's amortized so the costs are predictable and somewhat a known constant), then guess who gets told to not come to work the next day?
This is similar to the argument McDonalds is making by replacing $15/hr-demanding burger flippers with machines.
The TL;DR is this: Look at all sides of the equation, and don't just make a lame argument about how wage hikes will somehow miraculously solve all the labor problems being faced in the construction industry.
Corporations should not have opinions on social matters.
Depends. GoDaddy is legally within its rights to refuse or continue (further) service. If the site calls for and supports continued violence, GoDaddy is (at least morally) obligated to report such calls to the relevant authorities and to discontinue service. You (or whoever you intended) could sue all you wanted, but it would go approximately nowhere, and it would further invite scrutiny and monitoring from the FBI (if you're in the US), or similar.
The only (slight) worry I have over this is that such sites will start burrowing into the Dark Web, where the general public cannot see and ridicule them for what they are. I can predict without looking that many of these sites are already there. Maybe that's a good thing - keep the bastards in the dark where they belong. But then, being able to easily point to something and show others "you can see what these chuckleheads actually believe right here (link)" is a good educational tool against folks who want to spread misinformation.
0.25 sec each way? I get the same lag off my Sat. Internet connection here on Earth.
Not quite conducive to playing a FPS, but just fine for almost everything else (though Webex is a big laggy, it actually still works over a Sat. modem.)
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...but they should at least show evidence of patching test/staging systems, no?
Either way, she's in real deep Treble right about now...
(...I kid! I kid!)
Agreed, but she'd damned well better have at least one email in her possession showing that she (or one of her subordinates) had previously tried to warn the company to update their version of Struts...
(...and if she does, then the devs will be in the hot seat for ignoring that one.)
To be fair, Equifax is a credit reporting bureau, and not FireEye, Tripwire, Qualys, F-Secure, PC-Matic (for consumers), etc. (though you are correct in that security is an incredibly high priority for a credit reporting bureau, or at least one would think so... but they got popped via a way outdated version of Struts, FFS.)
A company like Qualys or Tripwire getting popped would spell certain doom for that company.
Equifax on the other hand will likely survive this (as long as nothing else happens in the next 2-3 years, anyway).
I agree partly (I came out of Electrical Engineering), but it certainly helps if one's resume shows increasing experience in the field before you, say, become a C-level executive over that field in your company, yanno?
It's doubly odd when one finds that her history on linkedin is now hidden/blocked, no?
I'm guessing not only land costs, but contractor overruns (both historical and predicted), regulatory obstacles, etc. ...and that's not even mentioning the whole seismic thing that the region is kind of famous for.
Wages are still commensurate to skill and experience, and demand will only go so high for the job. Janitorial work, while needed and necessary, is not a job that requires a lot of knowledge, expertise, and/or skill. Literally anybody with a modern 6th-grade level of education can be a janitor, and do so with less than a day's worth of training.
Mind, this is not an excuse to treat a janitor like some sort of subhuman, but it doesn't require you to pay him the same as you would pay a developer, sysadmin, etc. Now if you own the company and want to pay the janitors the same wage as you pay your CFO, then go for it. Just don't expect others to do so.
...and quickly backfire all the way to Pune, Hyderabad, Mumbai...
Note that most of those manager types tend to not last very long (and if they run the company, neither does their company.)
Some have, others, maybe. While Microsoft is not in Silly Valley, they do reside in near-equally-liberal SeaTac... yet technically, their corporate headquarters is in Delaware (for tax purposes). Come to think of it, so is Intel, Google, Apple... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
(note, info is a bit old, but I believe still accurate).
They moved to BSD a long long time ago.
According to Mindcraft BSD is supposed to be dead, you prole.
Same story here, really. At a previous employer, I fed and cared for a metric ton of ldoms* running on Sparc T-3 iron, as well as other (slightly older) Sparc pizza boxes running a ton of zones. The big reason they existed was to test the product on the Solaris/Sparc platform under various incarnations (from Solaris 7 to latest/greatest, which was IIRC 11.x at the time)... and that was about it.
Anything they actually cared about (business-wise) sat on Linux and/or Windows boxen.
* for those who were unaware, apparently Oracle decided they wanted to compete with VMWare at one point in time, so they created something called Logical Domains (ldoms). Think of everything you ever thought to be frustrating about vSphere, make it 10x worse (especially virtual networking), then build it with a CLI-only interface. Let's just say that IBM's version of it ( lpars ) were 100x more enjoyable to build/maintain.
...and yet the odds of kids (under 25) allowing them to do jut that? Almost perfect. After all, what use do they have for privacy?
Hate to say it, but Verizon's already done the math (no joke intended), and they see it as potentially profitable, IMHO precisely because of this.
This, right here. If its open source, there's nothing to try and steal.
I am curious, though - what's to stop companies from telling China to piss off, and instead "activate" in India, Vietnam, Taiwan ("...because fuck you Beijing, that's why"), etc... It's not like China has a monopoly on cheap labor (or even on untapped markets...)
With all the shitty remakes of films recently, I can't believe they haven't done one for Logans Run.
Having seen how studios treat awesome classics of late when they try to crucif^M remake them?
You can shut your damn mouth now and not give the studios any more ideas. :/
Regards,
Someone who has also had more than quite enough of the whole "gritty reboot" treatment.
Trade jobs basically top out at 50-60k a year
The salary of a given trade job depends too much on specialty, experience/credentials, and location for that statement to be true, since it's the local labor supply and demand which determines what a tradie gets paid. An apprentice electrician can eke out maybe $15/hr in some areas, but a master electrician with a Contractor's license can easily rake in $70/hr in other areas (which is well over a six-figure salary).
Here's the trick for home buying, though, and it's not a new one: buy small on a small salary, or expect a far longer commute time to get that 3-bdrm/2ba custom-built domicile. It also helps to ditch all other unnecessary debt as much as possible before you take on that mortgage payment. This means not going to Disney World, buying a flashy new vehicle, or blowing cash on {insert vices or hobbies here}.
Fortunately, the county I live in (like many throughout the US) lays in exemptions for the elderly, so unless they ditch that, I should do fine by the time I get there. If not, I can sell it off (via subdivision) in 1-acre chunks or so and not only profit, but reduce the tax burden along the way.
The second requires being willing to set your life aside to fight a corporation.
Actually, thanks to greed-driven lawyers who love the phrase "class action", you can set them after the offending corporation.
You won't make jack (at most a refund of the purchase price), but usually in such cases you caveat emptor , do a bit of research next time, and go buy something that doesn't suck.
I mean, unless you laid out over $7.5k for the damned thing (above small-claims court costs in most US states), you consider it a hard lesson, but be asshole enough to sic the class-action legal crowd after it. At most you just have to give a deposition and maybe testify to the assholery of (in this case) Sonos.
These speakers require software updates and an internet connection to run? Another show stopper.
That one item alone should be sufficient to kill the deal, all by itself. Very few physical things should require an internet connection to operate... and they had damned well better be things like routers and sat/DSL/Cable modems (and maybe the DVR, but only maybe).
Do I need an Internet connection to run your television? Yeah no, fuck you, I refuse to buy it. There's always TV makers out there who don't require that - and failing such, my house is small enough to press a large-enough desktop monitor into service.
Blackholing http-based DDoS packets would violate your definition of net neutrality, so maybe you shouldn't try to be so absolutist? Sometimes throttling *types* of packets is a good thing (now in TFA's case, that's up for debate.)
Also, NN is based on not discriminating based on source, as opposed to based on type. For instance, Coho.net (a local Pacific NW Fixed-wireless ISP) specifically filters out and blocks as much BitTorrent traffic as it can detect, and says as much in their policy. They've done this for years now, through various FCC Net Neutrality pronouncements and rulesets, and have yet to see any issues with the FCC over it.
Surprisingly, not really. Put this way: they're throttling "video", not "Netflix".
Now if they pushed their own (or a paying partner's) video service and throttled everyone else's, then you'd see a violation of net neutrality.
It's not just Canada...
In parts of the US West Coast, housing speculation has skyrocketed, hard. For instance, in Portland, OR and surrounding areas, a house that you couldn't get rid of for $200k during the housing bust of 2007-2010 (or so) will sell out in less than 48 hours now for $550k.
Even way out in the sticks where I live (a 75 to 90-minute commute from downtown Portland), I purchased a hidden gem of sorts (a 2 bdrm cabin on 6 acres) in an unincorporated area of Columbia County for $250k back in late 2015. Nowadays I routinely get pestered by real estate vultures wanting me to sell it for $350-$400k (the little house is very nice, but it's mostly for the land, which has 800' of riverfront, and has wilderness areas next door on two sides of the property). In a year, I bet they'll be sniffing around for $500-600k or so if the bubble holds up. Funny thing though, I bought the place to retire in, so, well, screw 'em. I'm staying put.
It's a shortage of employers willing to pay the wage required to properly compensate people for doing the work. Pay a proper wage and this "labor shortage" will disappear immediately.
Well, sort of. If the employee overhead (wages, taxes, etc) plus other costs add up to more than they can reasonably sell the product (house/building/etc) for, then either of the following happens:
1) corners are cut
2) the project is scaled back in size, scope, or features
3) the price skyrockets to match costs+previously promised returns on investment
4) the project is abandoned (this happens a lot more than you think, especially on larger construction gigs.)
Now, if someone coughs up a robot that can do the job of 8-10 men (assuming an 8-10-hr workday), and it amortizes at a lower cost per day/project/etc than hiring those 8-10 men would cost, (and even better, it's amortized so the costs are predictable and somewhat a known constant), then guess who gets told to not come to work the next day?
This is similar to the argument McDonalds is making by replacing $15/hr-demanding burger flippers with machines.
The TL;DR is this: Look at all sides of the equation, and don't just make a lame argument about how wage hikes will somehow miraculously solve all the labor problems being faced in the construction industry.
Corporations should not have opinions on social matters.
Depends. GoDaddy is legally within its rights to refuse or continue (further) service. If the site calls for and supports continued violence, GoDaddy is (at least morally) obligated to report such calls to the relevant authorities and to discontinue service. You (or whoever you intended) could sue all you wanted, but it would go approximately nowhere, and it would further invite scrutiny and monitoring from the FBI (if you're in the US), or similar.
The only (slight) worry I have over this is that such sites will start burrowing into the Dark Web, where the general public cannot see and ridicule them for what they are. I can predict without looking that many of these sites are already there. Maybe that's a good thing - keep the bastards in the dark where they belong. But then, being able to easily point to something and show others "you can see what these chuckleheads actually believe right here (link)" is a good educational tool against folks who want to spread misinformation.
0.25 sec each way? I get the same lag off my Sat. Internet connection here on Earth.
Not quite conducive to playing a FPS, but just fine for almost everything else (though Webex is a big laggy, it actually still works over a Sat. modem.)