The way checkpoints have been enforced just about everywhere I've gone, it's not the volume of the liquid contained, but the potential volume of the container...
If you have a 1 gallon container with 1oz of liquid remaining, they'll still seize it.
So lets see... They thing you're a bad guy with something nefarious in encrypted cloud storage..
They ask for the password, you give the duress password. They ask again for the password, since that one didn't return valid data.. They beat you for the password until you either give the real password, which you can't any more, or you're dead.
Official cause of death? You tripped.
In the end, the data is wiped, and you're a bloody pulp on the interrogation room floor. Regardless, the problem has been mitigated, and you saved them the trouble of destroying your nefarious something.
Was whatever you had worth hiding? Probably not. Not that I want agencies going through my personal stuff, but when the choice is being beaten down, and possibly killed, that duress password was the worst one to give up first.
... stop selling a product because it was dangerous
You say that as if he were selling fireworks, caustic cleaning supplies, or surplus hand grenades.
He complied, labeling the product as not for children, and not for ingestion. The same kind of warnings that show up on fireworks *and* caustic cleaning supplies. I don't believe hand grenades have the same warning on them.
Next time you hear about a child getting hurt with a firework, household cleaning supplies, or falling off a bicycle, be sure to remind them to sue the CEO for selling dangerous items. Don't forget to sue the CEO of every company along the entire distribution chain too.
I happen to be allergic to something that someone wears or uses at work. Last week, I had to spend some time outside, because they walked by my office, and I started sneezing constantly.
I have no idea who it is, or what it is. Since it doesn't last all day, I assume it's someone reapplying their stink.
I mentioned it in conversation with one of the executive's assistants. Well, because I was sitting outside sounding like I had a nasty cold that cleared up in about 15 minutes. They told me all I had to do was complain and they'd reinforce the policy against perfumes. I told them I won't complain, and would address it with the person directly if I ever find who it is.
I was already able to definitely track one stink. It was room air freshener that someone used. I had suspicions. It was confirmed when I walked back into my office and started sneezing just a couple minutes after they had sprayed it. They still use it, but sparingly, and that doesn't make me sneeze. Problem solved. No official paperwork, and no hard feelings.:)
I've stopped listening to radio stations specifically for that reason. One had an ad that they played about every 15 minutes, with an ambulance siren. So during the evening commute, I could hear it about 8 times.
I don't know if they still play that ad. It's better that I listen to something else (or nothing at all), than rescan the environment for an emergency vehicle that isn't there.
FUNNY, MANY CREDIT REPORTS ARE WRITTEN IN ALL CAPS. POT. KETTLE.
THE FOURTH AGAINST THE WALL AFTER THE REVOLUTION WILL BE THE CREDIT BUREAU EXECUTIVES. THE FIRST THREE WILL BE MARKETING EXECUTIVES FROM SIRIUS CYBERNETICS CORPORATION, LAWYERS AND POLITICIANS.
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That would be an act of war. At least it could be perceived as such by the US.
The UN already has four major offices. Geneva, Nairobi, New York, and Vienna. I believe all have facilities sufficient to hold the general assemblies. If not, I'm sure there are a whole bunch of nations willing to hand over complexes of sufficient size to do it.
The hardest part would be telling all those ambassadors and support staff that they no longer live and work at the UN in New York. It's not impossible, just difficult logistically. It could take weeks if they set a *very* ambitious schedule.
One of the questions is, what would the US response be? They could detain, or at least delay, the departure of the ambassadors and staff. Sure it'd be totally illegal and against the spirit of International cooperation. That doesn't mean it wouldn't happen.
There are limits to it... Say American applicants were only willing to do the job for $1M/yr, but they can farm it out to a foreign worker for $10K/yr, and the company budget is up to $50K/yr.
I know it's the argument that they claim, yet screw American employees. Hi, I am one.
I worked for 8 years at job where I was making about $125K/yr (including benefits). The job given to a foreign company for $50K/yr. I wasn't offered to take a pay cut, or any other type of negotiation. I just found myself locked out of the servers, and it took them a full day to let me know I wasn't employed any more.
My ex-employer suffered because of it. The outsourced company convinced them that they should be paranoid of me. Every bit of running code, from crons, to public facing interfaces, was rewritten at a cost of over $250K in 6 months. They spent a lot of time hunting for back doors that I simply had never left. I consider back doors a security risk. It's better to focus on keeping the front door secure.
The servers were systematically wiped and replaced (swapping Linux for *BSD). The outsourced company didn't understand the kind of loads my servers were tuned for. On commodity hardware, we could saturate several GigE circuits on any day of the week, and it was redundant enough to take multiple servers or even an entire site outage.
Over the next year, I was told by employees and others associated with the company, about constant failures. The primary revenue sites would go down on a regular basis, because they couldn't tune them properly. When they did operate, they were slow. They did purchase networking hardware I had been fighting for, but they failed to configure them properly either. I suspect the redundancy I had outlined wasn't done, but I don't have any further information on that. They didn't want to reference anything I had done, including 8 years of tuning and analysis of technical requirements.
All in all, from what I've been told by those who are still privileged to information, is that their revenue dropped by millions of dollars.
I don't know if they're still using the other company. I know there was a big fight between the owners, and they parted ways. I'd suspect it wasn't over creative control. Most likely they were seriously impacted by the loss of revenue, and anything could have instigated the split.
They saved about $75K/yr. They lost so much more. There were implications that I might do something to hurt them. I didn't have to, they screwed it up all on their own.
All of my work was well documented. Since the beginning, a copy of the passwords were kept with the owners. In my opinion, it's their company, and they can screw it up any way they want. It just sucks I lost a good job, so a foreign based company could make a little bit more. It sucks for my old company too, as they lost their asses because of it.
From what I read of it, he was talking about his personal feelings and opinions.
I could see if it were a site that he put video of his own suicide on, or other graphic depictions, there would be a reason to remove it. In this case, there was none. It was left as his legacy, or at least for the 5 years he paid for.
There was no good justification in taking it down, except possibly that it took too much traffic. If it were a small hosting company, and had a negative impact on services to other customers, I could see it. Yahoo has enough resources to continue supporting that site for the full term as paid for.
this is why you turn down the radio when looking for an address in the dark
It would be that I'm rolling down the window so my vision isn't obscured by the window tint, so I can see street signs as I pass them; so I don't run over some kid on a bicycle or pedestrian; or so I don't miss an auditory queue?
Why turn down the radio when I'm rolling down the window? So my loud music that's relatively quiet outside the car isn't suddenly loud outside the car.
I turn down the radio and roll down the windows when backing into my own driveway. It's not because I can't process information with the radio on. I wouldn't be able to hear my car nudge a garbage can, or someone yelling "STOP!" because they see something I don't.
No, it's more like the pilots needed to talk to each other and ATC. Any conversation with you would be in the way. The last thing they need is to be given an emergency instruction, and miss it because you were talking at the same time.
It's not a mental bandwidth problem, it's a SNR problem. At that point, you are noise which is easily eliminated by telling you to shut up.
I'm totally against off-shoring jobs, and encouraging foreigners to move to the US to be paid a fraction of the fair market rate. It's ruining the US economy, to boost profits and (somewhat) help the economy of poorer foreign nations.
The choices have driven the US economy to the bring of ruin, which we're barely seeing recovery from now.
Some companies are seeing the damage they're doing, but only when they've seen their customer base decimated. Most of those companies have lost their asses, making the devastation worse.
Exactly. They could have not liked her attitude at the interview, the color of her shoes, the way she said "Hi, I'm here for the interview", or a million other things.
We do know it probably came down to dollars. She wanted Y, they were willing to pay B. No company or organization is required to hire the best candidate. They're only not allowed to discriminate on the list.
I've been not hired before, because when they finally let loose with a number, it was insulting. Not the "I'm worth a million, I'll settle for $200k". It was $20/yr, no benefits. I don't know why they even bothered offering it. After a few in that ballpark, from companies who couldn't afford... well... anything, I start off the conversation with "what's your budget, so I'll know if we should even continue the conversation."
From the article, "High-tech companies claim they can't find Americans to fill U.S jobs, when, in fact, they are rejecting talented Americans..."
Of course they are. Why give her a 6 figure salary, when you can get someone at a weak 5 figures?
That's what I was thinking too. It looked like the guy was the single source of information. He probably tells everyone the same things..
Boeing would be the only aircraft manufacturer interested in using a Boeing simulator. They can make better ones themselves, since they have the engineers, the parts supply, and the budget, to do it right. Theirs also wouldn't include a bunk bed jammed in the corner, nor the trivialized child.
That's if it's flown correctly. If you don't make coordinated turns,you'll feel it. Without the simulator on a moving platform, you wouldn't know the difference.
I've seen a dupe come immediately after the initial post, about an hour later.
It's something you just get used to. Complaining about them is like complaining about traffic, or lines at the DMV. They happen. There isn't anything you can do about it.
If he had been reading the contract, he would have seen the first item. "1) You will not discuss any part of this contract with anyone except the aforementioned Employer."
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That's some serious pressure. Do you make coal into diamonds in your spare time? :)
The way checkpoints have been enforced just about everywhere I've gone, it's not the volume of the liquid contained, but the potential volume of the container...
If you have a 1 gallon container with 1oz of liquid remaining, they'll still seize it.
... and a quick Google search says your wrong.
The presence of lead or other heavy elements was not required for visualization. Fragments as small as 0.5 mm were easily detected if there was no overlying bone.
And a somewhat NSFW link with some glass objects that shouldn't be there.
Density makes a difference. It won't jump out like metal, but it should be visible. here are some examples and notes
So lets see... They thing you're a bad guy with something nefarious in encrypted cloud storage..
They ask for the password, you give the duress password.
They ask again for the password, since that one didn't return valid data..
They beat you for the password until you either give the real password, which you can't any more, or you're dead.
Official cause of death? You tripped.
In the end, the data is wiped, and you're a bloody pulp on the interrogation room floor. Regardless, the problem has been mitigated, and you saved them the trouble of destroying your nefarious something.
Was whatever you had worth hiding? Probably not. Not that I want agencies going through my personal stuff, but when the choice is being beaten down, and possibly killed, that duress password was the worst one to give up first.
A friend of mine offered that kind of service quite a few years ago.
It was a backup service. The user had the key. It was encrypted on the user's site, and only encrypted data sent up to the server.
It's not novel. It's a slashvertisment. {sigh}
http://xkcd.com/538/
And as a Slashdot reader, I know that users never RTFM or the EULA. Even if they do, they won't remember it.
Remember drivers ed? They tend to tell you to use turn signals. In practice, the check engine light will burn out before the turn signals will.
(wooh! a car analogy!)
You say that as if he were selling fireworks, caustic cleaning supplies, or surplus hand grenades.
He complied, labeling the product as not for children, and not for ingestion. The same kind of warnings that show up on fireworks *and* caustic cleaning supplies. I don't believe hand grenades have the same warning on them.
Well it seems that there is a warning on smoke greandes"DANGER-DO NOT USE HC IN CONFINED OR ENCLOSED AREAS- PERSONNEL MUST WEAR THE PROTECTIVE MASK IN ANY CONCENTRATION OF HC SMOKE" It doesn't say you can't feed it to children though.
Next time you hear about a child getting hurt with a firework, household cleaning supplies, or falling off a bicycle, be sure to remind them to sue the CEO for selling dangerous items. Don't forget to sue the CEO of every company along the entire distribution chain too.
I happen to be allergic to something that someone wears or uses at work. Last week, I had to spend some time outside, because they walked by my office, and I started sneezing constantly.
I have no idea who it is, or what it is. Since it doesn't last all day, I assume it's someone reapplying their stink.
I mentioned it in conversation with one of the executive's assistants. Well, because I was sitting outside sounding like I had a nasty cold that cleared up in about 15 minutes. They told me all I had to do was complain and they'd reinforce the policy against perfumes. I told them I won't complain, and would address it with the person directly if I ever find who it is.
I was already able to definitely track one stink. It was room air freshener that someone used. I had suspicions. It was confirmed when I walked back into my office and started sneezing just a couple minutes after they had sprayed it. They still use it, but sparingly, and that doesn't make me sneeze. Problem solved. No official paperwork, and no hard feelings. :)
I've stopped listening to radio stations specifically for that reason. One had an ad that they played about every 15 minutes, with an ambulance siren. So during the evening commute, I could hear it about 8 times.
I don't know if they still play that ad. It's better that I listen to something else (or nothing at all), than rescan the environment for an emergency vehicle that isn't there.
WELL, THERE GOES MY CREDIT SCORE.
FUNNY, MANY CREDIT REPORTS ARE WRITTEN IN ALL CAPS. POT. KETTLE.
THE FOURTH AGAINST THE WALL AFTER THE REVOLUTION WILL BE THE CREDIT BUREAU EXECUTIVES. THE FIRST THREE WILL BE MARKETING EXECUTIVES FROM SIRIUS CYBERNETICS CORPORATION, LAWYERS AND POLITICIANS.
Damn. The all caps are hurting my brain.
And it tripped the filters.
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That would be an act of war. At least it could be perceived as such by the US.
The UN already has four major offices. Geneva, Nairobi, New York, and Vienna. I believe all have facilities sufficient to hold the general assemblies. If not, I'm sure there are a whole bunch of nations willing to hand over complexes of sufficient size to do it.
The hardest part would be telling all those ambassadors and support staff that they no longer live and work at the UN in New York. It's not impossible, just difficult logistically. It could take weeks if they set a *very* ambitious schedule.
One of the questions is, what would the US response be? They could detain, or at least delay, the departure of the ambassadors and staff. Sure it'd be totally illegal and against the spirit of International cooperation. That doesn't mean it wouldn't happen.
There are limits to it... Say American applicants were only willing to do the job for $1M/yr, but they can farm it out to a foreign worker for $10K/yr, and the company budget is up to $50K/yr.
I know it's the argument that they claim, yet screw American employees. Hi, I am one.
I worked for 8 years at job where I was making about $125K/yr (including benefits). The job given to a foreign company for $50K/yr. I wasn't offered to take a pay cut, or any other type of negotiation. I just found myself locked out of the servers, and it took them a full day to let me know I wasn't employed any more.
My ex-employer suffered because of it. The outsourced company convinced them that they should be paranoid of me. Every bit of running code, from crons, to public facing interfaces, was rewritten at a cost of over $250K in 6 months. They spent a lot of time hunting for back doors that I simply had never left. I consider back doors a security risk. It's better to focus on keeping the front door secure.
The servers were systematically wiped and replaced (swapping Linux for *BSD). The outsourced company didn't understand the kind of loads my servers were tuned for. On commodity hardware, we could saturate several GigE circuits on any day of the week, and it was redundant enough to take multiple servers or even an entire site outage.
Over the next year, I was told by employees and others associated with the company, about constant failures. The primary revenue sites would go down on a regular basis, because they couldn't tune them properly. When they did operate, they were slow. They did purchase networking hardware I had been fighting for, but they failed to configure them properly either. I suspect the redundancy I had outlined wasn't done, but I don't have any further information on that. They didn't want to reference anything I had done, including 8 years of tuning and analysis of technical requirements.
All in all, from what I've been told by those who are still privileged to information, is that their revenue dropped by millions of dollars.
I don't know if they're still using the other company. I know there was a big fight between the owners, and they parted ways. I'd suspect it wasn't over creative control. Most likely they were seriously impacted by the loss of revenue, and anything could have instigated the split.
They saved about $75K/yr. They lost so much more. There were implications that I might do something to hurt them. I didn't have to, they screwed it up all on their own.
All of my work was well documented. Since the beginning, a copy of the passwords were kept with the owners. In my opinion, it's their company, and they can screw it up any way they want. It just sucks I lost a good job, so a foreign based company could make a little bit more. It sucks for my old company too, as they lost their asses because of it.
From what I read of it, he was talking about his personal feelings and opinions.
I could see if it were a site that he put video of his own suicide on, or other graphic depictions, there would be a reason to remove it. In this case, there was none. It was left as his legacy, or at least for the 5 years he paid for.
There was no good justification in taking it down, except possibly that it took too much traffic. If it were a small hosting company, and had a negative impact on services to other customers, I could see it. Yahoo has enough resources to continue supporting that site for the full term as paid for.
In this timeline, it's only legal to kill one of those two groups.
It would be that I'm rolling down the window so my vision isn't obscured by the window tint, so I can see street signs as I pass them; so I don't run over some kid on a bicycle or pedestrian; or so I don't miss an auditory queue?
Why turn down the radio when I'm rolling down the window? So my loud music that's relatively quiet outside the car isn't suddenly loud outside the car.
I turn down the radio and roll down the windows when backing into my own driveway. It's not because I can't process information with the radio on. I wouldn't be able to hear my car nudge a garbage can, or someone yelling "STOP!" because they see something I don't.
No, it's more like the pilots needed to talk to each other and ATC. Any conversation with you would be in the way. The last thing they need is to be given an emergency instruction, and miss it because you were talking at the same time.
It's not a mental bandwidth problem, it's a SNR problem. At that point, you are noise which is easily eliminated by telling you to shut up.
Exactly.
I'm totally against off-shoring jobs, and encouraging foreigners to move to the US to be paid a fraction of the fair market rate. It's ruining the US economy, to boost profits and (somewhat) help the economy of poorer foreign nations.
The choices have driven the US economy to the bring of ruin, which we're barely seeing recovery from now.
Some companies are seeing the damage they're doing, but only when they've seen their customer base decimated. Most of those companies have lost their asses, making the devastation worse.
I'll sugar coat it next time.
Exactly. They could have not liked her attitude at the interview, the color of her shoes, the way she said "Hi, I'm here for the interview", or a million other things.
We do know it probably came down to dollars. She wanted Y, they were willing to pay B. No company or organization is required to hire the best candidate. They're only not allowed to discriminate on the list.
I've been not hired before, because when they finally let loose with a number, it was insulting. Not the "I'm worth a million, I'll settle for $200k". It was $20/yr, no benefits. I don't know why they even bothered offering it. After a few in that ballpark, from companies who couldn't afford ... well ... anything, I start off the conversation with "what's your budget, so I'll know if we should even continue the conversation."
From the article, "High-tech companies claim they can't find Americans to fill U.S jobs, when, in fact, they are rejecting talented Americans..."
Of course they are. Why give her a 6 figure salary, when you can get someone at a weak 5 figures?
If it's an option that you can turn on, but you fail to turn it on, or that part of the system fails, you wouldn't know the difference.
It's cute as a expensive toy. Not so hot as a pilot trainer, which seems is what he intended it to be.
That's what I was thinking too. It looked like the guy was the single source of information. He probably tells everyone the same things..
Boeing would be the only aircraft manufacturer interested in using a Boeing simulator. They can make better ones themselves, since they have the engineers, the parts supply, and the budget, to do it right. Theirs also wouldn't include a bunk bed jammed in the corner, nor the trivialized child.
That's if it's flown correctly. If you don't make coordinated turns,you'll feel it. Without the simulator on a moving platform, you wouldn't know the difference.
You're thinking of http://photosynth.net/. I put up a few sets back in 2008 and 2009.
It looks like they tuned it up a bit. The SR-71 at Smithsonian Dulles" set didn't work very well when I first put it up.
The "Downtown Los Angeles 11.20.2008" set is interesting. The hotel room kind of fades in and out because I moved around while I was shooting it.
They must have been very selective, or they did some extra processing, to make theirs look really good.
I've seen a dupe come immediately after the initial post, about an hour later.
It's something you just get used to. Complaining about them is like complaining about traffic, or lines at the DMV. They happen. There isn't anything you can do about it.
If he had been reading the contract, he would have seen the first item. "1) You will not discuss any part of this contract with anyone except the aforementioned Employer."