Clearly you don't know that California is run by democrats.
Oh yes, ha ha, it was Democrats running wild with deregulation who were responsible for the Enron fiasco, right? Come on. Yes, California is generally a liberal state, but you can't tell me that it's the Democrats who are fighting tooth and nail against a minimum wage.
This is the Republican agenda. Outsource, Offshore, Automate. Anything to avoid paying human beings a living wage to do the work. $15/hr, gosh, I could hire 10 Indians for that! The mantra of Republicans is "I Got Mine, So Fuck You!" Why should you have a job? Why should you have health care? Why should you even be alive if you haven't bootstrapped yourself to my status? I worked hard to inherit a million dollars and I can afford what I need, so you can go get fucked, you whining pleb!
Having changed the corporate outlook from 5 or 10 years to just the next 3 months, Republicans and their PROFIT UBER ALLES attitude are destroying America.
At one company where I've worked, we had some horrid abomination of an intranet web application that performed all sorts of stupid arbitrary checks like this. The intranet was utilised to add all new hires into all of our systems: intranet account, email, HR, travel system, calendar, helpdesk, yadda yadda. They'd fill out a form with the person's info and the intranet web app would automagically populate all of the other databases and set up all the varied accounts. Great thing, when it worked, which was 99.9% of the time, a real timesaver.
One of the requirements, for some inexplicable reason lost to the inevitable passing of institutional knowledge, was first names had to be at least 2 chars. Well one day we got an employee whose real given name was 25+ characters long, Tavarithpindarthaseeramanjian or something, and when he naturalized to the US he changed his legal first name to "T" - just the letter. The lady who did employee onboarding dutifully filled out the intranet form and of course it bombed out on the two character requirement. Her trouble ticket went to the developer team responsible for the intranet, who kicked it over to me as the DBA saying the character requirement was not easily changed (WTF?). When I looked around at how many systems I was going to have to manually add this guy to - I instructed the onboarding lady to enter his first name as "Mr. T" instead, and the form would work.
And that's the story of how that company wound up with a rather short and slight looking, completely unimposing Indian guy who was known company wide as "Mr. T"...
No, see, that would be illegal wiretapping and would get you locked up in a heartbeat. But if your business does it, then it's Job Creation and you'll get a polite letter. Praise be to the corporation!
It's not like they'd go after people just for googling Pr3ssur3 c00kers and f3rt1lizers in the same day (google it if you're brave)
I'm running the TrackMeNot browser extension on 6 different computers in the house, it automatically Googles (and Bings and Baidus and Yahoos) for terms like that 24/7. No knocks at the door yet but NSA must think I'm operating some kind of Ebil Muslin Safehouse.
Serious question, being Japan and all, why haven't they committed honorific suicide? It seems to be a cultural normalcy for Japanese who find themselves in a position like that. Even bankers who have "merely" caused the loss of money instead of lives will often make a swan dive from a skyscraper.
They almost certainly have video surveillance in those busses and trains too, yet no mention of that being "mass surveillance".
That can be a good thing, too. When three people pick a fight with you on the bus, then accuse you of being the aggressor and committing a racial hate crime, that bus video can exonerate you of those false accusations. I'm pretty sure the victim there is very happy the bus had video surveillance.
No, those two things complement each other perfectly. In a few years time the American labor market will be so flooded with IT professionals, we'll be even cheaper than the Indians. The companies will bring the jobs back onshore and we'll be the ones competing for the opportunity to work for $100 a week.
Just don't join or use FaceBook? Simple..easy to do.
They're tracking you anyway and building a shadow profile about you. All those "Share this on Facebook" links that permeate the web are phoning home to Facebook with the URLs of the sites you visit, and they're compiling a dossier of all your history. Cross reference once or twice with a database they rent from Doubleclick or wherever and they know exactly who you are. Even if you think you don't have a Facebook account, you do: you just haven't claimed it yet.
Belgium has recently made this practice illegal, hopefully Germany will follow suit.
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Clearly you don't know that California is run by democrats.
Oh yes, ha ha, it was Democrats running wild with deregulation who were responsible for the Enron fiasco, right? Come on. Yes, California is generally a liberal state, but you can't tell me that it's the Democrats who are fighting tooth and nail against a minimum wage.
This is the Republican agenda. Outsource, Offshore, Automate. Anything to avoid paying human beings a living wage to do the work. $15/hr, gosh, I could hire 10 Indians for that! The mantra of Republicans is "I Got Mine, So Fuck You!" Why should you have a job? Why should you have health care? Why should you even be alive if you haven't bootstrapped yourself to my status? I worked hard to inherit a million dollars and I can afford what I need, so you can go get fucked, you whining pleb!
Having changed the corporate outlook from 5 or 10 years to just the next 3 months, Republicans and their PROFIT UBER ALLES attitude are destroying America.
The text of the DMCA explicitly exempts law enforcement. You didn't really think the rules would apply to the rulers, did you?
At one company where I've worked, we had some horrid abomination of an intranet web application that performed all sorts of stupid arbitrary checks like this. The intranet was utilised to add all new hires into all of our systems: intranet account, email, HR, travel system, calendar, helpdesk, yadda yadda. They'd fill out a form with the person's info and the intranet web app would automagically populate all of the other databases and set up all the varied accounts. Great thing, when it worked, which was 99.9% of the time, a real timesaver.
One of the requirements, for some inexplicable reason lost to the inevitable passing of institutional knowledge, was first names had to be at least 2 chars. Well one day we got an employee whose real given name was 25+ characters long, Tavarithpindarthaseeramanjian or something, and when he naturalized to the US he changed his legal first name to "T" - just the letter. The lady who did employee onboarding dutifully filled out the intranet form and of course it bombed out on the two character requirement. Her trouble ticket went to the developer team responsible for the intranet, who kicked it over to me as the DBA saying the character requirement was not easily changed (WTF?). When I looked around at how many systems I was going to have to manually add this guy to - I instructed the onboarding lady to enter his first name as "Mr. T" instead, and the form would work.
And that's the story of how that company wound up with a rather short and slight looking, completely unimposing Indian guy who was known company wide as "Mr. T"...
No, see, that would be illegal wiretapping and would get you locked up in a heartbeat. But if your business does it, then it's Job Creation and you'll get a polite letter. Praise be to the corporation!
Keming is a bitch. But I don't think that would help here, a monospace font doesn't make .om look any more or less like .com.
It's a good thing we're getting more women in IT. Now they can start taking their share of the blame for vulnerabilities.
It's not like they'd go after people just for googling Pr3ssur3 c00kers and f3rt1lizers in the same day (google it if you're brave)
I'm running the TrackMeNot browser extension on 6 different computers in the house, it automatically Googles (and Bings and Baidus and Yahoos) for terms like that 24/7. No knocks at the door yet but NSA must think I'm operating some kind of Ebil Muslin Safehouse.
Serious question, being Japan and all, why haven't they committed honorific suicide? It seems to be a cultural normalcy for Japanese who find themselves in a position like that. Even bankers who have "merely" caused the loss of money instead of lives will often make a swan dive from a skyscraper.
Will Slashdot be giving away another PT Cruiser to celebrate this milestone?
So, Satya, how's laying off your entire QA department working out for you?
They almost certainly have video surveillance in those busses and trains too, yet no mention of that being "mass surveillance".
That can be a good thing, too. When three people pick a fight with you on the bus, then accuse you of being the aggressor and committing a racial hate crime, that bus video can exonerate you of those false accusations. I'm pretty sure the victim there is very happy the bus had video surveillance.
No, those two things complement each other perfectly. In a few years time the American labor market will be so flooded with IT professionals, we'll be even cheaper than the Indians. The companies will bring the jobs back onshore and we'll be the ones competing for the opportunity to work for $100 a week.
Just don't join or use FaceBook? Simple..easy to do.
They're tracking you anyway and building a shadow profile about you. All those "Share this on Facebook" links that permeate the web are phoning home to Facebook with the URLs of the sites you visit, and they're compiling a dossier of all your history. Cross reference once or twice with a database they rent from Doubleclick or wherever and they know exactly who you are. Even if you think you don't have a Facebook account, you do: you just haven't claimed it yet.
Belgium has recently made this practice illegal, hopefully Germany will follow suit.