I can't stand youtube "articles" where they drone on for 20 minutes in what should have been a 2 paragraph piece of text.
I couldn't agree more--the trend where every fucking web-page needs an accompanying video (that MUST autoplay!...or we won't get enough views!) is extremely annoying to anyone with reading and reading comprehension skills beyond the second grade. For us, the ability to read something (or scan it) faster than some dope can dictate the same information becomes a massive, world-destroying time suck.
As a policy, when I was on the helpdesk, I would log those messages into tickets titled "garbled voice-mail" and not call back on principle. Sorry, no, we can't help you if you can't be bothered to learn basic telephone manners at the age of 35. Thankfully, now almost every company allows employees to submit tickets online, so I'm sure we've totally "Solved" one problem by shunting the idiots who can't leave a voice-mail that is understandable to human ears onto a web-app where they religious leave every field blank, or if fields are required type "space bar" or "*" into the field to get around it, and describe their problem as "the system is down."
Maybe also email the mp3 for those 1 in 100 cases where I actually want to listen to the message.
...And for the 15 times in 100 that the voice-recognition "hears" the wrong thing. No, Grandma's voice-mail sent the night before Junior left for college didn't end with "Food fuck!"
Customers who use more than 26GB of data in a bill cycle will have their data usage de-prioritized compared to other customers for that bill cycle at locations and times when competing network demands occur, resulting in relatively slower speeds
This is still better than the old "unlimited" offer which began de prioritizing your traffic onto shitty edge wireless after 2GB of monthly usage. 26 GB (based on the usage data for me the last year) says I regularly consume around 10GB per month. So for me it would be a great deal, since all my traffic would be "not deprioritized."
Yeah, that's the other patriotic favor Snowden did for us--he demonstrated our security procedures are shite.
Consider: If the bureaucrats breaking the law willy nilly weren't even able to competently keep the secrets that (theoretically, of course, in real life we know it's not happening) could have landed them all in the Federal pokey for many years, what chance did they have of keeping national security secrets?
You know what costs not a nickel extra, though? Buying unlocked phones directly from manufacturers and bringing your own device. As a bonus, it also requires no technical knowledge.
With a mark up to 20 bucks an hour to their American customers. Or work for 60,000 as a Software Dev filling a Principle Dev role with commensurate experience.
Yeah, it turns out kids who took student loans and owe $40k-50k in debt can't afford to work for $32,500 per year for a job that should pay north of $75k, pay rent, and bills, and meaningfully participate int he economy (say by saving for and buying a house.)
But screw the economy as a whole! As long as the bosses can get cheap labor, who gives a fuck if the next generation can't ever afford to buy a house? Or a car? Or major appliances? It's not like we manufacture those in this country anyway.
How about you hire 36,000 people to clean up the city and the water?
Why not do both? Hey all, you cops--when there aren't any criminals to bust, how about you pick up some litter, put it in a trashcan? Maybe one of you knows how to drive a garbage truck? Perhaps haul away some of those piles of trash!
It doesn't have to be police OR garbage collection, dammit--just have the same people do both jobs!
I don't recall signing an authorization for my data to be used this way. Nor did I engage in informed consent with any of the vendors that have disclosed this information to this third party--how about we just figure out who is selling them data and sue a few of them into bankruptcy? It'll scare away other potential sellers and take this predatory organization down.
Not only should it not be legal, they should be obligated to give 100% of the ill-gotten gains they've received from doing so in the past to the customers whose privacy they violated.
Right--the cable ISP business is profitable already, to the tune of an ~90% profit margin. What they're really bitching about here is being blocked from attempting to double-dip and charge two parties for the same bandwidth instead of the current total of one.
They should've asked the question: why is my school billed at a higher rate, than I'm paying at home
You're making an apples to zebras comparison: Residential telephone services are significantly cheaper than business services--such a disparity is by design. The phone company charges more to businesses because they're using the lines to make a profit and the phone company knows that business customers can't live without phone lines.
Without access to another comparably sized organizations business telephone billing records, this would be very tough for the school to even check, if not impossible.
The way to work around this is that there are companies whose entire reason for existence is to analyze telephone bills for businesses, governments, and other organizations. They have access to telephone bills from various customers, and probably would have noticed pretty quickly if such a scheme were in progress.
The real issue is the fact that DNC tried to stop Bernie with a few underhanded tactics.
Did they? Curious how you are completely willing to believe the authenticity of data that has been revealed to have come from Russian Intel. They are willing to hack into a server to influence US elections, but they aren't above altering content here and there to sew dissent?
None of the people who sent the emails have disputed the accuracy of the dumps, so I'd say you're barking up the wrong tree here.
It's pretty brilliant. It more or less neutralizes the ability of Trump to bring up her email situation without immediately reminding everyone who Putin supports. Which is S.O.P. politics: Make the other person's strength into a weakness. So Trump's earlier advantage of having the emails to harp on now will remind the public of his support from Putin and the FSB.
A trade group for the software industry claiming there are a quarter million software jobs open around the country. Yet oddly, when people with years of experience apply for these positions they are routinely told they don't have the experience the company is looking for.
Indeed. This is part of the "have to find a pink unicorn" philosophy of corporate hiring brought about by the disposable worker phenomenon. That is: Companies only want to hire the special snowflake that already has 100% of the skills and knowledge they want because they are willing to invest $0 in training them to do the job. Once upon a time, experience in related (but not identical) skills and tools were considered a good measurement of whether you could learn something and be good at a job involving it. Nowadays, you're totally disqualified if you're not an absolutely exact match.
Not coincidentally, this same philosophy leads to the endless import of H1-Bs willing to work for 40% less than an American, and is espoused by a very strongly correlated and overlapping group of folks. Most of the people preaching "skill shortage!" also are the ones proposing the solution is to import cheap labor from abroad.
The unprofitable areas are those areas with low population density. Do you know what you don't find in areas with low population density? That's right, municipalities that have money to invest in wireless broadband.
You're thinking too 1:1. Although it is unlikely that every little podunk town will be able to have their own municipal wireless system, the frequencies in question are utterly pristine, and we have a long history of broadcast engineers sharing these frequencies and not interfering with each other, despite having stations blanketing the country. By positioning a tall enough/correctly engineered station in a central location, many rural communities could share one "system" between them.
It's something of a flim-flam, though--they're not "buying" anything, merely purchasing the right to apply for a license that can be revoked. Granted, license revocation is a rare thing, but it's out there does to some degree constrain the operators of licensed broadcast/wireless systems on every band.
Think of it like this: Any way you issue the licenses, they're valuable. By charging for them, you at least raise some money in exchange for this valuable license, rather than just giving it away for the $295 application fee.
That said, I'd be thrilled to see a significant portion of this allotment reserved for municipal wireless broadband in "unprofitable" areas. We have to close the internet gap to give our rural neighbors the chance to enjoy the development and growth that connectivity enables.
The average pay for the work increases with every immigrant.
Um, no. There's something called a saturation point, beyond which adding in more programmers drives down wages. This is nothing more than employers trying to rig the supply and demand equation and save a buck. Any crowing about "shortages" of skilled STEM talent are mostly B.S.--the problem is they won't raise wages to attract someone to the job, and would prefer the government allow them to import cheap H1-B labor, or saturate the market by granting permanent residency to anyone who goes gets a STEM degree here. Both practices dilute wages, because both practices allow employers to defy the laws of supply and demand--they want to monkey with the available supply of these workers to keep wages down.
It only becomes a problem if we don't pay any attention to how it's done.
This idea is a non-starter. We already discourage students from pursuing STEM degrees by allowing companies like Facebook and Microsoft to import cheap labor in the form of H1-B visas--are we now to add a further disincentive by saying that anybody who can slither under the wire to get accepted to a U.S. university (and graduate) is now your permanent competition inside the United States? That's so self-destructive it's ridiculous. Policies like this are why the idiots in Britain voted to shoot their country (and themselves, directly) in the foot with a "Brexit" vote--because of the perception that their government serves "outsiders" ahead of them.
This policy would make that even more the case in the United States and might push even rational Americans to consider a Trump vote.
And why is the US still throwing money at the F35, unless it can be flown without pilots.
So the same criminals that we're paying a king's ransom to in order to develop an aircraft that may not be able to dogfight effectively in real life (limited ammo supply for machine gun = don't miss!) will be able to charge us a second king's ransom to add the AI flight capability later.
Military Contractor Business Plan Principle #1: Don't "volunteer" anything. If the customer wants a feature after the contract is already in progress, don't suggest that it be added. Make them come back to the table and ask for it so you can renegotiate and demand billions more dollars.
He forgot to repeat "I didn't think it through" when he called Valve, told them he hacked into their server, copying the source code to their product, resulting in the source code for their main product being released publicly, and then asked for a job.
Is there any company where that situation would happen and it ends with "you're hired!"
Never underestimate the naivete and gullibility of a young person with a dream. Even as we speak, there are tens of thousands of kids across the country taking out huge student loans to get degrees that will barely qualify them for barista jobs at Starbucks--all because someone told them to "pursue your dreams" without adding the vital addendum "But have a realistic backup plan."
Plus, there are a number of tales of "former hackers" hired for security work. The part of the story that usually gets left out of discussions of this phenomena is the amount of jail time or legal charges the person had to sort out before they got that job. Very few of them jumped from "I totally committed a felony you were the victim of" to "I'd like $150k and a car allowance."
Better: At venues large enough that this is really an "issue" there is often an ambulance already onsite to deal with any medical calamities--for "music festivals" there are often two on site. So the hundreds of bouncers they have working these shows all have walkie-talkie radios and can probbaly get the already-there ambulance crew to your seat faster than you'd get an ambulance dispatched from the fire station by 9-1-1, to the venue, parked, and into the place.
Included in that pile is an agreement to take a lower base salary for your last pay check, which is then used for non-compete salary calculations.
I imagine they may have considered this possibility... Seems pretty easily thwarted--just use the person's salary as their average of the last three paychecks, with the caveat that amounts less than the check previously issued are unusable for this computation (i.e. you can change his salary on the last day, or months ahead of time, but because it's an average that can't be computed based on values in decline, it doesn't matter.)
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I couldn't agree more--the trend where every fucking web-page needs an accompanying video (that MUST autoplay! ...or we won't get enough views!) is extremely annoying to anyone with reading and reading comprehension skills beyond the second grade. For us, the ability to read something (or scan it) faster than some dope can dictate the same information becomes a massive, world-destroying time suck.
As a policy, when I was on the helpdesk, I would log those messages into tickets titled "garbled voice-mail" and not call back on principle. Sorry, no, we can't help you if you can't be bothered to learn basic telephone manners at the age of 35. Thankfully, now almost every company allows employees to submit tickets online, so I'm sure we've totally "Solved" one problem by shunting the idiots who can't leave a voice-mail that is understandable to human ears onto a web-app where they religious leave every field blank, or if fields are required type "space bar" or "*" into the field to get around it, and describe their problem as "the system is down."
This is still better than the old "unlimited" offer which began de prioritizing your traffic onto shitty edge wireless after 2GB of monthly usage. 26 GB (based on the usage data for me the last year) says I regularly consume around 10GB per month. So for me it would be a great deal, since all my traffic would be "not deprioritized."
Yeah, that's the other patriotic favor Snowden did for us--he demonstrated our security procedures are shite.
Consider: If the bureaucrats breaking the law willy nilly weren't even able to competently keep the secrets that (theoretically, of course, in real life we know it's not happening) could have landed them all in the Federal pokey for many years, what chance did they have of keeping national security secrets?
You know what costs not a nickel extra, though? Buying unlocked phones directly from manufacturers and bringing your own device. As a bonus, it also requires no technical knowledge.
With a mark up to 20 bucks an hour to their American customers. Or work for 60,000 as a Software Dev filling a Principle Dev role with commensurate experience.
Yeah, it turns out kids who took student loans and owe $40k-50k in debt can't afford to work for $32,500 per year for a job that should pay north of $75k, pay rent, and bills, and meaningfully participate int he economy (say by saving for and buying a house.)
But screw the economy as a whole! As long as the bosses can get cheap labor, who gives a fuck if the next generation can't ever afford to buy a house? Or a car? Or major appliances? It's not like we manufacture those in this country anyway.
I've heard this before and it sounds like a wonderful idea. Plus, that's the traditional way to have the olympics, anyway! Everybody goes to Greece!
How about you hire 36,000 people to clean up the city and the water?
Why not do both? Hey all, you cops--when there aren't any criminals to bust, how about you pick up some litter, put it in a trashcan? Maybe one of you knows how to drive a garbage truck? Perhaps haul away some of those piles of trash!
It doesn't have to be police OR garbage collection, dammit--just have the same people do both jobs!
I don't recall signing an authorization for my data to be used this way. Nor did I engage in informed consent with any of the vendors that have disclosed this information to this third party--how about we just figure out who is selling them data and sue a few of them into bankruptcy? It'll scare away other potential sellers and take this predatory organization down.
Not only should it not be legal, they should be obligated to give 100% of the ill-gotten gains they've received from doing so in the past to the customers whose privacy they violated.
Right--the cable ISP business is profitable already, to the tune of an ~90% profit margin. What they're really bitching about here is being blocked from attempting to double-dip and charge two parties for the same bandwidth instead of the current total of one.
You're making an apples to zebras comparison: Residential telephone services are significantly cheaper than business services--such a disparity is by design. The phone company charges more to businesses because they're using the lines to make a profit and the phone company knows that business customers can't live without phone lines.
Without access to another comparably sized organizations business telephone billing records, this would be very tough for the school to even check, if not impossible.
The way to work around this is that there are companies whose entire reason for existence is to analyze telephone bills for businesses, governments, and other organizations. They have access to telephone bills from various customers, and probably would have noticed pretty quickly if such a scheme were in progress.
The real issue is the fact that DNC tried to stop Bernie with a few underhanded tactics.
Did they? Curious how you are completely willing to believe the authenticity of data that has been revealed to have come from Russian Intel. They are willing to hack into a server to influence US elections, but they aren't above altering content here and there to sew dissent?
None of the people who sent the emails have disputed the accuracy of the dumps, so I'd say you're barking up the wrong tree here.
It's pretty brilliant. It more or less neutralizes the ability of Trump to bring up her email situation without immediately reminding everyone who Putin supports. Which is S.O.P. politics: Make the other person's strength into a weakness. So Trump's earlier advantage of having the emails to harp on now will remind the public of his support from Putin and the FSB.
A trade group for the software industry claiming there are a quarter million software jobs open around the country. Yet oddly, when people with years of experience apply for these positions they are routinely told they don't have the experience the company is looking for.
Indeed. This is part of the "have to find a pink unicorn" philosophy of corporate hiring brought about by the disposable worker phenomenon. That is: Companies only want to hire the special snowflake that already has 100% of the skills and knowledge they want because they are willing to invest $0 in training them to do the job. Once upon a time, experience in related (but not identical) skills and tools were considered a good measurement of whether you could learn something and be good at a job involving it. Nowadays, you're totally disqualified if you're not an absolutely exact match.
Not coincidentally, this same philosophy leads to the endless import of H1-Bs willing to work for 40% less than an American, and is espoused by a very strongly correlated and overlapping group of folks. Most of the people preaching "skill shortage!" also are the ones proposing the solution is to import cheap labor from abroad.
I thought we had confirmation...
The unprofitable areas are those areas with low population density. Do you know what you don't find in areas with low population density? That's right, municipalities that have money to invest in wireless broadband.
You're thinking too 1:1. Although it is unlikely that every little podunk town will be able to have their own municipal wireless system, the frequencies in question are utterly pristine, and we have a long history of broadcast engineers sharing these frequencies and not interfering with each other, despite having stations blanketing the country. By positioning a tall enough/correctly engineered station in a central location, many rural communities could share one "system" between them.
It's something of a flim-flam, though--they're not "buying" anything, merely purchasing the right to apply for a license that can be revoked. Granted, license revocation is a rare thing, but it's out there does to some degree constrain the operators of licensed broadcast/wireless systems on every band.
Think of it like this: Any way you issue the licenses, they're valuable. By charging for them, you at least raise some money in exchange for this valuable license, rather than just giving it away for the $295 application fee.
That said, I'd be thrilled to see a significant portion of this allotment reserved for municipal wireless broadband in "unprofitable" areas. We have to close the internet gap to give our rural neighbors the chance to enjoy the development and growth that connectivity enables.
The average pay for the work increases with every immigrant.
Um, no. There's something called a saturation point, beyond which adding in more programmers drives down wages. This is nothing more than employers trying to rig the supply and demand equation and save a buck. Any crowing about "shortages" of skilled STEM talent are mostly B.S.--the problem is they won't raise wages to attract someone to the job, and would prefer the government allow them to import cheap H1-B labor, or saturate the market by granting permanent residency to anyone who goes gets a STEM degree here. Both practices dilute wages, because both practices allow employers to defy the laws of supply and demand--they want to monkey with the available supply of these workers to keep wages down.
It only becomes a problem if we don't pay any attention to how it's done.
This idea is a non-starter. We already discourage students from pursuing STEM degrees by allowing companies like Facebook and Microsoft to import cheap labor in the form of H1-B visas--are we now to add a further disincentive by saying that anybody who can slither under the wire to get accepted to a U.S. university (and graduate) is now your permanent competition inside the United States? That's so self-destructive it's ridiculous. Policies like this are why the idiots in Britain voted to shoot their country (and themselves, directly) in the foot with a "Brexit" vote--because of the perception that their government serves "outsiders" ahead of them.
This policy would make that even more the case in the United States and might push even rational Americans to consider a Trump vote.
So the same criminals that we're paying a king's ransom to in order to develop an aircraft that may not be able to dogfight effectively in real life (limited ammo supply for machine gun = don't miss!) will be able to charge us a second king's ransom to add the AI flight capability later.
Military Contractor Business Plan Principle #1: Don't "volunteer" anything. If the customer wants a feature after the contract is already in progress, don't suggest that it be added. Make them come back to the table and ask for it so you can renegotiate and demand billions more dollars.
He forgot to repeat "I didn't think it through" when he called Valve, told them he hacked into their server, copying the source code to their product, resulting in the source code for their main product being released publicly, and then asked for a job.
Is there any company where that situation would happen and it ends with "you're hired!"
Never underestimate the naivete and gullibility of a young person with a dream. Even as we speak, there are tens of thousands of kids across the country taking out huge student loans to get degrees that will barely qualify them for barista jobs at Starbucks--all because someone told them to "pursue your dreams" without adding the vital addendum "But have a realistic backup plan."
Plus, there are a number of tales of "former hackers" hired for security work. The part of the story that usually gets left out of discussions of this phenomena is the amount of jail time or legal charges the person had to sort out before they got that job. Very few of them jumped from "I totally committed a felony you were the victim of" to "I'd like $150k and a car allowance."
The guards presumably still have working phones.
Better: At venues large enough that this is really an "issue" there is often an ambulance already onsite to deal with any medical calamities--for "music festivals" there are often two on site. So the hundreds of bouncers they have working these shows all have walkie-talkie radios and can probbaly get the already-there ambulance crew to your seat faster than you'd get an ambulance dispatched from the fire station by 9-1-1, to the venue, parked, and into the place.
I imagine they may have considered this possibility... Seems pretty easily thwarted--just use the person's salary as their average of the last three paychecks, with the caveat that amounts less than the check previously issued are unusable for this computation (i.e. you can change his salary on the last day, or months ahead of time, but because it's an average that can't be computed based on values in decline, it doesn't matter.)