That's a great point but it does seem like a company should have the right to enable GPS tracking for company assets.
You know, it really doesn't. Companies don't feel the need to track every pencil that goes out of their office, the only reason they're tracking the phone is because it's easy and has a person attached to it. If you can't trust your employee to take care of a company asset then you can't trust your employee for much at all.
It is important to note, however, that putting the phone in the Faraday bag emulated loss of signal, instead of loss of power, since the program in the phone reported these conditions differently, and so also were the interpretations of these conditions by management.
OK, you may have got around the problem for you, but other people are still being screwed, and management are still having silly expectations. Having some balls and switching the thing off on your own time is better for everyone.
Do you have any sources for this "breaking it down on age, education, grades, jobs, actual experience (part-time vs full-time, overtime, time on leave) you find that most these differences disappear"?
What I particularly love about the recent use of the phrase "social justice" is that the people using it seem to think it's a negative one. How the hell can you be against social justice? Are you campaigning for social injustice?
Can't speak for conspiracy. Can speak for several friends with different models of iPhone that have seen this exact effect. There doesn't have to be a deliberate conspiracy for it still to happen.
I love the regularity of this type of article, and the complete lack of justification why suddenly *now* it's necessary whereas demonstrably before now it has not been required.
It's not perfect, but the Apple model of effectively forcing old hardware into uselessness (ie becoming so slow with the latest OS) isn't exactly perfect either.
When there's a new version of iOS, I get it the day it's released.
And I have seen every generation of iPhone eventually be upgraded into uselessness because the hardware is too slow to run the operating system. What's worse, because the majority do get upgraded, app developers quickly stop supporting old OS versions and those people who don't upgrade *still* end up with a useless smartphone because the apps stop working. It's not all bread and roses in the iOS model either.
The far better solution is to Disable apps (can be done from the app settings) and then they effectively don't exist to the operating system (though they do still reside on the disk)
Why would we think he would say anything else? That's his job, and presumably he's surrounded by plots and threats that he needs to counter every day, so his perspective is going to be a little biased.
The important thing is that whenever a policeman or agent says something like this, we respond by thinking "well obviously he would say that" and take a view on whether that is proportionate based on the wider civil liberties consequences. The fault is not that they would want that, everyone always wants more power to do their job more effectively, is that we have weak politicians that grant it too easily.
It means that in order for Reddit to be competitive in hiring, they will need to make a first offer (the fixed salary+benefits) that is at or above the market average. As a jobseeker, I can just look at what they have to offer and take it or leave it. No haggling. No drama. That sounds good to me! I'm decent at negotiating, but I don't enjoy it.
For jobs where negotiating skill is NOT part of the job, the negotiation ban should make hiring decisions better correlate with merit. And generally, I want to be surrounded with people hired for relevant merits, and not just good self-promoters.
Bingo. The only way they can keep competitive is to offer decent salaries *on their own*. I'm fairly good at negotiating, but only after many years and I'd really rather not have to.
Yes and no. The 'new' generation (for any given time) is never as clever or inventive as they think they are, but they generally *are* a little bit inventive and have some level of new perspective to bring. Maybe believing that you're God's gift to knowledge is the fiction we need for progress...
Your posts are a rare moment of intelligent empathy in a thoroughly depressing set of./ comments. Some posts really do bring out the worst aspects of this community.
By lumping 50% of the entire population into one group and blanket accusing them of the same thing, it's rather difficult to take anything you write seriously at all. It just comes over as angry backlash, and no better than the cliched "all men are bastards" call of the recently dumped.
Who is talking about sexual assault? If you give someone consent to take a video of you having sex then you need to beware, you just gave up some of your privacy rights.
I salute your flexibility in bending over backwards to blame the victim. Most people would know the difference between a private recording made between two people and the intentional broadcasting of that material with the intention to harm.
As to wheel chairs needing that rise, if they do they're poorly designed.
Given you've never designed or had to use a wheelchair, your assertion is not very convincing. Making a wheelchair that can go up steep gradients is going to have lots of knock-on effects to the design like weight, size, cost, and since you can't push yourself up such gradients with your arms for any length of time it would be a waste anyway.
I told you, I'd be happy to carry you into the store myself. I'd be happy to push your wheel chair up my ramp. No need for anyone else. I would do it gladly.
Let's assume for a second that you really are that nice (hard to do based on other things you have said, but OK). Do you think it is important for a person to be able to live with dignity? What dignity could there be in a life where you have to ask someone to *carry* you every time you go into a shop... multiple times per day. You would have to find a fine nice person like you to go out of their way *every* time an obstacle is encountered, which in your world would be pretty often.
Isn't that revenue though? Loss of revenue doesn't really count since if you're not making the programme anymore then you won't be spending it, so profit is the thing they will lose.
Good point about screwing with the delivery, though I would assume that the BBC is big enough and has a solid enough reputation that this would be a 'blip' rather than a noticable loss of confidence.
I think we'll see renewed calls for a remote override capability built into airliners, so the ground can take over the plane when pilots become non-responsive or the plane begins to rapidly descend.
Well won't that would be fun when the hackers focus their attention on their new remote-control planes.
Only reason I can think to stick with your stock firmware is that you have to (not available for phone, on a CDMA network where you need to update with a proprietary software item that doesn't work on third party firmwares). I have seven unlock options on my GS3 and prefer to use the "None" option.
Well off the top of my head I could add 'stock tends to be more reliable' and 'it's faff / risk of bricking your phone to replace the firmware'...
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That's a great point but it does seem like a company should have the right to enable GPS tracking for company assets.
You know, it really doesn't. Companies don't feel the need to track every pencil that goes out of their office, the only reason they're tracking the phone is because it's easy and has a person attached to it. If you can't trust your employee to take care of a company asset then you can't trust your employee for much at all.
It is important to note, however, that putting the phone in the Faraday bag emulated loss of signal, instead of loss of power, since the program in the phone reported these conditions differently, and so also were the interpretations of these conditions by management.
OK, you may have got around the problem for you, but other people are still being screwed, and management are still having silly expectations. Having some balls and switching the thing off on your own time is better for everyone.
Do you have any sources for this "breaking it down on age, education, grades, jobs, actual experience (part-time vs full-time, overtime, time on leave) you find that most these differences disappear"?
What I particularly love about the recent use of the phrase "social justice" is that the people using it seem to think it's a negative one. How the hell can you be against social justice? Are you campaigning for social injustice?
I know... I probably shouldn't be here...
*Re-reads my original comment*
Oh, right, yes.
"The right question to ask is, 'am I free to go?'"
Are you not sort of expected to leave if you ask if you're free to go? I don't want to leave, I want to continue doing the legal thing that I'm doing.
Can't speak for conspiracy. Can speak for several friends with different models of iPhone that have seen this exact effect. There doesn't have to be a deliberate conspiracy for it still to happen.
I love the regularity of this type of article, and the complete lack of justification why suddenly *now* it's necessary whereas demonstrably before now it has not been required.
It's not perfect, but the Apple model of effectively forcing old hardware into uselessness (ie becoming so slow with the latest OS) isn't exactly perfect either.
When there's a new version of iOS, I get it the day it's released.
And I have seen every generation of iPhone eventually be upgraded into uselessness because the hardware is too slow to run the operating system. What's worse, because the majority do get upgraded, app developers quickly stop supporting old OS versions and those people who don't upgrade *still* end up with a useless smartphone because the apps stop working. It's not all bread and roses in the iOS model either.
The far better solution is to Disable apps (can be done from the app settings) and then they effectively don't exist to the operating system (though they do still reside on the disk)
Why would we think he would say anything else? That's his job, and presumably he's surrounded by plots and threats that he needs to counter every day, so his perspective is going to be a little biased.
The important thing is that whenever a policeman or agent says something like this, we respond by thinking "well obviously he would say that" and take a view on whether that is proportionate based on the wider civil liberties consequences. The fault is not that they would want that, everyone always wants more power to do their job more effectively, is that we have weak politicians that grant it too easily.
Not a hugely useful comment... Yes of course it isn't bricking every unit, but if it's causing such a serious problem on even 1%, this is a fuck up.
faster cellular networks aren't all that interesting. It will take forever for them to be deployed, and
Now give me an 802.11ZZZ or something that can do just 20Mb/s or so at 10 miles NLOS with non-directional antennas, and you've got something useful.
And, by necessity of physics, massively wasteful of rf frequency. Not sure why you need this, also?
It means that in order for Reddit to be competitive in hiring, they will need to make a first offer (the fixed salary+benefits) that is at or above the market average. As a jobseeker, I can just look at what they have to offer and take it or leave it. No haggling. No drama. That sounds good to me! I'm decent at negotiating, but I don't enjoy it.
For jobs where negotiating skill is NOT part of the job, the negotiation ban should make hiring decisions better correlate with merit. And generally, I want to be surrounded with people hired for relevant merits, and not just good self-promoters.
Bingo. The only way they can keep competitive is to offer decent salaries *on their own*. I'm fairly good at negotiating, but only after many years and I'd really rather not have to.
Yes and no. The 'new' generation (for any given time) is never as clever or inventive as they think they are, but they generally *are* a little bit inventive and have some level of new perspective to bring. Maybe believing that you're God's gift to knowledge is the fiction we need for progress...
Your posts are a rare moment of intelligent empathy in a thoroughly depressing set of ./ comments. Some posts really do bring out the worst aspects of this community.
Women...
By lumping 50% of the entire population into one group and blanket accusing them of the same thing, it's rather difficult to take anything you write seriously at all. It just comes over as angry backlash, and no better than the cliched "all men are bastards" call of the recently dumped.
Who is talking about sexual assault? If you give someone consent to take a video of you having sex then you need to beware, you just gave up some of your privacy rights.
I salute your flexibility in bending over backwards to blame the victim. Most people would know the difference between a private recording made between two people and the intentional broadcasting of that material with the intention to harm.
As to wheel chairs needing that rise, if they do they're poorly designed.
Given you've never designed or had to use a wheelchair, your assertion is not very convincing. Making a wheelchair that can go up steep gradients is going to have lots of knock-on effects to the design like weight, size, cost, and since you can't push yourself up such gradients with your arms for any length of time it would be a waste anyway.
I told you, I'd be happy to carry you into the store myself. I'd be happy to push your wheel chair up my ramp. No need for anyone else. I would do it gladly.
Let's assume for a second that you really are that nice (hard to do based on other things you have said, but OK). Do you think it is important for a person to be able to live with dignity? What dignity could there be in a life where you have to ask someone to *carry* you every time you go into a shop... multiple times per day. You would have to find a fine nice person like you to go out of their way *every* time an obstacle is encountered, which in your world would be pretty often.
Isn't that revenue though? Loss of revenue doesn't really count since if you're not making the programme anymore then you won't be spending it, so profit is the thing they will lose.
Good point about screwing with the delivery, though I would assume that the BBC is big enough and has a solid enough reputation that this would be a 'blip' rather than a noticable loss of confidence.
No I am pretty sure they make more money off Top Gear being a worldwide success then they do off the British TV tax.
You're "pretty sure" are you? You know these sort of mindless random thoughts stated as fact is pretty fucking harmful.
Top Gear worth per year, about £50million
Licence fee collected last year, £3726million
Get a grip.
I think we'll see renewed calls for a remote override capability built into airliners, so the ground can take over the plane when pilots become non-responsive or the plane begins to rapidly descend.
Well won't that would be fun when the hackers focus their attention on their new remote-control planes.
Only reason I can think to stick with your stock firmware is that you have to (not available for phone, on a CDMA network where you need to update with a proprietary software item that doesn't work on third party firmwares). I have seven unlock options on my GS3 and prefer to use the "None" option.
Well off the top of my head I could add 'stock tends to be more reliable' and 'it's faff / risk of bricking your phone to replace the firmware'...
Why do you assume it was the US intelligence agencies that made the decision to make this threat?
It's rather splitting hairs to quibble whether the intelligence agencies or higher up the government chain made the threat...