Kids live in a world even more arbitrary and capricious than that of adults. This is especially true in primary and secondary school. Why, then, would they develop reasoning skills? Those that do end up challenging authority and getting arbitrarily slapped down, so there's negative incentives as well as a lack of positive ones.
Unfortunately, due to some misplaced punctuation, everyone on the Do Not Kill registry was accidentally added to the Kill list. Our programmers are working hard to correct this error, and we extend our greatest sympathies to the relatives of those who have accidentally been killed already.
That's if you have the rather ethnocentric view that democracy is the only way a country's government can be legitimate.
Sorry, Mr. Shill of the Chinese Regime, you can't have it both ways. You can't blather on about how the US is opposing democracy in the WTO, then suddenly decide that democracy isn't all that important when talking about th member countries. If it's "ethnocentric" to insist on democracy at a national level, it's just as "ethnocentric" to insist on "one country, one vote" at the international level.
Would you leave work to go to your bank during your work day?
Yes. The notary is only in during my working hours, so when else would I go to get something notarized? (fortunately the bank is literally across the street)
Do you accept personal courier packages at work too? Would you be upset if the building's security guard -- or mail desk -- checked what was inside if you did?
As much as I hate the buzzword, my employer has had serious "APT" problems. Most of the trojan comms used to get out via HTTP, and now much of it uses HTTPS. If we don't inspect HTTPS, how are we supposed to detect our IP getting stolen and hauled out the door? And given how many sites use SSL by default, how are we supposed to detect and block exploit delivery over SSL from Blackhole et al?
I'd be willing to bet that my employer has had even more serious "APT" problems. As in "hit the mainstream newspapers" serious. And they're not that draconian.
You can't be secure unless you control your egress. If you just let https streams go anywhere with no visibility into their content you might as well just set the firewall to allow all out bound connections. If there is ANY concern about information as an asset, you must intercept and decrypt https.
Really? So every company at all which considers information an asset has HTTPS proxied or blocked? I find that.. unlikely.
The cry of necessity is often one of tyrants, petty and otherwise.
These actions seem wrong. You should follow your IT's rules, and if they're getting in the way, complain to your boss about it and let him deal with it. If the customer can't get the data and walks away from the deal, no problem: just blame the IT department and their policies.
In theory, that works. In practice, your customer gets pissed off, you get the blame, and IT is sheltered because they're not in the same chain of responsibility. Unless the customer is big enough, in which case both you and the IT people get the blame, but that's cold comfort.
If your customer really IS big enough, you call in a C-level and have them direct IT to find a way to make it work. This is risky, though; it tends to piss off the executives who feel that this sort of thing is what they have employees for.
Just because the Internet made it easier to do online banking, does not mean you can do it on company time and resources. People used to take time to handle their personal affairs, and it was not even possible to do so at work.
Banks used to keep bankers hours (10am - 3pm), which normal working hours completely overlapped. So personal banking HAD to be handled during working hours. If you were important enough, you simply had your secretary (yes, paid by the company) handle it. Or your wife might handle it. If you could do neither, you had to skip lunch or take time off to handle it. Far fewer people have secretaries nowadays, and even then, it's generally frowned upon to ask them to do personal errands. And for married people, often both spouses work. You have to consider all the changes when setting a policy, not just one in isolation.
Wait, your banking is online, but it has to be done during business hours? Are they using mechanical turks on the other end?
I've had occasions where I had to do banking from work during business hours, because the other people I was dealing with -- mortgage companies in several cases(and I was relocating for the job, so it was even work-related) and a credit card fraud detection department on another occasion -- were only available during business hours.
However, I'm paranoid and the company I work for certainly has the technical capability to snoop on machines they control, even if they likely wouldn't do it, so I used my personal laptop over their "guest" internet connection.
The legal costs in defending a single hostile workplace complaint suit can easily exceed the cost of the monitoring system, and the company faces even greater loses if they lose the suit.
Clearly, then, it's time for those of us who oppose such monitoring to start suing over it (whether or not there is a chance to win), just so the incentives don't push the employer towards evil whether they like it or not.
Well, PvNP is mostly interesting because it's unsolved. If back at the dawn of computing theory some pioneer proved P!=NP, the problem would be a mere footnote (and if they proved P=NP, the field would be very different). But the notion of algorithmic complexity classes is pretty important, and I'd be suspicious of a computer science degree program which didn't include them.
$100 degrees and the ability to download information right into our brains will devalue a degree to the point where you're punished for not having one.
We're already at that point with degrees which cost $50,000+. A reduction of that to $100 would be a step forward.
I've got a bachelors degree and 20+ years of experience in software development. I need a masters degree in CS like I need a third eye in the center of my forehead. Yet I see a lot of jobs out there demanding the Masters nowadays, and with applicant tracking systems being the way they are, that means if you don't have one your resume/application will be discarded before ever being seen by a human being. A $100 Masters would be just the ticket to avoid that. (Sure, it wouldn't be accredited... these tracking systems wouldn't know that)
This is like the auto manufacturer welding your hood shut.
If they could make a very reliable car which got 200mpg @ 90mph with no regular maintenance needed at the cost of nothing being repairable by the user, I'd think that was great.
There's a difference between welding the hood shut just to increase profits (e.g.locked bootloaders) and doing it as an engineering tradeoff.
You do know that when a toddler tells her daddy she loves him, she's just sucking up, right?
Anyway, this is a problem with doing anything through an intermediary -- any time a dispute arises, the intermediary reacts to protect itself, not you. Same thing could happen if the app were somehow sold in a box at Best Buy. Of course, Apple gives you no choice but to sell the app that way. And IMO they're a bunch of wimps for not at least waiting for a preliminary injunction; if they got sued, getting a ruling that an app store is not liable for any unknowing or disputed patent violations would be valuable to them.
H1-Bs can't "take their talents elsewhere" anymore so than L-1s can. Their visa ties them to a particular place of employment. They only get some freedom if they apply for a green card, and even then at the final stage of processing. But the same also applies to L-1.
H-1Bs are transferrable if the new employer is willing to sponsor. Personally I hope the GP was telling the truth; stripping the H-1B body shops of their few good people might actually cause their clients to realize they're getting screwed.
Not legally. They are *required* to pay me what the market price is for my area (there's a.gov website for that).
There are so many H-1Bs in tech that H-1Bs set the market price. Messing around with titles can provide the rest. But even if there weren't a price advantage, the reduced mobility associated with a visa worker is worth a lot to employers.
This is fine, they should present their own point of view. The evidence suggests however, that police brutality exists and that often there is no persecution of the perpetrators â" sometimes they even drop investigations against police and instead charge the victims with resisting arrest.
Sometimes? That's their first move, to charge with resisting arrest. Sometimes they'll argue that covering your head with your hands to ward off their blows counts as resisting... and the judges buy it.
On behalf of all H1B visa holders, I'd like to say the following:
Sir, they're not hiring me only because they can afford to pay me less, they're hiring me because I do a better job, for less money and you can't compete with me.
Mister, if you're not in the top 5% of H-1Bs, they're hiring you because they can pay you less and you have far lower job mobility. If you are in the top 5%, welcome, but you might want to look around at your fellows -- they ain't all that bright. (Neither are most Americans, but the H-1B visa isn't supposed to be for the incompetent.)
While you were playing Call of Duty on your XBOX, I was taking Calculus 1 as part of my curriculum in *high school*.
Slow learner, eh?
I'm not certain I believe you're actually an H-1B holder; while it's true that a lot of people who learned English overseas speak and especially write it more grammatically than a native American English speaker, your message lacks the additional formality which comes with that. Perhaps you've just been here a while.
But scientists worried it represented a whole new way for invasive species of seaweed, crabs and other marine organisms to break the earth's natural barriers and further muck up the West Coast's marine environments.
Tsunamis have been happening for a few billion years, and moving stuff around for just as long. Scientists realize that.
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You can have russotto.net when you pry it from my cold, dead, Dell.
(so probably middle of next week)
Unfortunately, the choices are the Ferengi, the Kardassians, and Kodos the Executioner. Or some combination of the three (such as the "Kardashians").
Kids live in a world even more arbitrary and capricious than that of adults. This is especially true in primary and secondary school. Why, then, would they develop reasoning skills? Those that do end up challenging authority and getting arbitrarily slapped down, so there's negative incentives as well as a lack of positive ones.
Unfortunately, due to some misplaced punctuation, everyone on the Do Not Kill registry was accidentally added to the Kill list. Our programmers are working hard to correct this error, and we extend our greatest sympathies to the relatives of those who have accidentally been killed already.
Sorry, Mr. Shill of the Chinese Regime, you can't have it both ways. You can't blather on about how the US is opposing democracy in the WTO, then suddenly decide that democracy isn't all that important when talking about th member countries. If it's "ethnocentric" to insist on democracy at a national level, it's just as "ethnocentric" to insist on "one country, one vote" at the international level.
Yes. The notary is only in during my working hours, so when else would I go to get something notarized? (fortunately the bank is literally across the street)
Yes, and yes.
I'd be willing to bet that my employer has had even more serious "APT" problems. As in "hit the mainstream newspapers" serious. And they're not that draconian.
Really? So every company at all which considers information an asset has HTTPS proxied or blocked? I find that.. unlikely.
The cry of necessity is often one of tyrants, petty and otherwise.
In theory, that works. In practice, your customer gets pissed off, you get the blame, and IT is sheltered because they're not in the same chain of responsibility. Unless the customer is big enough, in which case both you and the IT people get the blame, but that's cold comfort.
If your customer really IS big enough, you call in a C-level and have them direct IT to find a way to make it work. This is risky, though; it tends to piss off the executives who feel that this sort of thing is what they have employees for.
Banks used to keep bankers hours (10am - 3pm), which normal working hours completely overlapped. So personal banking HAD to be handled during working hours. If you were important enough, you simply had your secretary (yes, paid by the company) handle it. Or your wife might handle it. If you could do neither, you had to skip lunch or take time off to handle it. Far fewer people have secretaries nowadays, and even then, it's generally frowned upon to ask them to do personal errands. And for married people, often both spouses work. You have to consider all the changes when setting a policy, not just one in isolation.
I've had occasions where I had to do banking from work during business hours, because the other people I was dealing with -- mortgage companies in several cases(and I was relocating for the job, so it was even work-related) and a credit card fraud detection department on another occasion -- were only available during business hours.
However, I'm paranoid and the company I work for certainly has the technical capability to snoop on machines they control, even if they likely wouldn't do it, so I used my personal laptop over their "guest" internet connection.
Clearly, then, it's time for those of us who oppose such monitoring to start suing over it (whether or not there is a chance to win), just so the incentives don't push the employer towards evil whether they like it or not.
Well, PvNP is mostly interesting because it's unsolved. If back at the dawn of computing theory some pioneer proved P!=NP, the problem would be a mere footnote (and if they proved P=NP, the field would be very different). But the notion of algorithmic complexity classes is pretty important, and I'd be suspicious of a computer science degree program which didn't include them.
We're already at that point with degrees which cost $50,000+. A reduction of that to $100 would be a step forward.
I've got a bachelors degree and 20+ years of experience in software development. I need a masters degree in CS like I need a third eye in the center of my forehead. Yet I see a lot of jobs out there demanding the Masters nowadays, and with applicant tracking systems being the way they are, that means if you don't have one your resume/application will be discarded before ever being seen by a human being. A $100 Masters would be just the ticket to avoid that. (Sure, it wouldn't be accredited... these tracking systems wouldn't know that)
Do you speak Mandarin Chinese?
They, unlike you, think their accounts can't be tied to their real identities.
If they could make a very reliable car which got 200mpg @ 90mph with no regular maintenance needed at the cost of nothing being repairable by the user, I'd think that was great.
There's a difference between welding the hood shut just to increase profits (e.g.locked bootloaders) and doing it as an engineering tradeoff.
You do know that when a toddler tells her daddy she loves him, she's just sucking up, right?
Anyway, this is a problem with doing anything through an intermediary -- any time a dispute arises, the intermediary reacts to protect itself, not you. Same thing could happen if the app were somehow sold in a box at Best Buy. Of course, Apple gives you no choice but to sell the app that way. And IMO they're a bunch of wimps for not at least waiting for a preliminary injunction; if they got sued, getting a ruling that an app store is not liable for any unknowing or disputed patent violations would be valuable to them.
H-1Bs are transferrable if the new employer is willing to sponsor. Personally I hope the GP was telling the truth; stripping the H-1B body shops of their few good people might actually cause their clients to realize they're getting screwed.
There are so many H-1Bs in tech that H-1Bs set the market price. Messing around with titles can provide the rest. But even if there weren't a price advantage, the reduced mobility associated with a visa worker is worth a lot to employers.
Sometimes? That's their first move, to charge with resisting arrest. Sometimes they'll argue that covering your head with your hands to ward off their blows counts as resisting... and the judges buy it.
This is just an article designed to make stupid people feel better about themselves.
Mister, if you're not in the top 5% of H-1Bs, they're hiring you because they can pay you less and you have far lower job mobility. If you are in the top 5%, welcome, but you might want to look around at your fellows -- they ain't all that bright. (Neither are most Americans, but the H-1B visa isn't supposed to be for the incompetent.)
Slow learner, eh?
I'm not certain I believe you're actually an H-1B holder; while it's true that a lot of people who learned English overseas speak and especially write it more grammatically than a native American English speaker, your message lacks the additional formality which comes with that. Perhaps you've just been here a while.
Tsunamis have been happening for a few billion years, and moving stuff around for just as long. Scientists realize that.
Just obnoxious drunks on the bus/train. Assuming the bus driver isn't drunk, which happens from time to time.
Just the hellish crush of people on the train.
Just ticket lines.
Still paying for them, just through taxes.