Never heard of her until the Huffington Post ran that story about her abusing her assistants. And I live in the midwest, so you think I would have. Sure that's not Al Franken with a wig?
If I'm on a call with an automated tree (and I'm sufficiently alone), I often let loose a string of angry "old man" profanity while it's listening just to see if I get get auto-routed to the agent. Hasn't happened too often, but it happens (most often with airlines/creditcards).
So many negligence and injury cases are about to get queued up.
Think of the difference of a relies-on-smooth-floors, air-sucking machine moving around your locked home when you're not around vs. a powerful-enough-to-push-through-stiff-grass, blade-slashing machine moving around a neighborhood full of other people's kids and dogs.
>> Western officials say systems of checks and balances in their countries allow for companies to challenge those demands, unlike in China
USA to large tech: hey company with whom we have a large contract - we'd like to see details on X. If you can't show us, that's cool, but don't forget we're a big fan of your services...today anyway
A new offensive cyberwarfare department, staffed with white hat hackers and run by a flag officer, and elevated to it's own branch. The French will call it the white flag ministry.
"Libya has been a war in which some of the Atlantic alliance’s mightiest members did not participate, or did not participate with combat aircraft, like Spain and Turkey....the French finally pulled back their sole nuclear-powered aircraft carrier for overdue repairs and Italy withdrew its aircraft carrier to save money. Only eight of the 28 allies engaged in combat, and most ran out of ammunition, having to buy, at cost, ammunition stockpiled by the United States."
Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees ANDREA FULLER JANUARY 22, 2019 Last summer, employees of Guaranteed Rate Inc. posted a stream of negative reviews about the mortgage broker on Glassdoor, a company-ratings website.
“An American sweatshop,” read a one-star review in June. “Worst company I ever worked for,” read another in July. The company’s rating on Glassdoor, which is determined by employee feedback, fell to 2.6 stars out of 5.
Concerned...
Last summer, employees of Guaranteed Rate Inc. posted a stream of negative reviews about the mortgage broker on Glassdoor, a company-ratings website.
“An American sweatshop,” read a one-star review in June. “Worst company I ever worked for,” read another in July. The company’s rating on Glassdoor, which is determined by employee feedback, fell to 2.6 stars out of 5.
Concerned that negative reviews could hurt recruiting, Guaranteed Rate CEO Victor Ciardelli instructed his team to enlist employees likely to post positive reviews, said a person familiar with his instructions. In September and October these employees flooded Glassdoor with hundreds of five-star ratings. The company rating now sits at 4.1.
Glassdoor has become an important arbiter of employee sentiment in today’s highly competitive job market. A Wall Street Journal investigation shows it can be manipulated by employers trying to sway opinion in their favor.
An analysis of millions of anonymous reviews posted on Glassdoor’s site identified more than 400 companies with unusually large single-month increases in reviews. Some companies, including Elon Musk’s rocket company Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and software giant SAP SE , have had multiple spikes.
During the vast majority of these surges, the ratings were disproportionately positive compared with the surrounding months, the Journal’s analysis shows.
Glassdoor’s problem echoes the challenged faced by other online rating platforms, who are trying to ensure their rankings are real and maintain users’ trust. Amazon.com Inc., local-business site Yelp Inc. and hotel-and-restaurant site TripAdvisor Inc. have all had to fend off attempts to game reviews and ratings.
Glassdoor’s company ratings are a powerful weapon in job recruiting, giving companies an incentive to inflate them. Sought-after workers—the site gets about 60 million users per month, according to web-research firm SimilarWeb—read reviews to help determine where they want to work.
“Glassdoor is the most dominant company reviews website by far,” said Andy Challenger, vice president of outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. He said low ratings can discourage applicants, “particularly at a time like right now, with unemployment at historically low levels when companies are fighting to retain and attract good people.”
In the Journal’s analysis, five-star ratings collectively made up 45% of reviews in the months where the number of reviews jumped, compared with 25% in the six months before and after. While it isn’t possible to determine from the data alone what caused each spike, a statistical test shows the likelihood that so many would skew positive by chance is highly improbable.
Well-known names with large spikes included messaging-app developer Slack Technologies Inc., professional-networking site LinkedIn, health insurer Anthem Inc., household-products maker Clorox Co. and Jack Daniel’s maker Brown-Forman Corp.
Spokespeople for Slack, LinkedIn and Anthem said their companies have encouraged employees to give feedback. A Brown-Forman spokeswoman said it doesn’t have a formal strategy to solicit reviews. Clorox didn’t respond to a request for comment.
>> Guaranteed Rate CEO Victor Ciardelli instructed his team to enlist employees likely to post positive reviews...these employees flooded Glassdoor with hundreds of five-star ratings
So...what's the secret? I thought this was SOP in corporate America.
Sunlight does not regenerate either. Once the elements for fusion are gone and the star cools down, the spent photons won't help you recover the light.
>> Under immense pressure to reduce prison numbers without risking a rise in crime
As I've heard it, it's primarily "reduce prison numbers" because minorities are disproportionally incarcerated. If there's any "rise in crime" discussion it's typically been around the promise that "non-violent" criminals will only continue to commit non-violent crimes like (unattended) car theft, (unattended) home robbery and state-wide drug distribution, and won't escalate crimes that directly threaten or harm anyone.
Exactly my experience, except all my kids were out in the snow staring up at the moon with me as the last sliver of sun-soaked surface winked out of view. (After playing hours of LOZ:BTW they were really excited to see a real blood moon.)
>> Many professors are ditching the traditional writing assignment and instead asking students to expand or create a Wikipedia article on the topic
This is probably the funniest way to troll students that I've heard in a long time.
"Yeah, can you please find an article on which you are knowledgable and for which you can cite sources, or even one which has typos or grammar problems. Go ahead and (snickers) make the appropriate edit, and then I'll check your work next week and give you a grade on what I saw (chuckles)."
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Regarding pronunciation, Klobuchar rhymes with "Frau Blucher" from Young Frankenstein.
Not sure if horses whiny when her name is spoken, though.
AC thinks 06:37PM comes BEFORE 06:32PM. Film at 11.
Because no one cares about Amy Klobuchar. Wake us up when a tier one or tier two candidate jumps in, or at least one from the tech world.
Never heard of her until the Huffington Post ran that story about her abusing her assistants. And I live in the midwest, so you think I would have. Sure that's not Al Franken with a wig?
If I'm on a call with an automated tree (and I'm sufficiently alone), I often let loose a string of angry "old man" profanity while it's listening just to see if I get get auto-routed to the agent. Hasn't happened too often, but it happens (most often with airlines/creditcards).
>> After a year of secret preparations,
Can someone help me square the "open" part of OSS with "a year of secret preparations" please?
I know I wouldn't take a job for just $100K a year.
What was Snopes doing getting in bed with a "doing fact-checking for all of Facebook" assignment for that little money?
>> weed eater string
https://kytrial.com/man-who-was-injured-while-using-trimmer-awarded-5-78-million/
Clearly, they haven't seen men after we wake up in the morning.
>> lawn-mowing robot
So many negligence and injury cases are about to get queued up.
Think of the difference of a relies-on-smooth-floors, air-sucking machine moving around your locked home when you're not around vs. a powerful-enough-to-push-through-stiff-grass, blade-slashing machine moving around a neighborhood full of other people's kids and dogs.
Maybe I should go get that law degree after all.
>> Western officials say systems of checks and balances in their countries allow for companies to challenge those demands, unlike in China
USA to large tech: hey company with whom we have a large contract - we'd like to see details on X. If you can't show us, that's cool, but don't forget we're a big fan of your services...today anyway
A new offensive cyberwarfare department, staffed with white hat hackers and run by a flag officer, and elevated to it's own branch. The French will call it the white flag ministry.
>> WTF does this have to do with going to space?
The aerospace and space-faring capabilities of a country are usually closely coupled. See the USA, USSR and China for examples.
Europe couldn't even scramble planes to bomb Libya...and they want to try to do something in space again?
...the French finally pulled back their sole nuclear-powered aircraft carrier for overdue repairs and Italy withdrew its aircraft carrier to save money. Only eight of the 28 allies engaged in combat, and most ran out of ammunition, having to buy, at cost, ammunition stockpiled by the United States."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/05/nato-lacking-strike-aircraft-libya
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/sunday-review/what-libyas-lessons-mean-for-nato.html
"Libya has been a war in which some of the Atlantic alliance’s mightiest members did not participate, or did not participate with combat aircraft, like Spain and Turkey.
>> Who would think that blocking AWS would block the customers of AWS.
Your tongue is burrowing a hole in your cheek, sir.
Companies Manipulate Glassdoor by Inflating Rankings and Pressuring Employees
ANDREA FULLER JANUARY 22, 2019
Last summer, employees of Guaranteed Rate Inc. posted a stream of negative reviews about the mortgage broker on Glassdoor, a company-ratings website.
“An American sweatshop,” read a one-star review in June. “Worst company I ever worked for,” read another in July. The company’s rating on Glassdoor, which is determined by employee feedback, fell to 2.6 stars out of 5.
Concerned...
Last summer, employees of Guaranteed Rate Inc. posted a stream of negative reviews about the mortgage broker on Glassdoor, a company-ratings website.
“An American sweatshop,” read a one-star review in June. “Worst company I ever worked for,” read another in July. The company’s rating on Glassdoor, which is determined by employee feedback, fell to 2.6 stars out of 5.
Concerned that negative reviews could hurt recruiting, Guaranteed Rate CEO Victor Ciardelli instructed his team to enlist employees likely to post positive reviews, said a person familiar with his instructions. In September and October these employees flooded Glassdoor with hundreds of five-star ratings. The company rating now sits at 4.1.
Glassdoor has become an important arbiter of employee sentiment in today’s highly competitive job market. A Wall Street Journal investigation shows it can be manipulated by employers trying to sway opinion in their favor.
An analysis of millions of anonymous reviews posted on Glassdoor’s site identified more than 400 companies with unusually large single-month increases in reviews. Some companies, including Elon Musk’s rocket company Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and software giant SAP SE , have had multiple spikes.
During the vast majority of these surges, the ratings were disproportionately positive compared with the surrounding months, the Journal’s analysis shows.
Glassdoor’s problem echoes the challenged faced by other online rating platforms, who are trying to ensure their rankings are real and maintain users’ trust. Amazon.com Inc., local-business site Yelp Inc. and hotel-and-restaurant site TripAdvisor Inc. have all had to fend off attempts to game reviews and ratings.
Glassdoor’s company ratings are a powerful weapon in job recruiting, giving companies an incentive to inflate them. Sought-after workers—the site gets about 60 million users per month, according to web-research firm SimilarWeb—read reviews to help determine where they want to work.
“Glassdoor is the most dominant company reviews website by far,” said Andy Challenger, vice president of outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. He said low ratings can discourage applicants, “particularly at a time like right now, with unemployment at historically low levels when companies are fighting to retain and attract good people.”
In the Journal’s analysis, five-star ratings collectively made up 45% of reviews in the months where the number of reviews jumped, compared with 25% in the six months before and after. While it isn’t possible to determine from the data alone what caused each spike, a statistical test shows the likelihood that so many would skew positive by chance is highly improbable.
Well-known names with large spikes included messaging-app developer Slack Technologies Inc., professional-networking site LinkedIn, health insurer Anthem Inc., household-products maker Clorox Co. and Jack Daniel’s maker Brown-Forman Corp.
Spokespeople for Slack, LinkedIn and Anthem said their companies have encouraged employees to give feedback. A Brown-Forman spokeswoman said it doesn’t have a formal strategy to solicit reviews. Clorox didn’t respond to a request for comment.
In some cases,
>> Guaranteed Rate CEO Victor Ciardelli instructed his team to enlist employees likely to post positive reviews...these employees flooded Glassdoor with hundreds of five-star ratings
So...what's the secret? I thought this was SOP in corporate America.
Sunlight does not regenerate either. Once the elements for fusion are gone and the star cools down, the spent photons won't help you recover the light.
Autonomous unicycles. Then they can add automaton mimes to complete the creepy entertainment.
>> Under immense pressure to reduce prison numbers without risking a rise in crime
As I've heard it, it's primarily "reduce prison numbers" because minorities are disproportionally incarcerated. If there's any "rise in crime" discussion it's typically been around the promise that "non-violent" criminals will only continue to commit non-violent crimes like (unattended) car theft, (unattended) home robbery and state-wide drug distribution, and won't escalate crimes that directly threaten or harm anyone.
Exactly my experience, except all my kids were out in the snow staring up at the moon with me as the last sliver of sun-soaked surface winked out of view. (After playing hours of LOZ:BTW they were really excited to see a real blood moon.)
How many security cameras point straight up into the sky?
So will "Programs | Install/Uninstall | Firefox | Uninstall"
Seriously, I'm surprised that "Firefox" is still a front-page brand on Slashdot in 2019.
>> Many professors are ditching the traditional writing assignment and instead asking students to expand or create a Wikipedia article on the topic
This is probably the funniest way to troll students that I've heard in a long time.
"Yeah, can you please find an article on which you are knowledgable and for which you can cite sources, or even one which has typos or grammar problems. Go ahead and (snickers) make the appropriate edit, and then I'll check your work next week and give you a grade on what I saw (chuckles)."
Not exactly what the Internet would have expected.