I work in client computing. What 15 years ago was wandering around with an Office CD is now making sure that App-V Office works on non-persistent virtual machines while settings get captured by a third virtualization service. And making sure that last decade's mouse and keyboard would work has become making sure that users can get into systems from any device, anywhere, over VPN, to the aforementioned virtual systems, without them ever locking themselves out, needing to get to the password reset portal, or making sure the help desk doesn't overload their call volume. Even the proliferation of multiple monitors has left you upgrading Citrix clients and thin device firmwares, all of which connects to another byzantine layer of abstraction.
Wait, what? The filer is out? How many people are down?
According to both their 1974 ruling, and their unanimous ruling now, having to go through security, or up stairs, or into an elevator to get to the 99th floor of your building before you can begin your work shift isn't paid time.
Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. having "up to" 25 minute screenings doesn't make them unconstitutional - it just makes them giant shitbags.
Don't be mad a SCOTUS because ISS are fucking cocks. Place your outrage squarely on their shoulders.
You stick "while armed" in there to paint a pretty picture, but despite what you say, the first offense for nearly all the crimes you list does end up being a slap on the wrist for "normal" people too. Short of the big-time felonies (murder, arson, rape, drug distribution), you can pretty much walk out the door with a fine and probation on almost any first-time crime. Any small felony can be plead to a misdemeanor (or some sort of open-ended, reduced-later felony), and nearly any misdemeanor can get solved with an overnight at intake and a fine. Generally speaking it won't cost you your job either.
I do think police should be held to a higher standard, but let's not pretend that normal people don't skate pretty free on their first offense either.
People who commit crimes should be made to appear and face those crimes in court.
People who make mistakes at work should be trained, corrected, disciplined, and ultimately fired.
There's a parable that gets told in IT circles all the time:
An otherwise good guy makes a bad mistake - one that costs his company a million dollars. When the boss shows up at the employee's desk, the employee sheepishly says, "I understand. I'll save you the trouble and quit before you fire me." The boss is shocked. He says, "Why would I fire you? I just spent a million dollars on your training."
McCoy: [McCoy, masked and in surgical garb, passes an elderly woman groaning on a gurney in the hallway] What's the matter with you? Elderly patient: [weakly] Kidney [pause] Elderly patient: dialysis. McCoy: [geniunely surprised] Dialysis? [musing to himself] McCoy: What is this, the Dark Ages? [He turns back to the patient and hands her a large white pill] McCoy: Here, [pause] McCoy: you swallow that, and if you have any more problems, just call me! [He pats her cheek and leaves]
Ads have always been contextual. There's more ads for luxury items in the suburbs by me than there are for pawn shops, and there's ads for strip-bars in taxi cabs for drunks and traveling businessmen.
While I can't pretend to be immune to desire - I am mostly human - I take all the advertising I see with a heavy grain of salt.
And, even at $2/lb over market price, should that steak arrive for me in a way that I enjoy it (like cooked and delivered on a night they notice I got home late from work or saw me sit in a traffic jam), I might even use that service.
I know I'm being sold to at every stop. I know there's a steak ad on my homepage instead of a tofu ad, and I know it's either a steak from a competitor who wants my business, or it's a steak from my preferred vendor who wants to lock me in....but since I know this, I can make informed decisions about what to do when presented with these ads.
I don't have the level of hubris necessary to say that I'm completely immune to marketing and fashion and trends -- but for the most part I'm an old grumpy man who takes everything with a grain of salt. I can look at the hypothetical steak ad generally recognize when my preferred vendor wants to keep me "theirs" with a deal, and when a competitor is trying to woo me away. I'd rather at least have the extra options presented to me in my preferred categories, because without advertising revenue (or sales of my activities to other data brokers), the services would disappear.
I like Google maps and Waze on top of it. I DNGAF if it knows where I drive to on Wednesday nights (spoiler alert: a poker game). I freely grant the Googles and Facebooks of the world this information in exchange for their services, and in exchange, I view the data they give me with the knowledge of a guy who knows what makes the world go 'round.
While I disagree with the 25-minute screenings, I'm not paid for walking through security, taking the elevator and logging into my workstation either.
SCOTUS merely maintained what was already in the Portal to Portal act: that things relevant to the job itself (e.g. butchers sharpening their knives) got paid, and that security searches were analog to time spent driving to work or taking the a long flight of stairs to your office.
Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. are, unquestionably, a bunch of shit-bags who should move the time-clocks to the other side of the sometimes up-to 25 minute screening machines, but it's not exactly like SCOTUS is out to screw people on this one. Someone in risk management there realized that they'd still be more profitable with the tiny bit of bad press and some legal fees than to pay overtime.
Eat a bag of dicks Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. -- but I don't blame SCOTUS.
I employ a number of services on the internet where I am the product. My activities are sold to the highest bidder.
In return, I get head's up notifications about traffic to places I'm likely about to drive to, and I get useful dinner suggestions when I'm out on the town after 7pm. I accept this trade-off. While I've "souled" out to Google primarily, if I used Facebook more than the necessary evil to coordinate large activities with my friends, I'd happily allow them to show me ads for steaks instead of tofu because the know the reward card attached to my phone number saved $0.99/pound on beef last week -- if they're going to show me ads at all.
Bring it on Google and Facebook. Consolidate all of my data. Have at it. I sure as hell wasn't doing anything with it.
...just keep giving me predictive traffic, weather and restaurant options.
And the value of my time and comfort has nothing to do with "poor math skills."
They're incredibly convenient devices for people who, on a whim, want a cup of coffee, cappuccino, tea, coco, cider or coco, or who, after a dinner party, would like to offer that wide variety of coffee/tea choices to their guests. This is all doubly true for people who like drinking coffee only sparingly, or only like making sure they can offer coffee to their guests.
The same reason that I can't hire someone to brew me fresh coffee for $0.25 on a whim is why I'm not interested in brewing 4 different pots of hot beverages after dinner when I can just throw a $0.62 full retail K-cup (delivered by Amazon) into the machine, with little to no prep or cleanup required.
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I think both sides of the argument are pretty mute anyhow.
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It's one of a small handful of jobs where you're placed, repeatedly, in confrontational situations.
Regardless..I said it once, and I'll say it again: People who commit crimes should pay the price for it.
Perseus?
It's Omicron Persei 8 complaining about the cancellation of Single Female Lawyer.
The problem is it he might as well have posted previous guides all over again. Mostly repeats. This guy loves levitation and puzzles.
http://entertainment.slashdot....
See if you can count how many rehashed items from the 2012 list are in this one...
Oh FFS. Was a google search too hard?
Great news everyone. The iPhone is now the only phone with a non user-serviceable battery.
Trying to what? Dry, I hope.
True.
I work in client computing. What 15 years ago was wandering around with an Office CD is now making sure that App-V Office works on non-persistent virtual machines while settings get captured by a third virtualization service. And making sure that last decade's mouse and keyboard would work has become making sure that users can get into systems from any device, anywhere, over VPN, to the aforementioned virtual systems, without them ever locking themselves out, needing to get to the password reset portal, or making sure the help desk doesn't overload their call volume. Even the proliferation of multiple monitors has left you upgrading Citrix clients and thin device firmwares, all of which connects to another byzantine layer of abstraction.
Wait, what? The filer is out? How many people are down?
I don't blame SCOTUS.
According to both their 1974 ruling, and their unanimous ruling now, having to go through security, or up stairs, or into an elevator to get to the 99th floor of your building before you can begin your work shift isn't paid time.
Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. having "up to" 25 minute screenings doesn't make them unconstitutional - it just makes them giant shitbags.
Don't be mad a SCOTUS because ISS are fucking cocks. Place your outrage squarely on their shoulders.
A pretty well done site. +1 to the guys at 3dhubs.com for putting it together. Very informative.
For all we know, the speculation and guesses in the article are complete misses.
There's nothing even approaching evidence in the Vice article.
And those forfeitures come from taxpayers too, amirite?
So, you mean, like newspaper and TV reporters?
Typically?
Unless your local PD is running at a profit, and making their money from overseas, I'm sure it's more than "typically."
You stick "while armed" in there to paint a pretty picture, but despite what you say, the first offense for nearly all the crimes you list does end up being a slap on the wrist for "normal" people too. Short of the big-time felonies (murder, arson, rape, drug distribution), you can pretty much walk out the door with a fine and probation on almost any first-time crime. Any small felony can be plead to a misdemeanor (or some sort of open-ended, reduced-later felony), and nearly any misdemeanor can get solved with an overnight at intake and a fine. Generally speaking it won't cost you your job either.
I do think police should be held to a higher standard, but let's not pretend that normal people don't skate pretty free on their first offense either.
People who commit crimes should be made to appear and face those crimes in court.
People who make mistakes at work should be trained, corrected, disciplined, and ultimately fired.
There's a parable that gets told in IT circles all the time:
An otherwise good guy makes a bad mistake - one that costs his company a million dollars. When the boss shows up at the employee's desk, the employee sheepishly says, "I understand. I'll save you the trouble and quit before you fire me." The boss is shocked. He says, "Why would I fire you? I just spent a million dollars on your training."
McCoy: [McCoy, masked and in surgical garb, passes an elderly woman groaning on a gurney in the hallway] What's the matter with you?
Elderly patient: [weakly] Kidney
[pause]
Elderly patient: dialysis.
McCoy: [geniunely surprised] Dialysis?
[musing to himself]
McCoy: What is this, the Dark Ages?
[He turns back to the patient and hands her a large white pill]
McCoy: Here,
[pause]
McCoy: you swallow that, and if you have any more problems, just call me!
[He pats her cheek and leaves]
Ads have always been contextual. There's more ads for luxury items in the suburbs by me than there are for pawn shops, and there's ads for strip-bars in taxi cabs for drunks and traveling businessmen.
While I can't pretend to be immune to desire - I am mostly human - I take all the advertising I see with a heavy grain of salt.
Then blame the SCOTUS of 1974, who already decided this case.
And, even at $2/lb over market price, should that steak arrive for me in a way that I enjoy it (like cooked and delivered on a night they notice I got home late from work or saw me sit in a traffic jam), I might even use that service.
I know I'm being sold to at every stop. I know there's a steak ad on my homepage instead of a tofu ad, and I know it's either a steak from a competitor who wants my business, or it's a steak from my preferred vendor who wants to lock me in. ...but since I know this, I can make informed decisions about what to do when presented with these ads.
I don't have the level of hubris necessary to say that I'm completely immune to marketing and fashion and trends -- but for the most part I'm an old grumpy man who takes everything with a grain of salt. I can look at the hypothetical steak ad generally recognize when my preferred vendor wants to keep me "theirs" with a deal, and when a competitor is trying to woo me away. I'd rather at least have the extra options presented to me in my preferred categories, because without advertising revenue (or sales of my activities to other data brokers), the services would disappear.
I like Google maps and Waze on top of it. I DNGAF if it knows where I drive to on Wednesday nights (spoiler alert: a poker game). I freely grant the Googles and Facebooks of the world this information in exchange for their services, and in exchange, I view the data they give me with the knowledge of a guy who knows what makes the world go 'round.
Vote was reasonably even across party lines.
https://www.govtrack.us/congre...
71% of (D) voted for it.
80% or (R) voted for it.
9 congresscritters didn't vote, split 5(D), 4(R).
While I disagree with the 25-minute screenings, I'm not paid for walking through security, taking the elevator and logging into my workstation either.
SCOTUS merely maintained what was already in the Portal to Portal act: that things relevant to the job itself (e.g. butchers sharpening their knives) got paid, and that security searches were analog to time spent driving to work or taking the a long flight of stairs to your office.
Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. are, unquestionably, a bunch of shit-bags who should move the time-clocks to the other side of the sometimes up-to 25 minute screening machines, but it's not exactly like SCOTUS is out to screw people on this one. Someone in risk management there realized that they'd still be more profitable with the tiny bit of bad press and some legal fees than to pay overtime.
Eat a bag of dicks Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. -- but I don't blame SCOTUS.
I employ a number of services on the internet where I am the product. My activities are sold to the highest bidder.
In return, I get head's up notifications about traffic to places I'm likely about to drive to, and I get useful dinner suggestions when I'm out on the town after 7pm. I accept this trade-off. While I've "souled" out to Google primarily, if I used Facebook more than the necessary evil to coordinate large activities with my friends, I'd happily allow them to show me ads for steaks instead of tofu because the know the reward card attached to my phone number saved $0.99/pound on beef last week -- if they're going to show me ads at all.
Bring it on Google and Facebook. Consolidate all of my data. Have at it. I sure as hell wasn't doing anything with it.
Hell, I may even let you read my mail :)
Of course it could, but the state is making it, so I doubt it will.
Convenience =/= Laziness
And the value of my time and comfort has nothing to do with "poor math skills."
They're incredibly convenient devices for people who, on a whim, want a cup of coffee, cappuccino, tea, coco, cider or coco, or who, after a dinner party, would like to offer that wide variety of coffee/tea choices to their guests. This is all doubly true for people who like drinking coffee only sparingly, or only like making sure they can offer coffee to their guests.
The same reason that I can't hire someone to brew me fresh coffee for $0.25 on a whim is why I'm not interested in brewing 4 different pots of hot beverages after dinner when I can just throw a $0.62 full retail K-cup (delivered by Amazon) into the machine, with little to no prep or cleanup required.
Make sure you rotate by -360 degress in the Southern Hemisphere or the electrons will get tangled.
I live in Pontianak Indonesia, you insensitive clod.