Giving them a fake number might not work out the way you expect it to. With the recent disclosure of the Experian compromise, there are reports that the data contains salary history. Perspective employers don't need to ask you what you made, they already have those numbers from credit reporting agencies.
The company I retired from after 33 years viewed any discrepancy between what they knew and found out (via various reporting entities) vs. what they were told by applicants as 'lies', and in most cases refused to hire that person. While some small percentage increase for reported salary was usually permitted, anything more than a few percent was grounds for rejection. One reason being that a large number of people would apply for a single position (I've literally seen hundreds apply for a single job), HR wanted to hire the the cheapest applicant they could, and could easily move on the the next applicant if the one they were looking at wanted (or even previously made) more than the next. Being honest with your previous salary was much more likely to get you in to an interview than misreporting it.
This caused endless problems in the departments that were hiring, usually hiring applicants at rates both lower AND higher than everyone else for open positions.
I've seen that list before, but I suspect that it's not complete. After all the forced upgrades, and all but pointing guns at their 'customers' to force them to upgrade, I wouldn't trust them to tell me the the color of the sky, let alone believe that the list they posted is complete.
Maybe now we'll be able to find out what the telemetry actually sends back to MS and the three-letter agencies. It would also be nice for some to develop a way to completely kill it.
Sirius XM radio since December 2005, and Adobe Photoshop / Lightroom since it became available.
I couldn't afford Photoshop without the CC subscription. I'd rather put pins in my eyes than use Gimp, and Corel PaintShop Pro has color bugs going back many years. I use Photoshop filters, and other hosts just don't work right with them. I also like Photoshop's healing tool, as I'm scanning and editing images that go back to the 1800s.
Sirius XM is one of the few remaining services I can find decent new-age, classical, and folk music that I can listen to while traveling by car, and the no commercials is more than worth it.
I wish I'd read Mervyn Peak's Gormenghast books decades ago, rather than after seeing the BBC TV series first. I like the first two books enough to reread them every couple of years. Peak's use of language is just amazing.
I've been watching this for a long time, every episode is fascinating. They go to some very interesting places, some of which travelers wouldn't even consider. It's obvious from watching this that a small amount of effort to fit in and not be an 'Ugly traveler' goes a long way to making the traveler feel welcome.
I run a self hosted website that is constantly being probed by cable modems, and compromised home and business hosts behind those modems. Some of the compromised PCs are not necessarily the owner's fault either, plus they have no clue to how to secure an ISP provided POS cable modem / router. Allowing these folks to be 'hacked back' will lead to endless grief for the wrong people. I believe that vastly more wrongly suspected 'hackers' will be attacked that the real culprits.
Ans also what happens when the recipient of the reverse hacking is a hospital or medical facility, and someone is harmed? That's a recipe for endless lawsuits.
Check your laptop with a gun in the bag. Luggage with a gun in it get extra special treatment; if one gets lost they just opened themselves up to all sorts of civil and criminal liabilities.
That won't work at the Philly airport, which is famous for guns stolen from checked luggage. Had a cop friend have his gun stolen from a locked gun case.
This rule will also apply to cameras, which will impact the travel industry.
I had a Police lieutenant acquaintance have gun stolen from a locked gun case flying out of Philly to New Orleans ten years ago. They know the theft occurred while still in Philly, yet were still unable to find out who did it, even with all the cameras and surveillance. The case arrived in NO, still locked, but empty.
http://www.warriortalk.com/sho...
It hasn't gotten any better since then.
Also, flying into foreign countries with differing gun laws might not be a good idea.
Not just laptops, but also expensive camera gear. I've got over $5,000 worth of lenses and cameras that I travel with, and my sister-in-law carries about $10,000 worth of gear. This has us seriously rethinking future travel plans, sticking with destinations we can drive to.
We've been using UPS to send packages to our daught-in-law and grandson in Hallettsville TX, as the post office there can't find their address (they use a PO box for stuff that can't be shipped) The post office workers there couldn't find a firehouse if they were standing in front of it, and fire trucks were racing out.
You're missing the idea that this is a three letter agency and data harvesting company wet dream. Now, they don't even need back doors into your desktops, only to the cloud back end.
I've been having the same thing for decades. Loud sounds and noises flash my vision white, which was kind of a safety issue when I worked at a shipyard 40 years ago as a gantry/bridge crane mechanic. Knew it was synesthesia, but didn't realize how common it seems to be.
The only thing we saw in the.XYZ domain, was a drastic increase in spam. It was so much that we added a specific rule to the spam filter to reject connections from any email or host that used.XYZ. The other new TLDs mostly are suffering the same fate, they are full of spammers.
I have collected almost a thousand audio CDs over the past 25 years, and used to think the same thing. They served as masters for the digital copies I keep on my PC. Now I've discovered that a few of them are suffering from visible bit-rot, with the aluminum layer slowly being eaten / corroded in from the edge. It could be because I lived in a heavy urban area (Philly near I95) with lots of diesel exhaust until last year, but I've also taken very good care of them, keeping them in their cases and minimizing handling, but who knows how much longer they'll last.
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Perspective employers...
Are these the ones that look good from a distance, but the closer you get the worse the job appears?
Yeah. It's like working in a carnival fun house mirror maze.
Why not just make up a number?
Giving them a fake number might not work out the way you expect it to. With the recent disclosure of the Experian compromise, there are reports that the data contains salary history. Perspective employers don't need to ask you what you made, they already have those numbers from credit reporting agencies. The company I retired from after 33 years viewed any discrepancy between what they knew and found out (via various reporting entities) vs. what they were told by applicants as 'lies', and in most cases refused to hire that person. While some small percentage increase for reported salary was usually permitted, anything more than a few percent was grounds for rejection. One reason being that a large number of people would apply for a single position (I've literally seen hundreds apply for a single job), HR wanted to hire the the cheapest applicant they could, and could easily move on the the next applicant if the one they were looking at wanted (or even previously made) more than the next. Being honest with your previous salary was much more likely to get you in to an interview than misreporting it. This caused endless problems in the departments that were hiring, usually hiring applicants at rates both lower AND higher than everyone else for open positions.
Watch the movie "Ex Machina" for some examples of what could go wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
No, but it would be a good idea to call the next one "Trump".
Nobody's going to be calling their kids "Trump" anytime soon.
This will likely cause hilarious problems in homes that have old folks who are Pinochle players...
I've seen that list before, but I suspect that it's not complete. After all the forced upgrades, and all but pointing guns at their 'customers' to force them to upgrade, I wouldn't trust them to tell me the the color of the sky, let alone believe that the list they posted is complete.
Maybe now we'll be able to find out what the telemetry actually sends back to MS and the three-letter agencies. It would also be nice for some to develop a way to completely kill it.
Wow?? Really? I wonder when they started doing that in the US?
I was born in 1960, and my birth records include my handprints and footprints.
I was born in 1953, and mine include them as well.
Sirius XM radio since December 2005, and Adobe Photoshop / Lightroom since it became available. I couldn't afford Photoshop without the CC subscription. I'd rather put pins in my eyes than use Gimp, and Corel PaintShop Pro has color bugs going back many years. I use Photoshop filters, and other hosts just don't work right with them. I also like Photoshop's healing tool, as I'm scanning and editing images that go back to the 1800s. Sirius XM is one of the few remaining services I can find decent new-age, classical, and folk music that I can listen to while traveling by car, and the no commercials is more than worth it.
What an ass she is. That comment just insured that she'll never be hired again as a CEO. Burning bridges never goes well.
Unless she's after a job at Google
Or one at Oracle.
I wish I'd read Mervyn Peak's Gormenghast books decades ago, rather than after seeing the BBC TV series first. I like the first two books enough to reread them every couple of years. Peak's use of language is just amazing.
I've been watching this for a long time, every episode is fascinating. They go to some very interesting places, some of which travelers wouldn't even consider. It's obvious from watching this that a small amount of effort to fit in and not be an 'Ugly traveler' goes a long way to making the traveler feel welcome.
I run a self hosted website that is constantly being probed by cable modems, and compromised home and business hosts behind those modems. Some of the compromised PCs are not necessarily the owner's fault either, plus they have no clue to how to secure an ISP provided POS cable modem / router. Allowing these folks to be 'hacked back' will lead to endless grief for the wrong people. I believe that vastly more wrongly suspected 'hackers' will be attacked that the real culprits. Ans also what happens when the recipient of the reverse hacking is a hospital or medical facility, and someone is harmed? That's a recipe for endless lawsuits.
Check your laptop with a gun in the bag. Luggage with a gun in it get extra special treatment; if one gets lost they just opened themselves up to all sorts of civil and criminal liabilities.
That won't work at the Philly airport, which is famous for guns stolen from checked luggage. Had a cop friend have his gun stolen from a locked gun case. This rule will also apply to cameras, which will impact the travel industry.
I had a Police lieutenant acquaintance have gun stolen from a locked gun case flying out of Philly to New Orleans ten years ago. They know the theft occurred while still in Philly, yet were still unable to find out who did it, even with all the cameras and surveillance. The case arrived in NO, still locked, but empty. http://www.warriortalk.com/sho... It hasn't gotten any better since then. Also, flying into foreign countries with differing gun laws might not be a good idea.
Not just laptops, but also expensive camera gear. I've got over $5,000 worth of lenses and cameras that I travel with, and my sister-in-law carries about $10,000 worth of gear. This has us seriously rethinking future travel plans, sticking with destinations we can drive to.
Check Don Lancaster's Guru's Lair website, he's been inventing stuff for decades. http://www.tinaja.com/
We've been using UPS to send packages to our daught-in-law and grandson in Hallettsville TX, as the post office there can't find their address (they use a PO box for stuff that can't be shipped) The post office workers there couldn't find a firehouse if they were standing in front of it, and fire trucks were racing out.
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, and what happens with Ice-nine.
Another product no one asked for or wanted.
You're missing the idea that this is a three letter agency and data harvesting company wet dream. Now, they don't even need back doors into your desktops, only to the cloud back end.
I've been having the same thing for decades. Loud sounds and noises flash my vision white, which was kind of a safety issue when I worked at a shipyard 40 years ago as a gantry/bridge crane mechanic. Knew it was synesthesia, but didn't realize how common it seems to be.
A climate scientist in Texas? What was he thinking?
One word, "Galveston". Maybe he (or she) has family or friends there.
Forget the traffic lights, I want to know when it can talk to the casinos.
The only thing we saw in the .XYZ domain, was a drastic increase in spam. It was so much that we added a specific rule to the spam filter to reject connections from any email or host that used .XYZ. The other new TLDs mostly are suffering the same fate, they are full of spammers.
While will lead directly into Bitch Wednesday, as sysadmins try to recover all the Botched PCs...
I have collected almost a thousand audio CDs over the past 25 years, and used to think the same thing. They served as masters for the digital copies I keep on my PC. Now I've discovered that a few of them are suffering from visible bit-rot, with the aluminum layer slowly being eaten / corroded in from the edge. It could be because I lived in a heavy urban area (Philly near I95) with lots of diesel exhaust until last year, but I've also taken very good care of them, keeping them in their cases and minimizing handling, but who knows how much longer they'll last.