First, let's be clear: It's recruiters, not employers who are whining that they're not receiving the attention they desire from prospects.
As far as you anecdote, "...Did outstanding work, been with us for a while. But she took a sudden three day unplanned/unannounced absence..." is not a "ghost". That's called "No-Call, No-Show". Completely different animal.
Employees and employers have certain duties to one another; in most cases, the most basic ones are "showing up ready for work" and "paying the employee". Engaging a recruiter in a conversation does NOT imply a duty to continue the conversation. Same thing works the other way around--the recruiter doesn't have a duty to follow up with you about the job you applied for.
I miss my old Trackman Marble FX. GIS for it; I think old ones were going for $100.00 as a collector's item a few years ago. GOFK what one would cost you today.
It put a large ball with lots of intertia in your hand. And by "in your hand", I mean your gripping fingers traversed the center of mass of the ball. It was awesome--You could easily throw the pointer across the screen(s) or tweak pixel by pixel. It was a throwback to the PS2 days, but PS2->USB adapters are easy to get. There were also a few buttons scattered around the device.
If somebody would build a device with modern electronics and that sort of mechanism I'd buy it.
I'd love a way to actually send texts from my computer rather than a way to tell my phone to originate a text message. I spend most of my workday in a lab with internet access, but no signal to my phone. If that's what google is doing, good for them! I'd sign up, even if they charged a fee similar to the service I use now.
But I suspect google hasn't come up with anything new here. Why do I need to scan a QR with my phone? Why is my phone even involved? Because I'm not sending texts from my computer; I'm sending them from my phone. And for the pedantic twit who insists that "you typed it into your computer, thus you sent a text from there". Nope. What left my computer was neither a text message nor an sms. It was just a command for the phone to originate such a message. This would hardly be google "innovating"; only using the old MS "embrace/extend/extinguish" practice. Google gives it away for "free", but of course they're capturing and selling your attention, so it's not really "free".
Anyhow, please somebody explain how I am mistaken here and I can really send sms and text from my computer (rather than from my smart phone, which is powered off in my glove box), and I'll reply with an apology and thanks for enlightening me!
I'd love to be wrong here, but not holding my breath.
tl/dr: A moral hazard exists when corporations profit from deliberately fostering addictive behaviour in the public but are not liable for the damage they cause. Regulation is possible, but the nature of the industry to be regulated makes them resistant to regulation.
Anything that makes me feel different can be an addiction.
Social media and gaming companies have figured this out and done their very best to take advantage of people's ability to become addicted to something. Take cocaine or nicotine for example. As long as nobody is trying to make the thing addictive, there's not much of a problem to the societies where it's used, e.g. First Nations in the Americas. The people with the greatest tendency to become addicts will still become addicts, but most folks will use these medicines for the purpose they were given to people.
But...refine the coca or manipulate the chemistry and packaging of the tobacco and damn near *everybody* now has the chance to become addicted. And if they don't become addicted, change the formula until they do.
The larger problem is not cocaine, tobacco, social media, or gaming. The larger problem is that we, as a society, reward corporations that enslave their users. Dope dealer or casino operator are probably NOT be the career you encourage your children to pursue. You probably tell them those are not honorable lines of work, and encourage them to shun those who make their living that way.
But there is NO social or financial cost to corporations who do the same thing with games, gambling, "likes" and "friends", or even--in the case of Purdue Pharma are literal dope dealers. The economic term for this is "moral hazard".
Recognizing a specific kind of addiction is addressing one instance of the whole class of behaviors that corporations use to manipulate the public. It is a short-term solution that may help an individual today to help his or her self. It does NOTHING to solve the societal problem.
For that, we need feedback to the people or corporations making the decisions. The FDA in its early incarnation was effective at this, but regulatory capture has occurred and now they're just a barrier to entry for competitors to the entrenched players. Similarly for gambling regulators--they started out as good, but have been subverted by the folks they're supposed to regulate. Nevertheless, the fact that regulatory agencies do exist shows that they can contribute to our society without destroying our freedom; in fact they exist to protect us from predatory organizations that would otherwise be far more dangerous to the life, liberty, and property we claim to hold so dear.
We're seeing some inroads with financial addictions (payday lending); we need to apply the same legal and social efforts to those that profit from behavioral addictions. It's much more of a challenge because the organizations we need to regulate are very good at manipulating public behavior. This makes them resistant to legal and social pressure.
I've just stuck with 56. ff is in/usr/bin & updated normally, but 55.0, 56.0, & 52.4.1esr are in ~/opt It's rare (never, actually) that I need to use current. And yeah, noscript is what did it for me.
The more I read about the antics at mozilla the more it seems that 56 is the "last version that doesn't suck"
oldversion.com only seems to go up to 45, but mozilla will still let you download the entire history. Hope somebody mirrors it before they take it away.
I have a car. I can sit in air-conditioned comfort and safety and travel for thousands of miles. The roads are clean, well marked, and safe. Society has seen fit to provide places to buy fuel, & food, and comfortable places to sleep all along the way. While I travel I can stick a device in my ear that lets me have a conversation with my wife, hundreds or thousands of miles away. I'm free to do this whenever I want. I have no more political power than any other citizen and no particularly great wealth. These are just the sorts of things that the average person in the society where I live has access to.
You can probably do the same. If you can't, you know people who can. At least one, for that matter. Hi.
This is just one small example of technical, economic, and social wonders here today. It is a sci-fi dream. Several of them, in fact. If you choose not to step today back for just a moment and realize that we *do* live in our parents' (not grandparents, but parents) dream of utopia, you'd never notice it if we did live in the Star-Trek one.
If you do want to hold the "holy grail" sci-fi dreams, all you need to do is learn to recognize them when they're sitting in your lap. And if those aren't good enough for you, go out and build some that are more to your liking.
The third is the creation of the Absurd Hero, as he called it. A human that exists, acknowledging the Absurd and the apparent meaninglessness of his existence, yet still chooses to exist in spite of this, and in essence justifying his own existence by himself.
The technological singularity hype is merely a manifestation of the second response to the Absurd and as such is philosophical suicide. No proof exists that a singularity will magically solve all of humanity's ills. It is quite likely to destroy us in some way. As such, it is yet another religion humans have developed, in order to lazily scratch the god itch that we all have.
Wow--I never knew there was a name for that. I've always viewed it as simple acceptance of a fact I cannot change: I am not special. In terms of the age of the universe, I began to exist at some point in the very recent past and at some point in the very near future I will again not exist. My existence is utterly insignificant beyond a very few people I meet and objects I touch while I exist. The universe--as a whole--doesn't give a shit about me. And there is not a 'purpose for everything', me included.
I do some work that's useful to people near me. I enjoy my life and make some part of life pleasant for those around me. I am grateful for what I am, what I do, what I have--therefore I am happy and satisfied. I dream about things I can do and sometimes do them; more often fail and do something different next time.
This is not heroic; it's just enlightened self-interest.
A new era in Hollywood Accounting, that is. If the folks (collectively; obviously you can have more than 1 coder on a project) that actually write the code get 1% of gross for longer than the time it takes for Microsoft to gain control of the project I'd be stunned. Heck, I'd be surprised if it happened at all. Maybe to one or two "loss leader" projects so they MS can trot those out and say "You, too can become rich selling magazine subscriptions in your free time and summers".
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Instead of trying to figure out how to get everyone else implement your ideas, how 'bout you get off your ass and start doing it yourself? Society does not exist to jump when you say frog. By asking the question you're just telling us you're a manipulative narcissist.
You advertise something for free or low cost to get (in their case) eyeballs or the ability to legally say it costs some lowball price. You really want to sell the upgraded version, but you can't take away the original offer without pissing off your customers and sometimes the FTC (bait and switch).
If your customers aren't going for the upsell, you just degrade the lowball product until they do.
You can't tax or confiscate cash if you don't know who's got it or how much there is. THAT is the problem.
The same people that decided not to print US denominations larger than $100 would like to see crypto currency disappear, and for the same reasons.
Hiding the most offensive possible data in the currency then deeming it "illegal" is *exactly* the same tactic as testing the money for dope and confiscating the money.
They already do it when the seeds drift. If they can show the benefit of the GE crop has drifted they will assign a value to that benefit and send a lawyer and an invoice.
Assuming "fucked" means it's harmful in some meaningful way beyond the complainant not liking it... My first reaction is it's childish, not "fucked".
Was Huffman's intention to "put words in the mouth" of the poster? Could this sort of thing expose Huffman's victim to some kind of liability for speech (slander, libel, incitement, etc.)? Does this sort of thing detract from the credibility of the fourms?
Yeah...after thinking about it for *just* a few minutes, it seems both childish and "fucked".
Huffman says he considers himself a "troll", but in this situation, he's a bully and guilty of abuse of authority. Certainly not a troll of any pre-September finesse or art.
Legitimate authority--even over a forum that you have created and own--can only be exercised for the benefit of *everyone* (collectively everyone the group--not that it has to be something each and every individual approves of).
Huffman pulled rank to win an argument. He bullied his users and called into question anything anybody posts on his site.
Yah, I'd have to say it's both childish and fucked.
All new laptops get hdd wiped and ubuntu installed at first powerup here, too; specifically because of win10. xp and w7 vms for those applications that gotta have it.
Blunting competition and boosting inequality is their entire function.
The work I do does involve licensing, but as long as somebody in the company has a license on record with the state the rest of us can work under that license. So, the barrier to entry is at the company level: Other companies who don't have licensed personnel on staff can't compete in the same way that we do.
From the "right" side of the barrier, I have no problem with it. If you're on the "wrong" side of the barrier, cross it. Qualify tor the test, study, and pass it. The barrier is NOT that high.
Yep. wish i had mod points. fwiw, typing this on kubuntu 17.04 because 17.10 borks vmware. Hopefully 18.04 will be better, but this makes me consider a different distro when it's time to upgrade.
Most of the "best linux distro for vmware" articles talk about linux as the guest; any ideas on which linux desktop (prefer with kde) also makes a good vmware host?
Fourth option is I block ads and enough* of the rest of you don't--either because you don't know how or you don't care. Yes, "Everybody else can block them, too", but that's irrelevant; as of today, you don't.
Before you cry "no fair", know this: It's too late for "fair" in advertising, and has been since *long* before there was an internet. To the degree that it's profitable to abuse the public- producers, sellers, and advertisers have done exactly that. For millenia. Absent confiscatory fines or jail terms, regulations (and regulatory capture) are simply part of the business. "Fair" in this context is simply an opportunity for the enemy to exploit.
*Enough so it's the operator doesn't care about the last few users.
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First, let's be clear: It's recruiters, not employers who are whining that they're not receiving the attention they desire from prospects.
As far as you anecdote, "...Did outstanding work, been with us for a while. But she took a sudden three day unplanned/unannounced absence..." is not a "ghost". That's called "No-Call, No-Show". Completely different animal.
Employees and employers have certain duties to one another; in most cases, the most basic ones are "showing up ready for work" and "paying the employee".
Engaging a recruiter in a conversation does NOT imply a duty to continue the conversation. Same thing works the other way around--the recruiter doesn't have a duty to follow up with you about the job you applied for.
I miss my old Trackman Marble FX. GIS for it; I think old ones were going for $100.00 as a collector's item a few years ago. GOFK what one would cost you today.
It put a large ball with lots of intertia in your hand. And by "in your hand", I mean your gripping fingers traversed the center of mass of the ball.
It was awesome--You could easily throw the pointer across the screen(s) or tweak pixel by pixel.
It was a throwback to the PS2 days, but PS2->USB adapters are easy to get.
There were also a few buttons scattered around the device.
If somebody would build a device with modern electronics and that sort of mechanism I'd buy it.
We are *all* guilty.
Singling out the folks that dig the stuff out of the ground, clean it up, and bring it to the rest of us is just scapegoating.
I'd love a way to actually send texts from my computer rather than a way to tell my phone to originate a text message. I spend most of my workday in a lab with internet access, but no signal to my phone. If that's what google is doing, good for them! I'd sign up, even if they charged a fee similar to the service I use now.
But I suspect google hasn't come up with anything new here. Why do I need to scan a QR with my phone? Why is my phone even involved? Because I'm not sending texts from my computer; I'm sending them from my phone.
And for the pedantic twit who insists that "you typed it into your computer, thus you sent a text from there". Nope. What left my computer was neither a text message nor an sms. It was just a command for the phone to originate such a message.
This would hardly be google "innovating"; only using the old MS "embrace/extend/extinguish" practice.
Google gives it away for "free", but of course they're capturing and selling your attention, so it's not really "free".
Anyhow, please somebody explain how I am mistaken here and I can really send sms and text from my computer (rather than from my smart phone, which is powered off in my glove box), and I'll reply with an apology and thanks for enlightening me!
I'd love to be wrong here, but not holding my breath.
tl/dr: A moral hazard exists when corporations profit from deliberately fostering addictive behaviour in the public but are not liable for the damage they cause. Regulation is possible, but the nature of the industry to be regulated makes them resistant to regulation.
Anything that makes me feel different can be an addiction.
Social media and gaming companies have figured this out and done their very best to take advantage of people's ability to become addicted to something.
Take cocaine or nicotine for example. As long as nobody is trying to make the thing addictive, there's not much of a problem to the societies where it's used, e.g. First Nations in the Americas. The people with the greatest tendency to become addicts will still become addicts, but most folks will use these medicines for the purpose they were given to people.
But...refine the coca or manipulate the chemistry and packaging of the tobacco and damn near *everybody* now has the chance to become addicted. And if they don't become addicted, change the formula until they do.
The larger problem is not cocaine, tobacco, social media, or gaming. The larger problem is that we, as a society, reward corporations that enslave their users. Dope dealer or casino operator are probably NOT be the career you encourage your children to pursue. You probably tell them those are not honorable lines of work, and encourage them to shun those who make their living that way.
But there is NO social or financial cost to corporations who do the same thing with games, gambling, "likes" and "friends", or even--in the case of Purdue Pharma are literal dope dealers. The economic term for this is "moral hazard".
Recognizing a specific kind of addiction is addressing one instance of the whole class of behaviors that corporations use to manipulate the public.
It is a short-term solution that may help an individual today to help his or her self.
It does NOTHING to solve the societal problem.
For that, we need feedback to the people or corporations making the decisions. The FDA in its early incarnation was effective at this, but regulatory capture has occurred and now they're just a barrier to entry for competitors to the entrenched players. Similarly for gambling regulators--they started out as good, but have been subverted by the folks they're supposed to regulate.
Nevertheless, the fact that regulatory agencies do exist shows that they can contribute to our society without destroying our freedom; in fact they exist to protect us from predatory organizations that would otherwise be far more dangerous to the life, liberty, and property we claim to hold so dear.
We're seeing some inroads with financial addictions (payday lending); we need to apply the same legal and social efforts to those that profit from behavioral addictions. It's much more of a challenge because the organizations we need to regulate are very good at manipulating public behavior. This makes them resistant to legal and social pressure.
No, Dolby is the little "D" on ths goodcasette taps.
The musician you're thinking of is Alton Brown.
I've just stuck with 56. /usr/bin & updated normally, but 55.0, 56.0, & 52.4.1esr are in ~/opt
ff is in
It's rare (never, actually) that I need to use current.
And yeah, noscript is what did it for me.
The more I read about the antics at mozilla the more it seems that 56 is the "last version that doesn't suck"
oldversion.com only seems to go up to 45, but mozilla will still let you download the entire history. Hope somebody mirrors it before they take it away.
Ref here:
https://support.mozilla.org/en...
and from the kb article:
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/fi...
Isn't there a whole galaxy of tort law already on the books?
It seems that any decent programmer would simply use the existing APIs.
For you it will never happen.
I have a car. I can sit in air-conditioned comfort and safety and travel for thousands of miles. The roads are clean, well marked, and safe. Society has seen fit to provide places to buy fuel, & food, and comfortable places to sleep all along the way. While I travel I can stick a device in my ear that lets me have a conversation with my wife, hundreds or thousands of miles away. I'm free to do this whenever I want. I have no more political power than any other citizen and no particularly great wealth. These are just the sorts of things that the average person in the society where I live has access to.
You can probably do the same. If you can't, you know people who can. At least one, for that matter. Hi.
This is just one small example of technical, economic, and social wonders here today.
It is a sci-fi dream. Several of them, in fact.
If you choose not to step today back for just a moment and realize that we *do* live in our parents' (not grandparents, but parents) dream of utopia, you'd never notice it if we did live in the Star-Trek one.
If you do want to hold the "holy grail" sci-fi dreams, all you need to do is learn to recognize them when they're sitting in your lap. And if those aren't good enough for you, go out and build some that are more to your liking.
The third is the creation of the Absurd Hero, as he called it. A human that exists, acknowledging the Absurd and the apparent meaninglessness of his existence, yet still chooses to exist in spite of this, and in essence justifying his own existence by himself.
The technological singularity hype is merely a manifestation of the second response to the Absurd and as such is philosophical suicide. No proof exists that a singularity will magically solve all of humanity's ills. It is quite likely to destroy us in some way. As such, it is yet another religion humans have developed, in order to lazily scratch the god itch that we all have.
Wow--I never knew there was a name for that. I've always viewed it as simple acceptance of a fact I cannot change: I am not special. In terms of the age of the universe, I began to exist at some point in the very recent past and at some point in the very near future I will again not exist. My existence is utterly insignificant beyond a very few people I meet and objects I touch while I exist. The universe--as a whole--doesn't give a shit about me. And there is not a 'purpose for everything', me included.
I do some work that's useful to people near me. I enjoy my life and make some part of life pleasant for those around me. I am grateful for what I am, what I do, what I have--therefore I am happy and satisfied. I dream about things I can do and sometimes do them; more often fail and do something different next time.
This is not heroic; it's just enlightened self-interest.
A new era in Hollywood Accounting, that is.
If the folks (collectively; obviously you can have more than 1 coder on a project) that actually write the code get 1% of gross for longer than the time it takes for Microsoft to gain control of the project I'd be stunned.
Heck, I'd be surprised if it happened at all. Maybe to one or two "loss leader" projects so they MS can trot those out and say "You, too can become rich selling magazine subscriptions in your free time and summers".
No.
Your contract is with the seller. Their supplier is their problem.
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Instead of trying to figure out how to get everyone else implement your ideas, how 'bout you get off your ass and start doing it yourself?
Society does not exist to jump when you say frog.
By asking the question you're just telling us you're a manipulative narcissist.
You advertise something for free or low cost to get (in their case) eyeballs or the ability to legally say it costs some lowball price.
You really want to sell the upgraded version, but you can't take away the original offer without pissing off your customers and sometimes the FTC (bait and switch).
If your customers aren't going for the upsell, you just degrade the lowball product until they do.
You can't tax or confiscate cash if you don't know who's got it or how much there is.
THAT is the problem.
The same people that decided not to print US denominations larger than $100 would like to see crypto currency disappear, and for the same reasons.
Hiding the most offensive possible data in the currency then deeming it "illegal" is *exactly* the same tactic as testing the money for dope and confiscating the money.
the article describes Monsanto's aggressively litigious business practices and cites one of many cases in detail as example.
I thank you for providing a real-world example of the reification fallacy. ;)
Just goes to prove you can learn something from everyone you meet
(for varying values of Monsanto)
They already do it when the seeds drift.
If they can show the benefit of the GE crop has drifted they will assign a value to that benefit and send a lawyer and an invoice.
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Right.
Did you read past the first 4 lines?
"Manipulating the words of your users is fucked,"
Assuming "fucked" means it's harmful in some meaningful way beyond the complainant not liking it...
My first reaction is it's childish, not "fucked".
Was Huffman's intention to "put words in the mouth" of the poster?
Could this sort of thing expose Huffman's victim to some kind of liability for speech (slander, libel, incitement, etc.)?
Does this sort of thing detract from the credibility of the fourms?
Yeah...after thinking about it for *just* a few minutes, it seems both childish and "fucked".
Huffman says he considers himself a "troll", but in this situation, he's a bully and guilty of abuse of authority.
Certainly not a troll of any pre-September finesse or art.
Legitimate authority--even over a forum that you have created and own--can only be exercised for the benefit of *everyone* (collectively everyone the group--not that it has to be something each and every individual approves of).
Huffman pulled rank to win an argument. He bullied his users and called into question anything anybody posts on his site.
Yah, I'd have to say it's both childish and fucked.
All new laptops get hdd wiped and ubuntu installed at first powerup here, too; specifically because of win10.
xp and w7 vms for those applications that gotta have it.
Blunting competition and boosting inequality is their entire function.
The work I do does involve licensing, but as long as somebody in the company has a license on record with the state the rest of us can work under that license. So, the barrier to entry is at the company level: Other companies who don't have licensed personnel on staff can't compete in the same way that we do.
From the "right" side of the barrier, I have no problem with it. If you're on the "wrong" side of the barrier, cross it. Qualify tor the test, study, and pass it. The barrier is NOT that high.
OK, so it's not just me!
find . -iname "*$whatever*" works, but a real windows XP type (blasphemy, I know; get over it) graphical search would be very convenient.
Yep. wish i had mod points.
fwiw, typing this on kubuntu 17.04 because 17.10 borks vmware.
Hopefully 18.04 will be better, but this makes me consider a different distro when it's time to upgrade.
Most of the "best linux distro for vmware" articles talk about linux as the guest; any ideas on which linux desktop (prefer with kde) also makes a good vmware host?
Fourth option is I block ads and enough* of the rest of you don't--either because you don't know how or you don't care.
Yes, "Everybody else can block them, too", but that's irrelevant; as of today, you don't.
Before you cry "no fair", know this: It's too late for "fair" in advertising, and has been since *long* before there was an internet.
To the degree that it's profitable to abuse the public- producers, sellers, and advertisers have done exactly that. For millenia. Absent confiscatory fines or jail terms, regulations (and regulatory capture) are simply part of the business. "Fair" in this context is simply an opportunity for the enemy to exploit.
*Enough so it's the operator doesn't care about the last few users.