The people who like systemd tend to like the features.......the people who dislike it, the architecture
phantomfire;
6) The user asked for a feature request to be added to machinectl, that would retain that environment variable
7) Lennart said, "sure, no problem." (Which shows why systemd is gaining usage, when people want a feature, he adds it)
If I had to place a bet on the fate of architectural perfection vs. responsiveness to users, I'd have to go with the users.
For the last generation or so laws that target Holocaust denial are almost entirely about targeting critics of Israel. I've read that 97% of the inhabitants of Gaza are antisemites. Authoritative poll.
The thing I least love about Slashdot is the instant mod-up of unsupported assertions. The defining quality of the geek to my way of thinking is fact-based decision-making.
Sustainable Development of Croatia (ORaH) has two members in the Croatian parliament, neither of whom won their elections as ORaH candidates.
The party was formed in 2013. Its leader is a former Minister of Environmental Protection and Nature and Social Democratic Party MP Mirela Holy. She won the seat in the Sabor as a member of Social Democratic Party from which she left after some disagreements over party leadership. On 23 July 2015 it was announced that an independent MP Mladen Novak is joining ORaH. He is a former Croatian Labourists --- Labour Party member who left the party after it started negotiating to join Kukuriku coalition.
Between January 1990, when political parties were legalized in Croatia, and March 2015, 264 political parties were registered, out of which 118 have since been struck from the register.
Social Democrats 61 seats. [Center-left] Croatian Democratic Union 44 seats. [Center-right] Croatian Labourists - Labour 6 seats.
This from Winged Cat struck me as more than a little strange:
"Government funding" not being a realistic path, given their demonstrated history with regard to projects that might actually give cheap power to the masses.
The are vast regions in the US that have benefited enormously from governmental investment in electric power.
Even by Depression standards, the Tennessee Valley was economically dismal in 1933. Thirty percent of the population was affected by malaria, and the average income was only $639 per year, with some families surviving on as little as $100 per year. Much of the land had been farmed too hard for too long, eroding and depleting the soil. Crop yields had fallen along with farm incomes. The best timber had been cut, with another 10% of forests being burnt each year.
TVA was designed to modernize the region, using experts and electricity to combat human and economic problems. TVA developed fertilizers, taught farmers ways to improve crop yields and helped replant forests, control forest fires, and improve habitat for fish and wildlife. The most dramatic change in Valley life came from TVA-generated electricity. Electric lights and modern home appliances made life easier and farms more productive. Electricity also drew industries into the region, providing desperately needed jobs.
I'm sure I'm not the first person in the world to have come up with the idea of putting a Dollar Store in an airport
The airport doesn't want you and the rent will break you.
Instead of setting rental prices by square foot, the entities that control airport retail --- which include the Port Authority, the airlines and management firms like Hudson that act on behalf of owners --- set a base rent monthly and then increase it once retailers hit specified sales figures. Sources declined to give those base rents.
One analyst told The Real Deal that a general rule of thumb for airport-retail pricing is to add $10 to the average per-square-foot asking rent of ground-floor retail in a particular city.
There are a few exceptions, but the majority of airports across the country have instituted pricing regulations. Operators are required to adhere to a fair-pricing policy to ensure that the traveling public, airport and airline employees, as well as visitors to the airport will not encounter prices that are higher than those for similar products and services outside the airport.
Background checks, employee compensation, and related issues.
Hiring employees for an airport RMU or kiosk will take longer than it would for a mall location.
Considerations include: Security badging and TSA background checks. Processing times vary by airport, but it typically takes about two weeks for each employee to be processed.
Compensation rates for airport retail employees are traditionally higher than those of mall employees.
Retailers' operating hours are based on flight activity to best service the traveling public (may be open longer than traditional malls; scheduling flexibility is key for employers and employees)
Airport retailers operate 365 days a year.
Many airports have limited on-site parking facilities for employees, so additional commuting time may be required by employees.
Demographics.
Shopping is at best a secondary consideration for airport visitors.
Airport shoppers may have higher stress levels due to travel anxieties and an unfamiliarity with the airport.
The customer demographic in the airport is more affluent than at malls due to the influx of business and international travelers.
Due to the fast-paced environment of the airport, many shoppers are not in the proper mindset to browse
Product sizes and quantities are major concerns for airport shoppers
Airport shoppers frequently buy gifts for those at home, so the gift market is the primary product category they seek.
Integrated adds and product placement are older than the silent films of 1915
There was a long-standing joke about the 50s television series based on Cary Grant's "Topper" that you couldn't see the actors through the clouds of tobaccco smoke.
Exactly how vital can they be if the fucking computer still works with no Internet connection?
How many computers outside a secured corporate or governmental network are currently operating without at least part-time access to the Internet?
How many computers on the corporate intranet aren't collecting similar data for internal use --- and sharing some of that data with Microsoft to improve the performance of both clients and servers?
You realize its only a matter of time until companies splice ads into the content itself so filtering will be impossible.
Integrated adds and protect placement are older than the silent films of 1915. The single most important thing that differentiates modern American radio and television from that of the 1940s and 1950s is the separation of sponsorship and production --- which Is why I am no great fan of add blocking.
SF is the art of the technical class. The central message is "You can fix it or create wonders by applying intelligence and dilligence to the problem."
Mainstream fiction is the propaganda of control of the general population: The central message is futility: "Do what the authorities tell you to do."
Ray Bradbury and Robert Heinlein entered the mainstream because they wrote entertaining, well-written. stories for adults with engaging themes, three-dimensional characters and a minimum of techno-babble.
Heinlein, of course, could be remarkably observant and cynical about "the technical class" and its own desire for control --- not to mention its complicity in providing the means to control others.
I have often thought it a pity that he didn't live long enough to see the geek in full flight. The privileged adolescent who suddenly discovers that he can't have everything his own way.
I didn't really start to dislike Microsoft until they started forcing Internet Explorer.
You don't need much force when the browser is free, feature-rich, and looks and feels like a native Windows app.
I first came across IE 4 while still on dial-up and IE was bundled as part of an Internet suite on CD complete with a handsome paperback manual. $12 + shipping, as I recall, when Netscape Navigator would set you back $50,
I think the problem may be less with Firefox than a return to the re-invigorated default web browser. Edge for Windows 10, Safari for OSX, Chrome for Chrome.
That, and the app and touch-oriented world of mobile use.
Whether the browser allows developers to implement the most aggressive ad blockers possible. I want everything blocked, images removed, content rerendered, flash rewritten, etc. -- whatever it takes to remove ad, remove ad blocker warnings, skip screens, and so on. Everywhere.
So who pays for content and distribution?
Slashdot content is plain text and user-generated. You cannot get much cheaper than that. But it is on the auction block again because it is showing piss-poor returns given the traffic it generates.
40% of visitors here are based in India, where Slashdot is a top 300 site. slashdot.org
Amazon. Netflix, and others are growing in presence and power because they have a secure revenue stream. They also have multiple digital distribution channels outside the web browser and the add blocker.
It's like a super-high-altitude aircraft, at ground level
In other words, moving in air so super-thin and close to a vacuum as makes no difference.
2. The difficulties of providing oxygen through masks are no greater in a hyperloop capsule than in an airplane.
The oxygen mask aboard an airplane is good for ten minutes. The airplane flies in open air not inside a sealed pipeline mounted on pylons and elevated rather high above the ground.
This isn't anything like the Channel Tunnel which has a parallel and built-in escape route.
3. A hyperloop capsule is a giant air ram which has to work to move its air to behind the vehicle
No movement, no compression.
Repressurization can surely be done far faster than an airplane can descend in altitude.
As the bird flies, the distance between San Diego and San Francisco is 450 miles.
No one is certain, but it's thought that a China Airlines 747 might have gone supersonic during an emergency descent in 1985. According to the Wikipedia article, "Altitude decreased 10,000 ft (3,000 m) within only twenty seconds." and "They had descended 30,000 ft (9,100 m) in under two and a half minutes".
So what happens when the capsule springs a leak and you cannot bre ..a..
I think it is long past time someone addressed the problem of evacuation seriously.
The passenger mask aboard an aircraft has a ten minute supply of oxygen. The Time of Useful Consciousness (TUC) in a near-vacuum is measured in seconds. Oxygen Use in Aviation
Nothing says rust like a steel barge that floats in salt water and breathes salt air.
It is perhaps worth adding that here in the Northeast there is a powerful movement towards reclaiming the industrial waterfront for parks and green space.
For the curious, 95 examples of used barges for sale:
The add copy should be read like you were shopping for a second-hand boat in a "Monkey Island" game. Used Deck Barges
Of course, that's primarily because censoring viewpoints tales quite a bit of work and the more reflective an echo chamber you want to built the more censoring there is to be done.
a comment posted to one of the most notoriously inbred and self-satisfied sites on the web. where the echo chamber rings the loudest.
One day I just removed flash from my tween kid's computer, which means no more flash games, causing much weeping and wailing for a few days.
This is still Slashdot, right?
The site where posters are always claiming that a kid can work around any block you put on his PC?
The site where posters complain long and loudly about parents who refuse to let their kids explore the Internet on their own and shape it to their own needs and purpose? The site where posters praise HTML5 to the skies as an all-around replacement for Flash?
You can tell a lot about a man by the way he treats those at the very bottom of the pile.
Those with few --- if any --- choices left to them.
Workers said they were forced to endure brutal heat inside the sprawling warehouse and were pushed to work at a pace many could not sustain. Employees were frequently reprimanded regarding their productivity and threatened with termination, workers said. The consequences of not meeting work expectations were regularly on display, as employees lost their jobs and got escorted out of the warehouse. Such sights encouraged some workers to conceal pain and push through injury lest they get fired as well, workers said.
During summer heat waves, Amazon arranged to have paramedics parked in ambulances outside, ready to treat any workers who dehydrated or suffered other forms of heat stress. Those who couldn't quickly cool off and return to work were sent home or taken out in stretchers and wheelchairs and transported to area hospitals. And new applicants were ready to begin work at any time.
An emergency room doctor in June called federal regulators to report an "unsafe environment" after he treated several Amazon warehouse workers for heat-related problems. The doctor's report was echoed by warehouse workers who also complained to regulators, including a security guard who reported seeing pregnant employees suffering in the heat.
In a better economy, not as many people would line up for jobs that pay $11 or $12 an hour moving inventory through a hot warehouse. But with job openings scarce, Amazon and Integrity Staffing Solutions, the temporary employment firm that is hiring workers for Amazon, have found eager applicants in the swollen ranks of the unemployed.
This time last year, online retailer Amazon.com had ambulances parked outside its Breinigsville warehouse complex on hot days, with emergency medical personnel ready to take workers suffering from heat injuries to nearby hospitals.
Today, Amazon warehouse workers say the facility is refreshingly cool when it's hot and muggy outside. The company recently installed 40 roof-top air conditioners in its 615,000-square-foot warehouse, part of a $52 million investment in cooling its warehouses around the country.
The dramatic change comes nine months after an investigation by The Morning Call revealed difficult working conditions in the Lehigh Valley facility. Workers interviewed said they were pushed to work at dizzying rates in brutal heat. The heat index, a real-feel measure that considers heat and humidity, surpassed 100 degrees in the warehouse multiple times last year and sometimes exceeded 110, according to reports filed with the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
The company installed temporary air conditioning units last year after federal workplace safety regulators began inspecting the facility. But workers said parts of the warehouse, particularly its upper levels, remained unbearably hot even after the temporary air conditioning was installed.
Amazon gave water, fruit and popsicles to workers on hot days and relaxed its attendance rules on some days to let workers leave early, though they would lose pay.
The Morning Call obtained warehouse building permits using Pennsylvania's Right-to-Know Law. Those reveal that Amazon first sought permits to install temporary air conditioning last July, several weeks after warehouse workers and an emergency room doctor who treated some of them for heat stress complained to federal regulators about conditions...and a contractor sought permits to install permanent air conditioning in early March.
21/2 months before Bezos announced at an annual shareholders meeting May 24 that the company [was]
If they track you at the network level, just use a proxy or VPN to an address that looks like it's on-task, or is too vague to get a sense of what exactly it is...f they're keylogging, set up a VM...
The problem with gaming the system is that you become over-confident and careless.
I think that as an employer I would be profoundly wary of the geek who seems to be drawing on his bag of tricks to gain access and privileges denied to others in the workplace.
Bad for morale, bad for disvipline and security.
I don't think I would wait for an annual performance review to deal with the problem.
In the US, in order to win a defamation case, with the exception of defamation per se (allegations of unchastity, allegations of a loathsome disease, allegations of a crime of moral turpitude, allegations injurious to trade, profession, or business), one has to prove actual damages. Even under the most strict of interpretations, the comment that Reid Sagehorn made could not be construed as defamation.
Expand the tweet to say "Well, yes, I did have sex with my high school teacher."
Tell me why this isn't defamation per se. There is nothing in the world he could possibly have said that was more likely to destroy the teacher's career and reputation.
---- and, no, it isn't enough to claim afterwards that it was all in fun.
One of the worst examples was the kids school that Disney sued. Disney falsely claimed that by giving away or by charging minimal values, it opened them up to law suits from other locations demanding the same treatment. After it happened, Universal gave that school - for free - the use of their characters - Yogi Bear, Scooby Doo, Flintstones, etc. That happened in 1989.
Disney demanded that the unauthorized 5-foot-high painted figures of Disney characters on the walls of Very Important Babies Daycare, Good Godmother Daycare, and Temple Messianique (all in Hallandale, Florida) be removed for valid business reasons: infringements must be fought in order to keep trademarks intact; other Disney character licensees would have grounds to object if Disney provided inexpensive (or free) licenses to the centers (which are, after all, profit-making enterprises); and the use of Disney characters falsely suggested Disney's affiliation with the day care facilities.
Universal, still smarting from the early opening of Disney's studio-themed park... saw in the day care controversy a way to seize some publicity for themselves and give Disney a bad name in Florida as part of the bargain. Accordingly, Universal Studios Florida and Hanna-Barbera Productions offered the centers the use of characters from their own cartoons, such as Scooby-Doo, the Flintstones, the Jetsons, and Yogi Bear.
This was a clever publicity stunt for Universal, but I don't think it has ever shown that Universal really allowed their characters to be used without a license.
Simulated UIs in movies and TV, on the other hand, just have to look good, and feed whatever plot information is relevant to the audience. This means things are done that really wouldn't work in a real UI.
But isn't feeding relevant information to the user in an easily readable form the core function of any UI?
Slashdot Mirror
The people who like systemd tend to like the features.......the people who dislike it, the architecture
phantomfire;
6) The user asked for a feature request to be added to machinectl, that would retain that environment variable
7) Lennart said, "sure, no problem." (Which shows why systemd is gaining usage, when people want a feature, he adds it)
If I had to place a bet on the fate of architectural perfection vs. responsiveness to users, I'd have to go with the users.
For the last generation or so laws that target Holocaust denial are almost entirely about targeting critics of Israel.
I've read that 97% of the inhabitants of Gaza are antisemites. Authoritative poll.
The thing I least love about Slashdot is the instant mod-up of unsupported assertions. The defining quality of the geek to my way of thinking is fact-based decision-making.
The party was formed in 2013. Its leader is a former Minister of Environmental Protection and Nature and Social Democratic Party MP Mirela Holy. She won the seat in the Sabor as a member of Social Democratic Party from which she left after some disagreements over party leadership. On 23 July 2015 it was announced that an independent MP Mladen Novak is joining ORaH. He is a former Croatian Labourists --- Labour Party member who left the party after it started negotiating to join Kukuriku coalition.
Sustainable Development of Croatia
Between January 1990, when political parties were legalized in Croatia, and March 2015, 264 political parties were registered, out of which 118 have since been struck from the register.
Social Democrats 61 seats. [Center-left]
Croatian Democratic Union 44 seats. [Center-right]
Croatian Labourists - Labour 6 seats.
List of political parties in Croatia
"Government funding" not being a realistic path, given their demonstrated history with regard to projects that might actually give cheap power to the masses.
The are vast regions in the US that have benefited enormously from governmental investment in electric power.
Even by Depression standards, the Tennessee Valley was economically dismal in 1933. Thirty percent of the population was affected by malaria, and the average income was only $639 per year, with some families surviving on as little as $100 per year. Much of the land had been farmed too hard for too long, eroding and depleting the soil. Crop yields had fallen along with farm incomes. The best timber had been cut, with another 10% of forests being burnt each year.
TVA was designed to modernize the region, using experts and electricity to combat human and economic problems. TVA developed fertilizers, taught farmers ways to improve crop yields and helped replant forests, control forest fires, and improve habitat for fish and wildlife. The most dramatic change in Valley life came from TVA-generated electricity. Electric lights and modern home appliances made life easier and farms more productive. Electricity also drew industries into the region, providing desperately needed jobs.
Tennessee Valley Authority
I'm sure I'm not the first person in the world to have come up with the idea of putting a Dollar Store in an airport
The airport doesn't want you and the rent will break you.
Instead of setting rental prices by square foot, the entities that control airport retail --- which include the Port Authority, the airlines and management firms like Hudson that act on behalf of owners --- set a base rent monthly and then increase it once retailers hit specified sales figures. Sources declined to give those base rents.
One analyst told The Real Deal that a general rule of thumb for airport-retail pricing is to add $10 to the average per-square-foot asking rent of ground-floor retail in a particular city.
High-end airport retailers bring in big bucks for owners
Price controls.
There are a few exceptions, but the majority of airports across the country have instituted pricing regulations. Operators are required to adhere to a fair-pricing policy to ensure that the traveling public, airport and airline employees, as well as visitors to the airport will not encounter prices that are higher than those for similar products and services outside the airport.
Background checks, employee compensation, and related issues.
Hiring employees for an airport RMU or kiosk will take longer than it would for a mall location.
Considerations include: Security badging and TSA background checks. Processing times vary by airport, but it typically takes about two weeks for each employee to be processed.
Compensation rates for airport retail employees are traditionally higher than those of mall employees.
Retailers' operating hours are based on flight activity to best service the traveling public (may be open longer than traditional malls; scheduling flexibility is key for employers and employees)
Airport retailers operate 365 days a year.
Many airports have limited on-site parking facilities for employees, so additional commuting time may be required by employees.
Demographics.
Shopping is at best a secondary consideration for airport visitors.
Airport shoppers may have higher stress levels due to travel anxieties and an unfamiliarity with the airport.
The customer demographic in the airport is more affluent than at malls due to the influx of business and international travelers.
Due to the fast-paced environment of the airport, many shoppers are not in the proper mindset to browse
Product sizes and quantities are major concerns for airport shoppers
Airport shoppers frequently buy gifts for those at home, so the gift market is the primary product category they seek.
Airport Retail 101: Your Top 15 FAQs Answered
I could go on and on like this, but you get the general idea.
Integrated adds and product placement are older than the silent films of 1915
There was a long-standing joke about the 50s television series based on Cary Grant's "Topper" that you couldn't see the actors through the clouds of tobaccco smoke.
MS basically said "everyone saying they don't like vista is wrong/a troll/ignorant/etc"... remember that?
I am looking at an Insider build of Windows which, for all practical purposes, has restored the Aero desktop.
Exactly how vital can they be if the fucking computer still works with no Internet connection?
How many computers outside a secured corporate or governmental network are currently operating without at least part-time access to the Internet?
How many computers on the corporate intranet aren't collecting similar data for internal use --- and sharing some of that data with Microsoft to improve the performance of both clients and servers?
You realize its only a matter of time until companies splice ads into the content itself so filtering will be impossible.
Integrated adds and protect placement are older than the silent films of 1915. The single most important thing that differentiates modern American radio and television from that of the 1940s and 1950s is the separation of sponsorship and production --- which Is why I am no great fan of add blocking.
The Tet offensive in 1968, which garnered a lot of negative media attention in the US, effectively broke the back of the NVA.
The Tet offensive wasn't supposed to happen.
It struck like a thunderbolt, destroying whatever credibility the American military and government had back home.
SF is the art of the technical class. The central message is "You can fix it or create wonders by applying intelligence and dilligence to the problem."
Mainstream fiction is the propaganda of control of the general population: The central message is futility: "Do what the authorities tell you to do."
Ray Bradbury and Robert Heinlein entered the mainstream because they wrote entertaining, well-written. stories for adults with engaging themes, three-dimensional characters and a minimum of techno-babble.
Heinlein, of course, could be remarkably observant and cynical about "the technical class" and its own desire for control --- not to mention its complicity in providing the means to control others.
I have often thought it a pity that he didn't live long enough to see the geek in full flight. The privileged adolescent who suddenly discovers that he can't have everything his own way.
I didn't really start to dislike Microsoft until they started forcing Internet Explorer.
You don't need much force when the browser is free, feature-rich, and looks and feels like a native Windows app.
I first came across IE 4 while still on dial-up and IE was bundled as part of an Internet suite on CD complete with a handsome paperback manual. $12 + shipping, as I recall, when Netscape Navigator would set you back $50,
Let's focus solely on Firefox.
I think the problem may be less with Firefox than a return to the re-invigorated default web browser. Edge for Windows 10, Safari for OSX, Chrome for Chrome.
That, and the app and touch-oriented world of mobile use.
Whether the browser allows developers to implement the most aggressive ad blockers possible. I want everything blocked, images removed, content rerendered, flash rewritten, etc. -- whatever it takes to remove ad, remove ad blocker warnings, skip screens, and so on. Everywhere.
So who pays for content and distribution?
Slashdot content is plain text and user-generated. You cannot get much cheaper than that. But it is on the auction block again because it is showing piss-poor returns given the traffic it generates.
40% of visitors here are based in India, where Slashdot is a top 300 site. slashdot.org
Amazon. Netflix, and others are growing in presence and power because they have a secure revenue stream. They also have multiple digital distribution channels outside the web browser and the add blocker.
The fact that this is so long means that by default it's too much for newbies.
This post about privacy for newbies has drawn a bare 60 responses as I write. Six have been modded +3 or higher, including your own.
This is the best the pro-encryption side can offer:
"I'll be the first to agree that GnuPG is a usability nightmare. " "Anything is better than nothing."
In my humble opinion, if you don't have anything usable, you don't have anything at all.
It's like a super-high-altitude aircraft, at ground level
In other words, moving in air so super-thin and close to a vacuum as makes no difference.
2. The difficulties of providing oxygen through masks are no greater in a hyperloop capsule than in an airplane.
The oxygen mask aboard an airplane is good for ten minutes. The airplane flies in open air not inside a sealed pipeline mounted on pylons and elevated rather high above the ground.
This isn't anything like the Channel Tunnel which has a parallel and built-in escape route.
3. A hyperloop capsule is a giant air ram which has to work to move its air to behind the vehicle
No movement, no compression.
Repressurization can surely be done far faster than an airplane can descend in altitude.
As the bird flies, the distance between San Diego and San Francisco is 450 miles.
No one is certain, but it's thought that a China Airlines 747 might have gone supersonic during an emergency descent in 1985. According to the Wikipedia article, "Altitude decreased 10,000 ft (3,000 m) within only twenty seconds." and "They had descended 30,000 ft (9,100 m) in under two and a half minutes".
How rapidly can a commercial aircraft descend?
So what happens when the capsule springs a leak and you cannot bre . .a..
I think it is long past time someone addressed the problem of evacuation seriously.
The passenger mask aboard an aircraft has a ten minute supply of oxygen. The Time of Useful Consciousness (TUC) in a near-vacuum is measured in seconds. Oxygen Use in Aviation
Death comes quickly.
As originally conceived, a Hyperloop capsule would pack in 28 people in a space about four feet wide and four feet tall. Beyond the hype of Hyperloop: An analysis of Elon Musk's proposed transit system
It would be difficult to imagine a space more claustrophobic and an invitation to panic and offering less room for maneuver this side of the Hunley .
Nothing says rust like a steel barge that floats in salt water and breathes salt air.
It is perhaps worth adding that here in the Northeast there is a powerful movement towards reclaiming the industrial waterfront for parks and green space.
For the curious, 95 examples of used barges for sale:
The add copy should be read like you were shopping for a second-hand boat in a "Monkey Island" game. Used Deck Barges
Of course, that's primarily because censoring viewpoints tales quite a bit of work and the more reflective an echo chamber you want to built the more censoring there is to be done.
a comment posted to one of the most notoriously inbred and self-satisfied sites on the web. where the echo chamber rings the loudest.
One day I just removed flash from my tween kid's computer, which means no more flash games, causing much weeping and wailing for a few days.
This is still Slashdot, right?
The site where posters are always claiming that a kid can work around any block you put on his PC?
The site where posters complain long and loudly about parents who refuse to let their kids explore the Internet on their own and shape it to their own needs and purpose? The site where posters praise HTML5 to the skies as an all-around replacement for Flash?
Those with few --- if any --- choices left to them.
Workers said they were forced to endure brutal heat inside the sprawling warehouse and were pushed to work at a pace many could not sustain. Employees were frequently reprimanded regarding their productivity and threatened with termination, workers said. The consequences of not meeting work expectations were regularly on display, as employees lost their jobs and got escorted out of the warehouse. Such sights encouraged some workers to conceal pain and push through injury lest they get fired as well, workers said.
During summer heat waves, Amazon arranged to have paramedics parked in ambulances outside, ready to treat any workers who dehydrated or suffered other forms of heat stress. Those who couldn't quickly cool off and return to work were sent home or taken out in stretchers and wheelchairs and transported to area hospitals. And new applicants were ready to begin work at any time.
An emergency room doctor in June called federal regulators to report an "unsafe environment" after he treated several Amazon warehouse workers for heat-related problems. The doctor's report was echoed by warehouse workers who also complained to regulators, including a security guard who reported seeing pregnant employees suffering in the heat.
In a better economy, not as many people would line up for jobs that pay $11 or $12 an hour moving inventory through a hot warehouse. But with job openings scarce, Amazon and Integrity Staffing Solutions, the temporary employment firm that is hiring workers for Amazon, have found eager applicants in the swollen ranks of the unemployed.
Inside Amazon's Warehouse: Lehigh Valley workers tell of brutal heat, dizzying pace at online retailer [2011]
This time last year, online retailer Amazon.com had ambulances parked outside its Breinigsville warehouse complex on hot days, with emergency medical personnel ready to take workers suffering from heat injuries to nearby hospitals.
Today, Amazon warehouse workers say the facility is refreshingly cool when it's hot and muggy outside. The company recently installed 40 roof-top air conditioners in its 615,000-square-foot warehouse, part of a $52 million investment in cooling its warehouses around the country.
The dramatic change comes nine months after an investigation by The Morning Call revealed difficult working conditions in the Lehigh Valley facility. Workers interviewed said they were pushed to work at dizzying rates in brutal heat. The heat index, a real-feel measure that considers heat and humidity, surpassed 100 degrees in the warehouse multiple times last year and sometimes exceeded 110, according to reports filed with the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
The company installed temporary air conditioning units last year after federal workplace safety regulators began inspecting the facility. But workers said parts of the warehouse, particularly its upper levels, remained unbearably hot even after the temporary air conditioning was installed.
Amazon gave water, fruit and popsicles to workers on hot days and relaxed its attendance rules on some days to let workers leave early, though they would lose pay.
The Morning Call obtained warehouse building permits using Pennsylvania's Right-to-Know Law. Those reveal that Amazon first sought permits to install temporary air conditioning last July, several weeks after warehouse workers and an emergency room doctor who treated some of them for heat stress complained to federal regulators about conditions...and a contractor sought permits to install permanent air conditioning in early March.
21/2 months before Bezos announced at an annual shareholders meeting May 24 that the company [was]
If they track you at the network level, just use a proxy or VPN to an address that looks like it's on-task, or is too vague to get a sense of what exactly it is...f they're keylogging, set up a VM...
The problem with gaming the system is that you become over-confident and careless.
I think that as an employer I would be profoundly wary of the geek who seems to be drawing on his bag of tricks to gain access and privileges denied to others in the workplace.
Bad for morale, bad for disvipline and security.
I don't think I would wait for an annual performance review to deal with the problem.
In the US, in order to win a defamation case, with the exception of defamation per se (allegations of unchastity, allegations of a loathsome disease, allegations of a crime of moral turpitude, allegations injurious to trade, profession, or business), one has to prove actual damages. Even under the most strict of interpretations, the comment that Reid Sagehorn made could not be construed as defamation.
Expand the tweet to say "Well, yes, I did have sex with my high school teacher."
Tell me why this isn't defamation per se. There is nothing in the world he could possibly have said that was more likely to destroy the teacher's career and reputation.
---- and, no, it isn't enough to claim afterwards that it was all in fun.
One of the worst examples was the kids school that Disney sued. Disney falsely claimed that by giving away or by charging minimal values, it opened them up to law suits from other locations demanding the same treatment. After it happened, Universal gave that school - for free - the use of their characters - Yogi Bear, Scooby Doo, Flintstones, etc. That happened in 1989.
Disney demanded that the unauthorized 5-foot-high painted figures of Disney characters on the walls of Very Important Babies Daycare, Good Godmother Daycare, and Temple Messianique (all in Hallandale, Florida) be removed for valid business reasons: infringements must be fought in order to keep trademarks intact; other Disney character licensees would have grounds to object if Disney provided inexpensive (or free) licenses to the centers (which are, after all, profit-making enterprises); and the use of Disney characters falsely suggested Disney's affiliation with the day care facilities.
Universal, still smarting from the early opening of Disney's studio-themed park... saw in the day care controversy a way to seize some publicity for themselves and give Disney a bad name in Florida as part of the bargain. Accordingly, Universal Studios Florida and Hanna-Barbera Productions offered the centers the use of characters from their own cartoons, such as Scooby-Doo, the Flintstones, the Jetsons, and Yogi Bear.
Daycare Center Murals
This was a clever publicity stunt for Universal, but I don't think it has ever shown that Universal really allowed their characters to be used without a license.
The day care centers in question all appear to be defunct. Hallandale, FL Child Care Centers
This is what happens when you aren't paying attention to the licensing of your product: Flintstones Bedrock City in Arizona on Sale for $2 Million, Brontosaurus Included
Because I love quirky roadside attractions, I hope someone does make this place nice again. If not, $5 is a fair price for some rabbit hunting.
I dunno, a lot of us natives love the creepy charm. I've only been once, but would love to go again were there less risk of tetanus.
Simulated UIs in movies and TV, on the other hand, just have to look good, and feed whatever plot information is relevant to the audience. This means things are done that really wouldn't work in a real UI.
But isn't feeding relevant information to the user in an easily readable form the core function of any UI?