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  1. Re:It could be worse.... on US Says North Korean Submarine Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't kid yourself, it isn't about any of that, it is about a small gang of psychopaths that have gained control of a larger group of very naive people and those psychopaths know that there can never be peace until they are dead because they have committed so many crimes against humanity that the world will hold them to account if they are captured.

    That describes every Communist or adamantly Socialist regime.

  2. Re:It could be worse.... on US Says North Korean Submarine Missing (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Why? They are not part of a world wide organization hell-bent on subjugating and mercilessly killing people. The Communist Empire has disbanded. It didn't at the time and it was worth-while opposing it. Communism is the largest murderous philosophy to have ever existed (by body count). The 2nd being Fascism and 3rd environmentalism. 50,000 dead compared to how many of their own people North Korea starved by being Communist... Well, that's 500,000 dead North Koreans to save millions South Koreans. 2 million North Koreans died just from "famine" (Communist lingo for mismanagement) just in the 1990s. By comparison, South Korea is one of most technologically advanced countries in the world today. Same people. Just a difference of politics. Yeah, if ever there was a righteous war which went right it was protecting South Korea from the North.

  3. Re:In B4 the union blaming on Hertz Had Sheriffs On Hand the Day It Cut IT (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    yeah, and when laws were enforced, the sheriffs were not in the business of protecting criminals from their victims... well some were. but they risked going to jail themselves. maybe those workers should think about that when they vote for a sheriff or mayor next time. i would argue that this is what happens when we are governed by popular demand instead of the rule of law. the h1b abuses are rampant and ubiquitous and no one even thinks of putting anyone in jail for them. these are managers of major corporations who conspired to lie to immigration officials in order to enable human trafficking. and no criminal charges are even considered. no criminal investigation has been conducted. no grand jury has ever been convened on such charges. all we care about is who gets elected. but what difference does it make if they dont follow the mandates of the offices to which they are elected?

  4. Re:GWX Control Panel stopping it? on Windows 10 Upgrade Reportedly Starting Automatically On Windows 7 PCs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 0

    yeah. if you dont get recommended updates the same way you get critical, you wont get an accidental upgrade even if you do run gwx console. he didnt ask if the console itself can be used to prevent an upgrade.

  5. Re:GWX Control Panel stopping it? on Windows 10 Upgrade Reportedly Starting Automatically On Windows 7 PCs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 0

    you can always prevent it by not getting recommended updates together with critical ones. it's getting rid of gwx running itself altogether that's a mild challenge. but yeah, you can do it using the method above.

  6. Re:so.... on Hertz Had Sheriffs On Hand the Day It Cut IT (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    jesus, don't you watch any hbo reruns? it's line from "Dream On". You don't beat your wife during the election year.

  7. Re:Will Someone Please! on Windows 10 Upgrade Reportedly Starting Automatically On Windows 7 PCs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You don't the authorities to get involved when the technical solution to stop this is so simple. It's all done through task scheduler. Erase the registry keys which mention GWX and the task scheduler won't run telemetry on your pc or call GWX at all. I can see complaining to the law if MS made it impossible to do without some insider knowledge. But when it's right there on the surface (a bunch of tasks scheduled in task scheduler), I'd say complaining about it to the law is like complaining that you don't like the bugs in javascript on some website.

  8. Re:GWX Control Panel stopping it? on Windows 10 Upgrade Reportedly Starting Automatically On Windows 7 PCs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    Just posted the method below in here http://news.slashdot.org/comme.... I guess I shoud mention that you'll need to change the permissions on those registry keys (by first taking ownership). Or you won't be able to erase them.

  9. do this: search your registry for GWX and GWXTriggers. and erase all entries which contain them. Done. Both telemetry and upgrades are ran by taskscheduler based on different triggered events. Task managers keeps the list of the tasks to run and the triggers which schedule them in the registry. On the plus side, you'll probably see a speed up in harddrive access, too. Because the telemetry eats quite a bit of the IO.

  10. Re:ominous sounding title on Hertz Had Sheriffs On Hand the Day It Cut IT (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    how many of those times did the management break the law in laying you off? like they seem to have done in this case.

  11. Re:In B4 the union blaming on Hertz Had Sheriffs On Hand the Day It Cut IT (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    what's right to work have to do with it? unions can't solve this. this is already illegal. the managers conspiring are not going to jail, so why would unions make any difference? they are laying off EVERYONE at hertz... not some IT works. EVERYONE. even if they were all unionized, it wouldn't matter. a strike would have no effect.

  12. Re:Couldn't find any local IT workers on Hertz Had Sheriffs On Hand the Day It Cut IT (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    legal vs illegal only matters if "illegal" ends you in jail. i know of no cases of any manager going to jail for filing fraudulent H1B paperwork. why would you expect a conspiracy (legal term for crime committed in concert my multiple cooperating actors) to commit fraud and acts of human trafficking to get prosecuted?

  13. Re:H-1B? on Hertz Had Sheriffs On Hand the Day It Cut IT (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    umm... you say "loophole", i say "conspiracy" to commit fraud. if only we had a forum to decide which is which. maybe with someone who knows the law presiding over some folks trying to make sense of what's happening. too bad we don't have anything like that. You know that this is exactly why RICO statutes were created. So that the upper management which coordinates an activity each part of which might be legal, but which is illegal when considered in its entirety would be criminal and would mean jail time for those at the top.

  14. Re:H-1B? on Hertz Had Sheriffs On Hand the Day It Cut IT (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    except the laid off workers work in a different company than the one which supplies the H1B slaves. since no one has ever been charged with fraud for doing this shit, they are now brazing engaging in conspiracy to commit fraud to break intent of the law as it was written.

  15. Re:Outsource to IBM? on Hertz Had Sheriffs On Hand the Day It Cut IT (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    and jail time? for conspiracy to commit multiple counts of fraud and human trafficking?

  16. Re:But, but, but.... on Hertz Had Sheriffs On Hand the Day It Cut IT (computerworld.com) · · Score: 0

    go on. i would love for you to explain how increasing taxes would fix this. or how having a multi-tier immigration system is a reduction in regulation.

  17. so.... on Hertz Had Sheriffs On Hand the Day It Cut IT (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    why is no one going to jail for this? If they filing H1B visa applications, they have to state that there no existing US workers who can perform these duties. If they are firing US workers to replace them with H1B visa holders, they are filing fraudulent forms with the Federal Government and they are doing so knowing and with forethought. Filing fraudulent immigration forms is still a criminal offense, isn't it? Working for a corporation only shields them from being sued and losing their property (corporation is liable while employees are not). But it's not a shield from criminal prosecution. And since this is multiple individuals working in concert to accomplish this fraud, it's, by legal definition, a conspiracy. So. Why. Is. No one. Going. To. Jail. For THIS? And since this is done in concert by multiple corporations, it requires prior agreement of those in charge. That means RICO applies. FFS, it's a god damn election year. Is every just coasting? This is the kinds of shit that politicians dream to find in order to make their careers. For every Hillary who takes their bribes, why isn't there some public defendant licking his chops to run for office (to cash by becoming corrupt down the line), but, for now solving an obvious issue that is so easy to use to stir up trouble? Is there really not enough hungry lawyers to pick this up?

  18. Why would anonymous go after Trump? I get that he is a Republican. But Kasich is the candidate who is still in the race and who is still the absolute worst on tech issues. He is openly for forcing tech companies to be slaves of the government and do its bidding when it comes to protecting their customers. If it were up to him, he'd effectively give the government agencies the monkey wrench as the best tool for dealing with encryption (beat em with a monkey wrench until they talk). In fact, even though I am a registered Republican, I would donate money to whoever runs against Kasich in any election (including the next time he runs for governor).

  19. I guess that's one way a politician can announce their retirement. Oh, and why would US government buy products which can be broken into by foreign governments? Is he trying to make America less safe?

  20. Re:Yeeeeeahaaaaaw! on Laid-Off Disney IT Workers Decry Offshoring At Trump Rally (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I like mechanics, but people want numbers.

    Savings rate is much more indicative of economic activity trends (efficiency gains and how much they actually increase economic activity rather than shut down inefficient activity). CPI is calculated on a basket of goods and if more spending goes into goods outside of that basket, then CPI doesn't appear to go up. But savings rate would go up and down regardless of where consumers actually spend their money. So savings rate is a better indicator of CPI than the calculated CPI.

  21. Re:Yeeeeeahaaaaaw! on Laid-Off Disney IT Workers Decry Offshoring At Trump Rally (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    CPI has not been a reliable figure since TIPs were issued. When you have an economic actor who gets to price what they sell based on a calculation they make, it's unreasonable to expect that they will keep that calculation honest.

  22. Re:Trump companies -he's like Disney on Laid-Off Disney IT Workers Decry Offshoring At Trump Rally (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It's silly. You might as well make the argument that people who oppose Social Security should not collect it. Just because you don't like the system, doesn't mean you should not try to take advantage of its benefits. You pay for those benefits one way or another. So you should use them. And Trump has to compete with other businesses which use foreign workers. So he hires them, too. It doesn't mean he likes it. It just means he can't compete with the businesses who are already doing it. The only way to stop it is to make it harder for everyone to replace native workers with foreign ones.

  23. He cut costs by managing to keep the mafia-ridden contractors out of the loop in NYC. That's quite a challenge, btw. The "labor cost" which involves paying a lot of people who don't actually perform any labor is very high.

  24. He wouldn't rip the country apart. He's been successfully building in a city with a very diverse population by managing to get his employees to prioritize their financial success over their prejudices. If he manages to do the same for rest of the country, he will only validate the idea that capitalism is the more moral choice. It brings people together even if they hate each other. He can't say that. But there is plenty of economists who have.

  25. She can't "have" superdelegates yet. Until they actually vote at the convention, their stated preference is just -- a preference. It's not a commitment like it is for the elected delegates.