But... but... Think of the shareholders... If the company can't turn everything they do into a rental business, how are they going to make their quarterly profit numbers to satisfy the market and allow the Execs to keep getting their bonuses... If they can protect this business by using and corrupting the legal system, all the better...
Seems like many (if not all) companies no longer care about the long term stability of their company. They have all become so obsessed with short term profits that you have to wonder if any of them care at all about the 'big picture'?
Unless there's an ironclad agreement in place that I have to turn over all security credentials 'in my brain' after my termination (and I would never agree to such an agreement), my ex-employer is going to pay dearly for that information. They should have made sure that somebody else had access to this data BEFORE they fired him. I don't know enough background information about this particular case to know if the guy is really just an asshat but I don't like this trend that system / network administrators are responsible for any type of knowledge share AFTER they have been terminated, without any type of compensation.
Sending data to both ear pieces means that both ear pieces are master, this gives you the ability to use one while the other stays charged and switch them when the first one dies, not possible if one of them was a slave. This is how I would use them, provided they are comfortable and don't fall out of the ear as easily as the current earbuds do.
If they had paid the employees then the payroll costs would be an expense so the net effect for the company is the same. Donating the money to charity makes them look nicer but has the downside of pissing off the employees.
It is specially ironic considering how dems went after Trump after he insinuated wouldn't accept the election results.
Don't take me wrong, I'm terrified about the prospect of the orange sexist taking office as much as anyone else, but he won the elections. These talks about having the EC changing their vote, or recounts are delusional.
It's not ironic at all. The democrats weren't the ones that started the recount process, it was a third party candidate after reading a study that showed a marked discrepancy in votes between paper districts and e-voting districts. Regardless of the outcome of a recount, if a recount is what it takes for people to finally accept the results of the election then that's a good thing.
if we'd hovered over his house to ogle his teenage daughter
I never read anything that indicated the drone was 'ogling' the daughter.
I have two UAVs and use them for real estate aerial photography and to take pictures of people's houses for them (It's something that people do up here in Nova Scotia). I have to sometimes fly over other people property to get the correct viewpoint or angle and I only need permission to take off or land on somebody's property. If they have an issue with anything I'm doing they have the right to contact the RCMP. This has happened to me twice. On both occasions I showed the officer my documentation and insurance and the matter was dropped.
I think that people should be required to register their UAVs in the States, it will go a long way in ensuring that people understand what they can and can't do with their UAVs. People should also STOP calling them 'drones' because of the negative connotations with that word, it's instantly associated with spying which is NOT a good thing.
if they're asking for a summary judgement then the defendant hasn't responded yet. The most likely scenario is that the coffee maker in question knew what they were doing was wrong, closed shop when they received the first notice and now they're selling coffee using the next great internet meme.
I do pretty much the same thing. Any call coming in that isn't in my contact list goes directly to VM. My mobile provider has a nice VM to text service so I get to scan the text of the message and if it looks legit I'll either listen to the VM or call back. All spam numbers go into my blocked list. The number of spam or robo calls I get is pretty low now.
Could someone wrap up in a few words how you could scam money from people who want to SELL something?
The most common scam aimed at sellers is the potential buyer (scammer) sends you an email that they want the item but they're out of town and will have their shipping company pick the item up. You're selling a guitar for $500, they tell you they'll send you a check for $550 to cover the guitar plus the $50 to give to their shipping company when the pick up the item. They send you a check for $650 and an email that the check was accidentally sent for the wrong amount. They ask you to cash the check at your bank and then Western Union the remaining $100 to them. Your bank will most likely 'clear' the check in 3-5 business days so you THINK the check is good because the money is in your account. You send them their 'extra' $100. 4 days later you check your bank account to find that the $650 deposit was reversed because it was in fact NOT a good check.
Yes, companies ARE required to keep private medical information secure but whether or not the company THOUGHT their secure location extended to the directory where the patient data was is irrelevant. The data was unencrypted and freely accessible via an anonymous ftp server. The company should be penalized for allowing this to happen, NOT the user who found the exposed ftp server and informed the company that the records were freely available.
This is getting ridiculous, what else would a phone do but make actual phone calls. The methodology Apple uses in the iPhone to make a phone call can't be THAT much different than every other phone manufacturer that they should be singled out for violating some insanely broad patent. Apple should use some of that cash it has stockpiled and stomp the trolls into the ground.
Taxing income alone is a horrible idea. I have a client (IT Consulting) that due to digital media tax credits actually operate at close to a loss. If they were taxed on the several million dollars in revenue they take in they would be forced to close their doors.
Blame all the discount travel sites. Putting a plane in the air is expensive but nobody wants to shoulder that burden, instead they want discount flights where more and more people are packed in like cattle cars, every option costs more and more money and then people do nothing but complain about the quality of their flight or the service.
I worked for a manufacturing facility in CT that had several offices as well as an actual manufacturing plant. During the summer and other peak usage times, the local power company would give us massive reductions in cost or provide credits of tens of thousands of dollars, JUST to turn off half of the fluorescent lights in the offices for at least 4 hours.
Where I live now, the local pulp mill can generate power with residual steam that normally runs the paper machines. During high load times when the power company pays them more, they will actually STOP producing paper because its more profitable to generate electricity on those days.
I was a long term contractor at a rather large international company that recently outsourced all their IT, which included application development, to an India based company.
I've had to deal with the client and the new support company several times over the last year and I agree that the mindset is completely different. They tend to work in teams of 2 or 3 with only one person doing any actual work at any given time. I'd love to say that the this results in either increased productivity or a better code base but I haven't seen any examples of that.
This is also the first thing that popped into my head when I read the story. H1-B workers are only supposed to be brought in if there are no American workers that are capable of doing the job available. If that's so then why are you letting the current workers go but keeping them on retainer? Surely they are capable of doing the job if you are keeping them on retainer, thus the H1-B workers is in violation of the intent of the H1-B program.
This looks like an incredible opportunity to take legal action against the entire program and expose it for what it really is, a Visa loophole exploited by American companies to screw higher paying US workers.
I've been a consultant for close to 20 years and I'm AMAZED by the decisions made by high level executives based solely on a sales pitch or based on the advice of a family member or friend that 'knows about computers and stuff'.
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But... but... Think of the shareholders... If the company can't turn everything they do into a rental business, how are they going to make their quarterly profit numbers to satisfy the market and allow the Execs to keep getting their bonuses... If they can protect this business by using and corrupting the legal system, all the better...
Seems like many (if not all) companies no longer care about the long term stability of their company. They have all become so obsessed with short term profits that you have to wonder if any of them care at all about the 'big picture'?
And then Nvidia will complain when sales start to slump...
Unless there's an ironclad agreement in place that I have to turn over all security credentials 'in my brain' after my termination (and I would never agree to such an agreement), my ex-employer is going to pay dearly for that information. They should have made sure that somebody else had access to this data BEFORE they fired him. I don't know enough background information about this particular case to know if the guy is really just an asshat but I don't like this trend that system / network administrators are responsible for any type of knowledge share AFTER they have been terminated, without any type of compensation.
Unfortunately the crime has expired. :)
Nice try but the statute of limitations no longer applies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
In many cases, this could invalidate the survey because the presence of law enforcement by itself changes the way people drive.
Sending data to both ear pieces means that both ear pieces are master, this gives you the ability to use one while the other stays charged and switch them when the first one dies, not possible if one of them was a slave. This is how I would use them, provided they are comfortable and don't fall out of the ear as easily as the current earbuds do.
If they had paid the employees then the payroll costs would be an expense so the net effect for the company is the same. Donating the money to charity makes them look nicer but has the downside of pissing off the employees.
It is specially ironic considering how dems went after Trump after he insinuated wouldn't accept the election results.
Don't take me wrong, I'm terrified about the prospect of the orange sexist taking office as much as anyone else, but he won the elections. These talks about having the EC changing their vote, or recounts are delusional.
It's not ironic at all. The democrats weren't the ones that started the recount process, it was a third party candidate after reading a study that showed a marked discrepancy in votes between paper districts and e-voting districts. Regardless of the outcome of a recount, if a recount is what it takes for people to finally accept the results of the election then that's a good thing.
if we'd hovered over his house to ogle his teenage daughter
I never read anything that indicated the drone was 'ogling' the daughter.
I have two UAVs and use them for real estate aerial photography and to take pictures of people's houses for them (It's something that people do up here in Nova Scotia). I have to sometimes fly over other people property to get the correct viewpoint or angle and I only need permission to take off or land on somebody's property. If they have an issue with anything I'm doing they have the right to contact the RCMP. This has happened to me twice. On both occasions I showed the officer my documentation and insurance and the matter was dropped.
I think that people should be required to register their UAVs in the States, it will go a long way in ensuring that people understand what they can and can't do with their UAVs. People should also STOP calling them 'drones' because of the negative connotations with that word, it's instantly associated with spying which is NOT a good thing.
if they're asking for a summary judgement then the defendant hasn't responded yet. The most likely scenario is that the coffee maker in question knew what they were doing was wrong, closed shop when they received the first notice and now they're selling coffee using the next great internet meme.
I was going to bring this up as a response as well.
I'm a contractor and have seen this hiring 'practice' used by several companies.
I do pretty much the same thing. Any call coming in that isn't in my contact list goes directly to VM. My mobile provider has a nice VM to text service so I get to scan the text of the message and if it looks legit I'll either listen to the VM or call back. All spam numbers go into my blocked list. The number of spam or robo calls I get is pretty low now.
I agree...
All other forms of temporary lodging require registration or licenses, why not airbnb?
Could someone wrap up in a few words how you could scam money from people who want to SELL something?
The most common scam aimed at sellers is the potential buyer (scammer) sends you an email that they want the item but they're out of town and will have their shipping company pick the item up. You're selling a guitar for $500, they tell you they'll send you a check for $550 to cover the guitar plus the $50 to give to their shipping company when the pick up the item. They send you a check for $650 and an email that the check was accidentally sent for the wrong amount. They ask you to cash the check at your bank and then Western Union the remaining $100 to them. Your bank will most likely 'clear' the check in 3-5 business days so you THINK the check is good because the money is in your account. You send them their 'extra' $100. 4 days later you check your bank account to find that the $650 deposit was reversed because it was in fact NOT a good check.
Yes, companies ARE required to keep private medical information secure but whether or not the company THOUGHT their secure location extended to the directory where the patient data was is irrelevant. The data was unencrypted and freely accessible via an anonymous ftp server. The company should be penalized for allowing this to happen, NOT the user who found the exposed ftp server and informed the company that the records were freely available.
This is getting ridiculous, what else would a phone do but make actual phone calls. The methodology Apple uses in the iPhone to make a phone call can't be THAT much different than every other phone manufacturer that they should be singled out for violating some insanely broad patent. Apple should use some of that cash it has stockpiled and stomp the trolls into the ground.
Taxing income alone is a horrible idea. I have a client (IT Consulting) that due to digital media tax credits actually operate at close to a loss. If they were taxed on the several million dollars in revenue they take in they would be forced to close their doors.
It is not stupid. As the law stands you deduct taxes already paid to other governments from the tax you own USA.
This only applies to countries that have tax treaties with the US.
Or...
The new base could have had a better IT system
Blame all the discount travel sites. Putting a plane in the air is expensive but nobody wants to shoulder that burden, instead they want discount flights where more and more people are packed in like cattle cars, every option costs more and more money and then people do nothing but complain about the quality of their flight or the service.
I worked for a manufacturing facility in CT that had several offices as well as an actual manufacturing plant. During the summer and other peak usage times, the local power company would give us massive reductions in cost or provide credits of tens of thousands of dollars, JUST to turn off half of the fluorescent lights in the offices for at least 4 hours.
Where I live now, the local pulp mill can generate power with residual steam that normally runs the paper machines. During high load times when the power company pays them more, they will actually STOP producing paper because its more profitable to generate electricity on those days.
I was a long term contractor at a rather large international company that recently outsourced all their IT, which included application development, to an India based company.
I've had to deal with the client and the new support company several times over the last year and I agree that the mindset is completely different. They tend to work in teams of 2 or 3 with only one person doing any actual work at any given time. I'd love to say that the this results in either increased productivity or a better code base but I haven't seen any examples of that.
This is also the first thing that popped into my head when I read the story. H1-B workers are only supposed to be brought in if there are no American workers that are capable of doing the job available. If that's so then why are you letting the current workers go but keeping them on retainer? Surely they are capable of doing the job if you are keeping them on retainer, thus the H1-B workers is in violation of the intent of the H1-B program.
This looks like an incredible opportunity to take legal action against the entire program and expose it for what it really is, a Visa loophole exploited by American companies to screw higher paying US workers.
I was going to say pretty much the same thing!
I've been a consultant for close to 20 years and I'm AMAZED by the decisions made by high level executives based solely on a sales pitch or based on the advice of a family member or friend that 'knows about computers and stuff'.
Perhaps MS will include Visual MUMPS in the next release of Visual Studio.