My company has internal people who seek out candidates, but we also have several contractors that we hire to full-time look for us. They don't get company credentials, but are looking. Those people would still find Stepan people looking. Actually had it happen that one of these people found one of our employees was out looking for a job and mentioned it to HR.
So this is 1 step, but it is very flimsy and you still have a good chance they may find out anyway.
Agreed, easy to verify. Not something I can do....I assume not something you can do.
My main point was, don't assume it is the bad officers stopped being bad like a lot of people might assume these days. Article says, say drop, but don't know reason. Current political climate makes it likely a lot of people would go to the bad officers stop thing. Maybe it is, but I know quite a few police officers and so I don't tend to look at them as bad people.
I did then offer my opinion on why, but that is why I put the I would guess (not scientific).
I would also guess (again, just my opinion and a guess) that this study will probably not go any further. They realize whatever the affect is it happens so the cameras are worth it, even if just half the time wearing them, that it justifies the expense and they don't care to determine why.
The most important thing is the end of the article.
"Specifics on how exactly this is happening are unclear. Is the officer less confrontational to begin with, avoiding escalation? Or are suspects and complainants more wary of their conduct? Is it some combination of the two, or are even more factors involved? To determine these things would be a far more complex and subtle piece of research, but the study does suggest that officer behavior is probably the most affected, and that other effects flow from that."
Someone already said it is the people acting better or making less complaints because they think they may be on camera. I am certain someone is writing, it means the police are behaving themselves.
I would guess (not scientific) that most of the drop in complaints are because people realize they might be caught on camera and acting better or not lieing to try and get a lawsuit. I am certain there are some police that are acting better as there are bad apples, but I would guess the drop is probably 10%/90% with the 90% being the people changing behavior as opposed to the police office.
Level 23 Instinct (Valiant is for losers!!), just spent my first money on it.
Most free to play games, I will try, if I like them and play them for a while I figure it is time to help the cause and pay a bit as I got significant enjoyment out of it. I throw a few bucks at it to support. I think gran total I have paid maybe $50 for free to play aps in 5 or so years.
Not that I needed to pay to play at all, just got to a point where I thought it was time to support the game with a little of my money.
I have never heard you lose your infinite incubator at level 25. I am only lvl 23, but I know a bunch that are higher and have never heard that. Also can't find reference to it anywhere. I think that might be incorrect.
My personal best was 37 minutes before I finally let the guy know I was stringing him along. I was working at home and had a whole lot of completely mind numbing tasks when the guy called so I could continue to work and mess with the guy.
I acted all concerned and said, let me get to my computer room, it is on the other side of the house and put the phone down for 2 minutes. Then I picked up he was still there so I said, hold on, it is booting...which one, I have 4? I told him, they are old and slow and will take a bit to boot hold on, another 2 minutes of putting the phone down.
Then I started playing along, acting like the horrible end user who is totally illiterate and can barely use a computer. Had "monitor issues" because it was unplugged. Didn't know where anything was. He told me to open a command prompt and type things in, which always resulted in Unknown command because i was "misspelling" what he told me because I was bad at typing or thought it was a different letter because of his accent.. He then switched to Alpha, Sam, Sam, designation and I pretended to type in alpha, sam, sam.
Then I used the bathroom, picked up stuff around the house a bit and finally needed to get back to actual work and told him, I will level with you, I do PC security stuff for a living, I have been messing with you the entire time.
He said, well this entire time I have been hacking into your machine and stealing all of your files and if you don't pay me, I will not let you have them back. I laughed and said, no you aren't to which he said, never underestimate the power of the common man. I told him, you are a common criminal and not that good of one and that lead to the tirade of swearing and he hung up!
Read studies on this and they say 80% of the people who accept counter offers leave within a year anyway. The study didn't deal with those who were terminated, just those who took the counter and then quit anyway.
I grew up in a small framing community outside of Chicago and then went to college in Chicago. In one of my first few weeks there, a new friend who was from the city told me to stop looking down at the sidewalk. I asked why and he told me, that is how you get yourself mugged.
We talked about it and I realized, being from a land of no sidewalks, I always scan the ground to make sure of my footing so I don't trip on uneven ground. In the city, sidewalks are much more level and predictable so people don't have to look down. Also pickpockets and muggers look for easy targets that can't identify them. My friend told me, he was always taught, look up and look at the people around you. If you make eye contact with a mugger, there is a chance you will be able to ID him so they look for another target.
I am thinking, all these peoples looking down at their phone are an excellent target for being pick pocketed! I may have to change professions!
You have to have a preferred card to use them. You forget it, you can provide a phone number and the machine lets you in.
The machine informs you that you have to maintain a certain rate of items per second with a maximum time length per total time to payment.
If you fail to meet the rates, then this will be your last purchase until you attend a short training class provided by an employee.
The systems logs your times every time you use self check out. When you are new, it gives you more time, but as you are more experienced, your times should get closer to the theoretical minimum. If you can not maintain the speed rate, when you finish that transaction, you are not allowed to us them anymore until you attend the class.
When you log in, have it show your average checkout time and average rate of items checked and challenge you to beat your last time. if you beat your time, it displays a congratulations, new record with a thank you for using the self checkout.
It needs to display a leader board of the fastest time today and this week with initials.
You put on badges and achievements! You earned the, you weighed a bag of apples with inputting the code in less then 2 seconds badge!!!
The you are too slow take a class drives all the slow people or people with large loads right to the humans. The achievements and time trials and displaying times encourages the people using it to go even faster and they maybe have fun doing it! Some psychos will even become obsessed with beating the speed and start shopping more there just to beat their times!!!
And FYI, I am already seeking a patent on the system I described above so no stealing my idea!
School is both and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.
The problem is knowing when it changes. You initial schooling is gets you the broad range of knowledge and expands your mind so you can hopefully function better in society no matter what you do. At some point in time, school stops being about broadening your mind and becomes job training.
So you have to know what school is being used for and when. Sometime in the high school time frame it when it starts transitioning into job training. Counselors start talking about are you on the college career path, ok, you need to take these classes to meet college requirement. You are not going to college, here are the requirements for a diploma, let's find where your interest lie so you can take classes.
By the time you hit college, if you haven't transitioned to it being job training by Junior year, you are wasting time and money at that point. It really should be sooner than junior year in college in my opinion that you transition more towards the job training, but college is too expensive to not be talking about the return on investment of going.
Education is great and expanding out mind and knowledge is wonderful and should be the life goal of every human being their entire life in my opinion, but there is a point when you stop paying high dollar to sit and listen to someone and you continue the pursuit on your own while working because the bills have to get paid.
I will agree to this as long as they remove foreign language requirement for engineers! The accountants and poets don't like high end math, I don't like foreign language requirement (and I am fluent in more then 1 language and an engineer)!
That doesn't work well when you are in the medical field or controls field (like I am) or some other fields as well and have legacy systems in place. You don't have an unlimited number of vendors that can do what you are doing as well. Combine that with huge installed base and you can't simply migrate away.
One of the biggest things I deal with is I have hardware that is running systems that go down once a year or once ever few years for maintenance. Some of the hardware is 40+ years old (we have an upgrade path forward and are updating a lot of it), but the hardware was never designed with network security in mind and the only option for security is upgrade.
The newer offerings by the vendors are better, but the old legacy systems are not so I have to harden my system against the outside world, but if the outside gets in, the hardware is easily compromised.
It will take us about 7 years to upgrade all of our systems because of man power and cost constraints, but until then we have to beef up security as best we can to keep stuff from getting in.
Apples and Oranges. Forgot to take the pill was you didn't do something because you forgot and so it couldn't protect you.
Valve not closing all the way happens all the time when you think you closed the valve all of the way and it didn't seat properly so you tried and the equipment failed.
The pill has an extremely low rate of failure when taken properly. Valves have a much higher failure rate when used properly.
I work at a chemical manufacturing site. Do you have any idea how many millions of pounds of material are lost each year do to a manual valve that was not fully shut.
I am sorry babby, I guess when I got hit in the groin last week playing basketball, it must have opened the valve!
Or,
I closed it, I guess it didn't close all of the way!
1) Make a list of exactly what it takes to make a clock like this 2) Talk to his friends, who talk to their friends, etc. and spread the list 3) Have as many of the high school students show up at a location on a Saturday and all build clocks 4) Have all of these students show up at school on Monday with their clocks 5) Have all the kids en-mass show their teachers the clocks they made right as school is starting. Make sure they all know, it is a clock. 6) Wait for the administration and police to react.
Problem solved. they can't suspend that many kids at once. The Police can't handle that many kids at once. If they don't respond the exact same way as they did to the first clock, then the lawsuits will fly! They can't respond to that many clocks being brought to school in the same manner so the police and school then have to say, yeah, it isn't that big a deal or they have to let their true crazy shine!
I think you maybe even get as many of the parents as you can to show up at school drop off with clocks as well!
I can only tell you what my friend told me he was told and then I heard it from someone else that worked with the hiring process. When he left his previous company, there were some issues with the hand off and sponsorship associated with our HR getting the sponsorship on the books.
It came down to the point where we didn't think we were going to be able to get it transferred and our company contacted the employer he was leaving and asked if they could keep him as their employer and we would contract his services until it was all taken care of. He was under the impression that he was going to have to leave the country and head back to India.
Maybe he sensationalized things, or maybe the company rep did, but that is the impression he had that he was preparing to leave the country.
I am glad that your experience on the H1-B Visa program has been a trivial task for you. That is not always the case though.
At a previous company, we had an H1-B visa employee that we hired from another company and despite the fact he was sponsored by the other company and we were willing to sponsor him, he almost got deported because of the process of handing off from 1 company to another did not go smoothly.
He worked for us for 3 years, and then went to another job and again, almost ended up deported. It was a nightmare on both ends.
I also know a few H1-B visa employees at my current place of employee who have had similiar fears.
Citizen loses a job or goes to another job, nothing happens. H1-B Visa person always has the possibility of being kicked out of the country if HR screws up the sponsorship.
I am not part of the IT tech industry, but chemical manufacturing and the people I know have been electrical or chemical engineers and not working for Google or other big names like those you mention. So while ti can be smooth, you are 1 HR screw up away from losing your status and being deported.
I am glad you have worked for companies who have it down well enough that their HR has worked for you, but that is by no means the norm for smaller companies.
I agree with what you said. I always try and do my best for my current employer as well. Someone else in the thread said, your stuff should be documented as part of your job. When you get to the point of leaving, you should not be starting the documentation, just have to be organizing it for the next guy. Maybe a nice book that says where everything is so the next guy can find it.
If it is more then that, you have missed the boat already and your predecessor will be cursing you to for the next 2 years, so you burnt that bridge to the ground!
On a different level, since when is important technical documentation solely stored on the company email server anyway?
1) Do your best to store it where it won't get deleted 2) Sign an agreement with them on your billing rate if they call you for help 3) Don't look back unless they call
You wrote, "Detecting a malfunction in a sensor is hard, really hard."
Actually is is quite simple to do. If you get anything more then the cheapest of sensors, they continually diagnose themselves and report back the diagnosis. There are failures that cause the sensor to freeze up and stop reporting. If it keeps sending the same data, easy to detect the value stopped changing. If it stops sending any data at all, easy to see a step change that should not have occurred and you also do a redundant sensors and do 2 out of 3 voting. I could continue with scenarios, but while it takes some work, some program and some costs, detecting a malfunctioning sensors is easy. Cars currently report malfunctioning sensors, most of them with a check engine light.
Not sure of your background, but I am a Controls Engineer. I do this for a living. I am sitting at a plant where I have over 20,000 sensors of various kinds and detecting the fact that a sensor failed is quite easy to automatically detect and alert the operator of failure.
We have satellites in orbit that are visible with the naked eye. The tend to be about the size of a school bus or smaller. School bus is 45 feet long. If you can see a 45 foot satellite as a point of light in the sky, this proposed telescope will be half mile diameter which is 58 times the length of a school bus.
Yes, I do believe this thing would be visible with the naked eye.
You wrote, "people should have a right to not be vaccinated - but they do not have a right to be free from the consequences"
Consequence of you not getting vaccinated because you choose not to is someone else can get sick and possibly die. I would think there is an argument to be made that if you choose not to get vaccinated and then get me sick that you are now responsible for my getting sick. Maybe you should have to pay for my lost work time, my suffering, medical bills and if a death results, then you are responsible to my family for my death.
The exclusion here being people who can't get vaccinated for medical reasons like being allergic to the vaccination. Those few individuals are gaining the benefit of the herd immunity and are put at the most risk by people refusing to vaccinate.
If I knowingly put someone at risk through my negligence, I am criminally liable. Isn't there a case to be made to say that not vaccinating and then participating in society, especially in a big way like working at Disneyland, means you are knowingly putting all of those people at risk? I wonder if some of the people who got sick because of the un-vaccinated workers will sure Disneyland or those workers. I think there may be a case for this...and IANAL, I just play one on web forums.
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My company has internal people who seek out candidates, but we also have several contractors that we hire to full-time look for us. They don't get company credentials, but are looking. Those people would still find Stepan people looking. Actually had it happen that one of these people found one of our employees was out looking for a job and mentioned it to HR.
So this is 1 step, but it is very flimsy and you still have a good chance they may find out anyway.
Agreed, easy to verify. Not something I can do....I assume not something you can do.
My main point was, don't assume it is the bad officers stopped being bad like a lot of people might assume these days. Article says, say drop, but don't know reason. Current political climate makes it likely a lot of people would go to the bad officers stop thing. Maybe it is, but I know quite a few police officers and so I don't tend to look at them as bad people.
I did then offer my opinion on why, but that is why I put the I would guess (not scientific).
I would also guess (again, just my opinion and a guess) that this study will probably not go any further. They realize whatever the affect is it happens so the cameras are worth it, even if just half the time wearing them, that it justifies the expense and they don't care to determine why.
The most important thing is the end of the article.
"Specifics on how exactly this is happening are unclear. Is the officer less confrontational to begin with, avoiding escalation? Or are suspects and complainants more wary of their conduct? Is it some combination of the two, or are even more factors involved? To determine these things would be a far more complex and subtle piece of research, but the study does suggest that officer behavior is probably the most affected, and that other effects flow from that."
Someone already said it is the people acting better or making less complaints because they think they may be on camera. I am certain someone is writing, it means the police are behaving themselves.
I would guess (not scientific) that most of the drop in complaints are because people realize they might be caught on camera and acting better or not lieing to try and get a lawsuit. I am certain there are some police that are acting better as there are bad apples, but I would guess the drop is probably 10%/90% with the 90% being the people changing behavior as opposed to the police office.
Level 23 Instinct (Valiant is for losers!!), just spent my first money on it.
Most free to play games, I will try, if I like them and play them for a while I figure it is time to help the cause and pay a bit as I got significant enjoyment out of it. I throw a few bucks at it to support. I think gran total I have paid maybe $50 for free to play aps in 5 or so years.
Not that I needed to pay to play at all, just got to a point where I thought it was time to support the game with a little of my money.
I have never heard you lose your infinite incubator at level 25. I am only lvl 23, but I know a bunch that are higher and have never heard that. Also can't find reference to it anywhere. I think that might be incorrect.
So what is your deal? You have stated opposing views on this thread and then said /. was dead.
When people responded to your posts, you said, I had never considered that, good point. No one shows respect like that for others opinions on /.!
I checked your history, and in the last 3 days you have posted more to /. then I think I have posted in 2 years!
Are you trying to boost your Karma, or just get more people responding?
My personal best was 37 minutes before I finally let the guy know I was stringing him along. I was working at home and had a whole lot of completely mind numbing tasks when the guy called so I could continue to work and mess with the guy.
I acted all concerned and said, let me get to my computer room, it is on the other side of the house and put the phone down for 2 minutes. Then I picked up he was still there so I said, hold on, it is booting...which one, I have 4? I told him, they are old and slow and will take a bit to boot hold on, another 2 minutes of putting the phone down.
Then I started playing along, acting like the horrible end user who is totally illiterate and can barely use a computer. Had "monitor issues" because it was unplugged. Didn't know where anything was. He told me to open a command prompt and type things in, which always resulted in Unknown command because i was "misspelling" what he told me because I was bad at typing or thought it was a different letter because of his accent.. He then switched to Alpha, Sam, Sam, designation and I pretended to type in alpha, sam, sam.
Then I used the bathroom, picked up stuff around the house a bit and finally needed to get back to actual work and told him, I will level with you, I do PC security stuff for a living, I have been messing with you the entire time.
He said, well this entire time I have been hacking into your machine and stealing all of your files and if you don't pay me, I will not let you have them back. I laughed and said, no you aren't to which he said, never underestimate the power of the common man. I told him, you are a common criminal and not that good of one and that lead to the tirade of swearing and he hung up!
Read studies on this and they say 80% of the people who accept counter offers leave within a year anyway. The study didn't deal with those who were terminated, just those who took the counter and then quit anyway.
I grew up in a small framing community outside of Chicago and then went to college in Chicago. In one of my first few weeks there, a new friend who was from the city told me to stop looking down at the sidewalk. I asked why and he told me, that is how you get yourself mugged.
We talked about it and I realized, being from a land of no sidewalks, I always scan the ground to make sure of my footing so I don't trip on uneven ground. In the city, sidewalks are much more level and predictable so people don't have to look down. Also pickpockets and muggers look for easy targets that can't identify them. My friend told me, he was always taught, look up and look at the people around you. If you make eye contact with a mugger, there is a chance you will be able to ID him so they look for another target.
I am thinking, all these peoples looking down at their phone are an excellent target for being pick pocketed! I may have to change professions!
What channel is your program on? I totally think this show will be my new favorite.
I am logging into my brand new Dish receiver with my brand new big shiney iPhone with the more Geebeees and the Wifis to tell it to DVR this new show.
Here is the solution to the check out thing.
You have to have a preferred card to use them. You forget it, you can provide a phone number and the machine lets you in.
The machine informs you that you have to maintain a certain rate of items per second with a maximum time length per total time to payment.
If you fail to meet the rates, then this will be your last purchase until you attend a short training class provided by an employee.
The systems logs your times every time you use self check out. When you are new, it gives you more time, but as you are more experienced, your times should get closer to the theoretical minimum. If you can not maintain the speed rate, when you finish that transaction, you are not allowed to us them anymore until you attend the class.
When you log in, have it show your average checkout time and average rate of items checked and challenge you to beat your last time. if you beat your time, it displays a congratulations, new record with a thank you for using the self checkout.
It needs to display a leader board of the fastest time today and this week with initials.
You put on badges and achievements! You earned the, you weighed a bag of apples with inputting the code in less then 2 seconds badge!!!
The you are too slow take a class drives all the slow people or people with large loads right to the humans. The achievements and time trials and displaying times encourages the people using it to go even faster and they maybe have fun doing it! Some psychos will even become obsessed with beating the speed and start shopping more there just to beat their times!!!
And FYI, I am already seeking a patent on the system I described above so no stealing my idea!
School is both and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.
The problem is knowing when it changes. You initial schooling is gets you the broad range of knowledge and expands your mind so you can hopefully function better in society no matter what you do. At some point in time, school stops being about broadening your mind and becomes job training.
So you have to know what school is being used for and when. Sometime in the high school time frame it when it starts transitioning into job training. Counselors start talking about are you on the college career path, ok, you need to take these classes to meet college requirement. You are not going to college, here are the requirements for a diploma, let's find where your interest lie so you can take classes.
By the time you hit college, if you haven't transitioned to it being job training by Junior year, you are wasting time and money at that point. It really should be sooner than junior year in college in my opinion that you transition more towards the job training, but college is too expensive to not be talking about the return on investment of going.
Education is great and expanding out mind and knowledge is wonderful and should be the life goal of every human being their entire life in my opinion, but there is a point when you stop paying high dollar to sit and listen to someone and you continue the pursuit on your own while working because the bills have to get paid.
Most colleges require you have foreign language credit that you either took in high school or you take it while in college.
So you can get a BS Eng without taking foreign language in college as long as you took it in high school.
I will agree to this as long as they remove foreign language requirement for engineers! The accountants and poets don't like high end math, I don't like foreign language requirement (and I am fluent in more then 1 language and an engineer)!
That doesn't work well when you are in the medical field or controls field (like I am) or some other fields as well and have legacy systems in place. You don't have an unlimited number of vendors that can do what you are doing as well. Combine that with huge installed base and you can't simply migrate away.
One of the biggest things I deal with is I have hardware that is running systems that go down once a year or once ever few years for maintenance. Some of the hardware is 40+ years old (we have an upgrade path forward and are updating a lot of it), but the hardware was never designed with network security in mind and the only option for security is upgrade.
The newer offerings by the vendors are better, but the old legacy systems are not so I have to harden my system against the outside world, but if the outside gets in, the hardware is easily compromised.
It will take us about 7 years to upgrade all of our systems because of man power and cost constraints, but until then we have to beef up security as best we can to keep stuff from getting in.
Apples and Oranges. Forgot to take the pill was you didn't do something because you forgot and so it couldn't protect you.
Valve not closing all the way happens all the time when you think you closed the valve all of the way and it didn't seat properly so you tried and the equipment failed.
The pill has an extremely low rate of failure when taken properly. Valves have a much higher failure rate when used properly.
I work at a chemical manufacturing site. Do you have any idea how many millions of pounds of material are lost each year do to a manual valve that was not fully shut.
I am sorry babby, I guess when I got hit in the groin last week playing basketball, it must have opened the valve!
Or,
I closed it, I guess it didn't close all of the way!
Yeah, not so sure this is a good idea!
I will tell you want he should do next!
1) Make a list of exactly what it takes to make a clock like this
2) Talk to his friends, who talk to their friends, etc. and spread the list
3) Have as many of the high school students show up at a location on a Saturday and all build clocks
4) Have all of these students show up at school on Monday with their clocks
5) Have all the kids en-mass show their teachers the clocks they made right as school is starting. Make sure they all know, it is a clock.
6) Wait for the administration and police to react.
Problem solved. they can't suspend that many kids at once. The Police can't handle that many kids at once. If they don't respond the exact same way as they did to the first clock, then the lawsuits will fly! They can't respond to that many clocks being brought to school in the same manner so the police and school then have to say, yeah, it isn't that big a deal or they have to let their true crazy shine!
I think you maybe even get as many of the parents as you can to show up at school drop off with clocks as well!
I can only tell you what my friend told me he was told and then I heard it from someone else that worked with the hiring process. When he left his previous company, there were some issues with the hand off and sponsorship associated with our HR getting the sponsorship on the books.
It came down to the point where we didn't think we were going to be able to get it transferred and our company contacted the employer he was leaving and asked if they could keep him as their employer and we would contract his services until it was all taken care of. He was under the impression that he was going to have to leave the country and head back to India.
Maybe he sensationalized things, or maybe the company rep did, but that is the impression he had that he was preparing to leave the country.
I am glad that your experience on the H1-B Visa program has been a trivial task for you. That is not always the case though.
At a previous company, we had an H1-B visa employee that we hired from another company and despite the fact he was sponsored by the other company and we were willing to sponsor him, he almost got deported because of the process of handing off from 1 company to another did not go smoothly.
He worked for us for 3 years, and then went to another job and again, almost ended up deported. It was a nightmare on both ends.
I also know a few H1-B visa employees at my current place of employee who have had similiar fears.
Citizen loses a job or goes to another job, nothing happens. H1-B Visa person always has the possibility of being kicked out of the country if HR screws up the sponsorship.
I am not part of the IT tech industry, but chemical manufacturing and the people I know have been electrical or chemical engineers and not working for Google or other big names like those you mention. So while ti can be smooth, you are 1 HR screw up away from losing your status and being deported.
I am glad you have worked for companies who have it down well enough that their HR has worked for you, but that is by no means the norm for smaller companies.
I agree with what you said. I always try and do my best for my current employer as well. Someone else in the thread said, your stuff should be documented as part of your job. When you get to the point of leaving, you should not be starting the documentation, just have to be organizing it for the next guy. Maybe a nice book that says where everything is so the next guy can find it.
If it is more then that, you have missed the boat already and your predecessor will be cursing you to for the next 2 years, so you burnt that bridge to the ground!
On a different level, since when is important technical documentation solely stored on the company email server anyway?
1) Do your best to store it where it won't get deleted
2) Sign an agreement with them on your billing rate if they call you for help
3) Don't look back unless they call
This should be SOP. BTW, they usually don't call.
You wrote, "Detecting a malfunction in a sensor is hard, really hard."
Actually is is quite simple to do. If you get anything more then the cheapest of sensors, they continually diagnose themselves and report back the diagnosis. There are failures that cause the sensor to freeze up and stop reporting. If it keeps sending the same data, easy to detect the value stopped changing. If it stops sending any data at all, easy to see a step change that should not have occurred and you also do a redundant sensors and do 2 out of 3 voting. I could continue with scenarios, but while it takes some work, some program and some costs, detecting a malfunctioning sensors is easy. Cars currently report malfunctioning sensors, most of them with a check engine light.
Not sure of your background, but I am a Controls Engineer. I do this for a living. I am sitting at a plant where I have over 20,000 sensors of various kinds and detecting the fact that a sensor failed is quite easy to automatically detect and alert the operator of failure.
We have satellites in orbit that are visible with the naked eye. The tend to be about the size of a school bus or smaller. School bus is 45 feet long. If you can see a 45 foot satellite as a point of light in the sky, this proposed telescope will be half mile diameter which is 58 times the length of a school bus.
Yes, I do believe this thing would be visible with the naked eye.
You wrote, "people should have a right to not be vaccinated - but they do not have a right to be free from the consequences"
Consequence of you not getting vaccinated because you choose not to is someone else can get sick and possibly die. I would think there is an argument to be made that if you choose not to get vaccinated and then get me sick that you are now responsible for my getting sick. Maybe you should have to pay for my lost work time, my suffering, medical bills and if a death results, then you are responsible to my family for my death.
The exclusion here being people who can't get vaccinated for medical reasons like being allergic to the vaccination. Those few individuals are gaining the benefit of the herd immunity and are put at the most risk by people refusing to vaccinate.
If I knowingly put someone at risk through my negligence, I am criminally liable. Isn't there a case to be made to say that not vaccinating and then participating in society, especially in a big way like working at Disneyland, means you are knowingly putting all of those people at risk? I wonder if some of the people who got sick because of the un-vaccinated workers will sure Disneyland or those workers. I think there may be a case for this...and IANAL, I just play one on web forums.