The lead isn't coming from waste. The river water is acidic and leeching lead from the plumbing. The largest contributor of acid to the river is decaying plant matter; leaves and whatnot.
It doesn't sound like the lead problem as-described is simply a case of service-entrance lead pipe from the street to the residence. If the water was acidic enough to leach the lead from 30' of pipe to reach these lead-levels then the people would be complaining of acid burns of the mouth and esophagus, and the pipes would have rotted away.
If they're contractors, then treat them like contractors. If they're employees, then treat them like employees.
The whole argument is that they're being treated to the negative aspects of being an employee while also being treated to the negative aspects of being a contractor. Pick one or the other.
Uber and its ilk still bear responsibility, in that they market themselves as an alternative to the traditional taxi and they attempt to use non-compete tactics that normally apply to employees rather than to contractors.
Why would you need collective bargaining with 1099 contract workers??
Geez, leave it to government to try to throw a wrench into a new business model....
What new business model? Workers are either employees bound by rules that give the employer certain rights, in exchange for the employees getting certain rights, or workers are contractors, where the employer has to butt-out of the contractor's business and has very limited say as to what the contractor may do when not doing work specifically applicable to the company. The definitions for these two classes cover just about every possible kind of work. There is no need for a new business model, as this is already covered by existing models.
This hobby has hit its "Eternal September". The only thing changing this is the presence of the FAA, and how that might help to curtail abuse.
The biggest advantage, if you can call it that, with the fixed-wing RC aircraft and scale-model helicopters is that they're hard to operate and they're expensive when they crash, so people have vested interests in being careful and following rules and guidelines. These conditions do not generally apply as well to quadcopters and other "drone" RC aircraft.
Note, that is $5 every three years. The FAA is making a list without any benefit to the people on the list. Thanks.
The point of the list isn't to benefit the people on the list, the point of the list is to benefit everyone else against the people on the list.
I'm a licensed amateur radio operator. I have a very basic tech/no-code license, and as such I am limited to a very specific set of frequencies and power levels. This is to protect everyone else from me, while giving me some guidelines so that I may actually pursue the hobby, so that your TV and radio and cordless phone and cell phone and WIFI don't stop working because I'm pursuing my hobby.
Licensing of drones works in a similar fashion- it gives the hobby some room to operate but works to curtail abuses and abusers. I expect rules to be developed for where people can fly and what can be flown in what kinds of locations and conditions. I expect rules on altitude, the crossing of private property, the use of cameras regarding private property, etc. Given that I legally own the airspace over my house to a certain extent, operators will have to learn what they are and are not allowed to do, in the same way that I don't transmit on frequencies that break your electronics.
The valvetrain issues were what came to mind. A friend sunk the valves on a head with soft seats due to the fuel he ran.
There are machining techniques that can be used to reduce the propensity for premature detonation too, but they require time to be spent removing the hard edges on the dishes on the pistons and in the head chambers, or using other metal like aluminum in the head, or some combination thereof. It's possible to get 10:1 compression without knock sensors on pump gas.
Lead was only needed because the manufacturers did not want to do the metallurgy needed to make their engines work properly without it. The warning signs were all there right from the start- numerous scientists, laboratory technicians, and refinery workers died or were left with the effects of lead poisoning.
I wouldn't exactly call it justice when the organism arguably responsible for the most environmental damage ever seen on the planet died because he screwed up and accidentally strangled himself.
...nooooo.........I said we should set up fake elections for the dumb people, so our elections WORK.
Am I on slashdot?
We already have fake elections. The body that elects the President of the United States is the Electoral College.
If I remember our history correctly, state legislatures used to elect the electors too, not a direct-populace vote. I suppose one advantage of that is that people have a lot more interest in paying attention to their local officials.
We've been installing panels around where I live specifically to blot-out the sun. It's getting kind of nice not having to compete for the rare tree in the summer time, whole shopping centers are getting solar installed over the parking lots to shade cars while the patrons go shopping.
Yeah, generally San Diego is considered to be the place with the best climate in the United States, at least within the contiguous 48 states.
Places are expensive to live in because people want to live there. That usually means jobs, or culture, or climate, or some combination thereof. North Carolina, by and large, doesn't have a lot of people wanting to live there.
When I've used VPN solutions like Cisco Anyconnect I've been given an IP on the LAN to which I am connecting, assigned to the virtual interface belonging to the client. Given that manufacturers have encouraged 192.168.0.0/24 and 192.168.1.0/24 for home networks using those as the defaults depending on how the manufacturer felt about subnet zero at the time.
Even if there wasn't a problem with IP address and network collisions though, it would still require lots of VPN clients to be installed on the security company PCs. They're just not going to do that; there are already enough links in the chain to potentially troubleshoot without adding a VPN controller and client to the mix. It would make more sense for the NVR to initiate the connection to the security company and to push content rather than for the security company to initiate and to pull, or to just use port address translation so that the security company can reach the NVR without more complex networking.
There is a degree of understanding for why a security company might not want to use your VPN solution; if they have to monitor a lot of customers' cameras then they'd have to have a lot of different VPN clients running that might cause problems when the networks overlap private IP addresses.
Configure your firewall to allow their IP address range to port-translate to the NVR's IP and port(s). ACL-off your security VLAN from your user VLAN(s), and vice-versa, and allow only the correct ports through from your user network(s) to the NVR.
An actor who I 'recognize' is an actor who has failed at their job. The job of an actor is to take on a role, and part of that process is immersing themselves in the role. If I see a 'star' actor and not the character being portrayed, the aesthetic distance has been broken and the actor has failed.
If you enjoy the performance then the actor has succeeded. If you believe the character then the actor has succeeded. One does not necessarily require the other. Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, and Bing Crosby hammed it up essentially as themselves in seven The Road To... movies even though their characters in the movies were not the same characters through the series. In contrast Jennifer Connelly's performances in many of her movies are distinct and well performed even if it's difficult to call some movies like Requiem for a Dream enjoyable.
Many of the most renowned actors essentially play the same role in their films, and many actors that meld-into the films often are relegated to character-actor status and aren't widely popular or known.
It also helps that the QA engineer has no personal connection to the code. He treats the software as livestock, not as a pet. He isn't bound by personal feelings keep it alive, he can euthanize if it needs it.
...based on the various ways that Kim Cattrall the Vulcan and Kim Cattrall the Coach, Kim Cattrall the seductress, Kim Cattrall the slutty friend, etc have been collaged together...
He's been so public, even with his fairly high-profile failures, that it would probably be difficult to come up with any real dirt that would actually make for a scandal. He'd almost have to do the things that Bill Cosby is accused of in order to be brought down.
Anonymous isn't a structured group. It's a label that individuals apply to themselves. There is no hierarchy, there is no leadership, there is no organizational goal, there is no long term plan. Literally anyone can be Anonymous because it's almost a misnomer to apply the Capital-A to the word.
If Anonymous (with Capital-A) is anything, it's a mindset to do something that's not entirely socially acceptable or whose means are not necessarily acceptable for reasons that are not necessarily personally beneficial. As such, people can ascribe their behaviors to Anonymous. That's why there's no stopping Anonymous, because there isn't even a head to cut-off.
In some ways Anonymous is the anti-Borg. There is no structure, there are only ideas and people voluntarily choosing to pursue the ideas that others come up with, or not choosing to pursue those ideas. If it wasn't for the Guy Fawkes masks and black hoodies I don't think that the mystique surrounding the word would exist at all.
They still do a lot of end-stage testing though. Pressure testing, structural testing, failure-mode testing, load testing, load-shift testing, strike testing, and probably all other manner of tests. They do perform a lot of tests as they develop but that's no replacement for the final-stage testing that confirms predicted behavior or verifies that systems integrate as expected.
To pretend that there's no end-stage testing is simply ridiculous.
I very much doubt that they were smart enough to begin the transition to TDD before they eliminated their QA department.
I worked quality assurance at a very-much test level without really delving into code. Programmers can be effin' stupid at times. I was testing daemons for communications protocols. I took four approaches. Verify that it does what it's supposed to do per RFC. Investigate the behavior when confronted with stale RFCs. Investigate the behavior when it's confronted with non-RFC input that is commonly available in end-user applications (ie, non-malicious incorrect use), and investigate the behavior when malicious intent is used. I can tell you that programmers working on these protocols wrote them to current-RFC only and that they were quite upset when testing obsolete commands from previous versions of RFC broke things, or when the third-party applications sent stuff to the daemons and broke them. I would have been understanding if the software had failed gracefully, with a warning or a 500 code or the like, but when sending obsolete POP3 commands to a POP3 daemon causes it to crash hard, or when encoding an attachment with Mac BinHex instead of MIME makes it crash, both of which were user-selectable options in then-popular Eudora (the client that the company itself used) then there's a big problem. I didn't even have to get to the level of malicious testing things were so bad.
The point of a good quality assurance tester is to concoct out-of-the-box but plausible tests to try to break it. It has a lot in common with Security; it requires a degree of white-hat maliciousness and a need to use other kinds of experiences from other disciplines to devise the scenarios to use. It also requires the tester to have good communications skills as they may have to work to convince the development team that what they've found actually is a problem and being too antisocial or too introverted might not get problems corrected even if they are important and are discovered.
Yahoo is doing a hell of a job in convincing me that they're really not worth paying attention to anymore. They are taking a position that is risky and is arguably excessively risky relative to the size and position of the company.
There will never be an indictment. First, the law at the time probably either didn't make what she is accused of actually a crime, and second, the political witch hunt's lack of relative success has probably ironically provided her with a degree of immunity. Had those investigating not scraped the bottom of the barrel to the point they drew wood shavings it might be different, but the way this has been handled has made it such a non-story that nothing will ever come of it.
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The lead isn't coming from waste. The river water is acidic and leeching lead from the plumbing. The largest contributor of acid to the river is decaying plant matter; leaves and whatnot.
It doesn't sound like the lead problem as-described is simply a case of service-entrance lead pipe from the street to the residence. If the water was acidic enough to leach the lead from 30' of pipe to reach these lead-levels then the people would be complaining of acid burns of the mouth and esophagus, and the pipes would have rotted away.
If they're contractors, then treat them like contractors. If they're employees, then treat them like employees.
The whole argument is that they're being treated to the negative aspects of being an employee while also being treated to the negative aspects of being a contractor. Pick one or the other.
Uber and its ilk still bear responsibility, in that they market themselves as an alternative to the traditional taxi and they attempt to use non-compete tactics that normally apply to employees rather than to contractors.
Why would you need collective bargaining with 1099 contract workers??
Geez, leave it to government to try to throw a wrench into a new business model....
What new business model? Workers are either employees bound by rules that give the employer certain rights, in exchange for the employees getting certain rights, or workers are contractors, where the employer has to butt-out of the contractor's business and has very limited say as to what the contractor may do when not doing work specifically applicable to the company. The definitions for these two classes cover just about every possible kind of work. There is no need for a new business model, as this is already covered by existing models.
Unless, of course, you want to abuse people.
I just save them in my Bluewave offline mail reader! .qwk is the way to go!
This hobby has hit its "Eternal September". The only thing changing this is the presence of the FAA, and how that might help to curtail abuse.
The biggest advantage, if you can call it that, with the fixed-wing RC aircraft and scale-model helicopters is that they're hard to operate and they're expensive when they crash, so people have vested interests in being careful and following rules and guidelines. These conditions do not generally apply as well to quadcopters and other "drone" RC aircraft.
Note, that is $5 every three years. The FAA is making a list without any benefit to the people on the list. Thanks.
The point of the list isn't to benefit the people on the list, the point of the list is to benefit everyone else against the people on the list.
I'm a licensed amateur radio operator. I have a very basic tech/no-code license, and as such I am limited to a very specific set of frequencies and power levels. This is to protect everyone else from me, while giving me some guidelines so that I may actually pursue the hobby, so that your TV and radio and cordless phone and cell phone and WIFI don't stop working because I'm pursuing my hobby.
Licensing of drones works in a similar fashion- it gives the hobby some room to operate but works to curtail abuses and abusers. I expect rules to be developed for where people can fly and what can be flown in what kinds of locations and conditions. I expect rules on altitude, the crossing of private property, the use of cameras regarding private property, etc. Given that I legally own the airspace over my house to a certain extent, operators will have to learn what they are and are not allowed to do, in the same way that I don't transmit on frequencies that break your electronics.
not if they don't register
There'll still be an investigation, now that the FAA has declared that they are regulating, and now there'll be real charges.
$5/drone is not a moneygrab. I fully expect that the system will operate at a loss.
The valvetrain issues were what came to mind. A friend sunk the valves on a head with soft seats due to the fuel he ran.
There are machining techniques that can be used to reduce the propensity for premature detonation too, but they require time to be spent removing the hard edges on the dishes on the pistons and in the head chambers, or using other metal like aluminum in the head, or some combination thereof. It's possible to get 10:1 compression without knock sensors on pump gas.
Lead was only needed because the manufacturers did not want to do the metallurgy needed to make their engines work properly without it. The warning signs were all there right from the start- numerous scientists, laboratory technicians, and refinery workers died or were left with the effects of lead poisoning.
I wouldn't exactly call it justice when the organism arguably responsible for the most environmental damage ever seen on the planet died because he screwed up and accidentally strangled himself.
...nooooo.........I said we should set up fake elections for the dumb people, so our elections WORK.
Am I on slashdot?
We already have fake elections. The body that elects the President of the United States is the Electoral College.
If I remember our history correctly, state legislatures used to elect the electors too, not a direct-populace vote. I suppose one advantage of that is that people have a lot more interest in paying attention to their local officials.
"Our panels will blot out the sun!"
We've been installing panels around where I live specifically to blot-out the sun. It's getting kind of nice not having to compete for the rare tree in the summer time, whole shopping centers are getting solar installed over the parking lots to shade cars while the patrons go shopping.
Yeah, generally San Diego is considered to be the place with the best climate in the United States, at least within the contiguous 48 states.
Places are expensive to live in because people want to live there. That usually means jobs, or culture, or climate, or some combination thereof. North Carolina, by and large, doesn't have a lot of people wanting to live there.
When I've used VPN solutions like Cisco Anyconnect I've been given an IP on the LAN to which I am connecting, assigned to the virtual interface belonging to the client. Given that manufacturers have encouraged 192.168.0.0/24 and 192.168.1.0/24 for home networks using those as the defaults depending on how the manufacturer felt about subnet zero at the time.
Even if there wasn't a problem with IP address and network collisions though, it would still require lots of VPN clients to be installed on the security company PCs. They're just not going to do that; there are already enough links in the chain to potentially troubleshoot without adding a VPN controller and client to the mix. It would make more sense for the NVR to initiate the connection to the security company and to push content rather than for the security company to initiate and to pull, or to just use port address translation so that the security company can reach the NVR without more complex networking.
There is a degree of understanding for why a security company might not want to use your VPN solution; if they have to monitor a lot of customers' cameras then they'd have to have a lot of different VPN clients running that might cause problems when the networks overlap private IP addresses.
Configure your firewall to allow their IP address range to port-translate to the NVR's IP and port(s). ACL-off your security VLAN from your user VLAN(s), and vice-versa, and allow only the correct ports through from your user network(s) to the NVR.
An actor who I 'recognize' is an actor who has failed at their job. The job of an actor is to take on a role, and part of that process is immersing themselves in the role. If I see a 'star' actor and not the character being portrayed, the aesthetic distance has been broken and the actor has failed.
If you enjoy the performance then the actor has succeeded. If you believe the character then the actor has succeeded. One does not necessarily require the other. Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, and Bing Crosby hammed it up essentially as themselves in seven The Road To... movies even though their characters in the movies were not the same characters through the series. In contrast Jennifer Connelly's performances in many of her movies are distinct and well performed even if it's difficult to call some movies like Requiem for a Dream enjoyable.
Many of the most renowned actors essentially play the same role in their films, and many actors that meld-into the films often are relegated to character-actor status and aren't widely popular or known.
It also helps that the QA engineer has no personal connection to the code. He treats the software as livestock, not as a pet. He isn't bound by personal feelings keep it alive, he can euthanize if it needs it.
...based on the various ways that Kim Cattrall the Vulcan and Kim Cattrall the Coach, Kim Cattrall the seductress, Kim Cattrall the slutty friend, etc have been collaged together...
He's been so public, even with his fairly high-profile failures, that it would probably be difficult to come up with any real dirt that would actually make for a scandal. He'd almost have to do the things that Bill Cosby is accused of in order to be brought down.
Anonymous isn't a structured group. It's a label that individuals apply to themselves. There is no hierarchy, there is no leadership, there is no organizational goal, there is no long term plan. Literally anyone can be Anonymous because it's almost a misnomer to apply the Capital-A to the word.
If Anonymous (with Capital-A) is anything, it's a mindset to do something that's not entirely socially acceptable or whose means are not necessarily acceptable for reasons that are not necessarily personally beneficial. As such, people can ascribe their behaviors to Anonymous. That's why there's no stopping Anonymous, because there isn't even a head to cut-off.
In some ways Anonymous is the anti-Borg. There is no structure, there are only ideas and people voluntarily choosing to pursue the ideas that others come up with, or not choosing to pursue those ideas. If it wasn't for the Guy Fawkes masks and black hoodies I don't think that the mystique surrounding the word would exist at all.
They still do a lot of end-stage testing though. Pressure testing, structural testing, failure-mode testing, load testing, load-shift testing, strike testing, and probably all other manner of tests. They do perform a lot of tests as they develop but that's no replacement for the final-stage testing that confirms predicted behavior or verifies that systems integrate as expected.
To pretend that there's no end-stage testing is simply ridiculous.
I very much doubt that they were smart enough to begin the transition to TDD before they eliminated their QA department.
I worked quality assurance at a very-much test level without really delving into code. Programmers can be effin' stupid at times. I was testing daemons for communications protocols. I took four approaches. Verify that it does what it's supposed to do per RFC. Investigate the behavior when confronted with stale RFCs. Investigate the behavior when it's confronted with non-RFC input that is commonly available in end-user applications (ie, non-malicious incorrect use), and investigate the behavior when malicious intent is used. I can tell you that programmers working on these protocols wrote them to current-RFC only and that they were quite upset when testing obsolete commands from previous versions of RFC broke things, or when the third-party applications sent stuff to the daemons and broke them. I would have been understanding if the software had failed gracefully, with a warning or a 500 code or the like, but when sending obsolete POP3 commands to a POP3 daemon causes it to crash hard, or when encoding an attachment with Mac BinHex instead of MIME makes it crash, both of which were user-selectable options in then-popular Eudora (the client that the company itself used) then there's a big problem. I didn't even have to get to the level of malicious testing things were so bad.
The point of a good quality assurance tester is to concoct out-of-the-box but plausible tests to try to break it. It has a lot in common with Security; it requires a degree of white-hat maliciousness and a need to use other kinds of experiences from other disciplines to devise the scenarios to use. It also requires the tester to have good communications skills as they may have to work to convince the development team that what they've found actually is a problem and being too antisocial or too introverted might not get problems corrected even if they are important and are discovered.
Yahoo is doing a hell of a job in convincing me that they're really not worth paying attention to anymore. They are taking a position that is risky and is arguably excessively risky relative to the size and position of the company.
There will never be an indictment. First, the law at the time probably either didn't make what she is accused of actually a crime, and second, the political witch hunt's lack of relative success has probably ironically provided her with a degree of immunity. Had those investigating not scraped the bottom of the barrel to the point they drew wood shavings it might be different, but the way this has been handled has made it such a non-story that nothing will ever come of it.