In point of fact, the employment situation is, in some ways, worse than the Great Depression. While there may not be 25% full time unemployment, if you count the under-employed, the rate is very close.
Whatever they're smoking in the Netflix executive offices, they need to consider rehab before they run the company into the ground. Anyone with a firm grasp of the obvious knew that Qwikster idea was a loser and then their tone-deaf PR rep comes out and calls their prices increases a "couple of lattes" at a time when unemployment is running at over 9 percent. How does that idiot still have a job?
If the impression they're trying to convey is incompetent management, mission accomplished. The only stupid thing they haven't done is hire Dick Cheney as an image consultant.
Bank of America today said it has not been the victim of a denial of service attack, hacking or malware
So, instead of a victim they're announcing to the world they're incompetent. I'm not at all certain that's an improvement. It was a choice between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea anyway. One way announces their security is sub-standard, the other that they just don't give a crap, which most of their customers already suspected anyway.
There are companies actually selling access to large stocks of video surveillance. Imagine combining facial recognition software with the video from thousands of security cameras. You could do all kinds of scary things.
Take the best pictures and get metallic prints made on Kodak Endura Metallic, Fuji Metallic or Fuji Pearl. Those will last a lifetime and, under the correct lighting, almost look like they're back lit.
I understand the point here is digital storage, all I'm suggesting is there are some advantages to going retro and getting actual lab prints made of the best shots.
That would work almost as well as the guy trying to bring down the bridge in New York with a cutting torch. There are a lot of people with guns in the Pentagon. They would shoot back.
I wonder if that would work? It would probably work better as a certified letter, but if the EULA says it can't be modified outside the EULA, then which instrument has standing?
Outside of the game causing your console to overheat and burn down your house, why would anyone sue a game manufacturer?
Suppose a game manufacturer starts adding extra charges to your credit card? Or one of their third party partners. There's nothing stopping them from doing that now. They can bone you like they own you without fear of anyone holding them accountable until it gets so criminal the State Attorney General has to get involved.
Click through EULA's have gotten entirely out of hand. There's no place to object to the terms or write in the margins, like you can on a real contract. Those margin notes have saved my financial butt many times.
Conveniently, we have plenty of shrill talking heads telling us that the private sector is always more efficient.
That is the biggest lie I saw perpetrated in government contracting. That the private sector could always do a job cheaper. Big, fat lie in most cases. What it did do is keep the number of government workers artificially low while lining the pockets of campaign contributors running the outsource contractors (I'm looking at you CACI).
The occasional benefit to contractors was that getting rid of the incompetent ones was maybe a little easier, but not always even that. We chased a guy off a project where EDS was one of the contractors, but they kept billing him on the project by moving him to a different office. IBM told us they fired one of the project managers on a failed fix cost contract, yet he was mysteriously present at a contractor's presentation on another project.
Security clearances are expensive and finding people who qualify for the clearance and the job is hard, so contracts cheat. Why not? There are no consequences for getting caught. No fines, no suspensions, no loss of government contracts. Sure, there are threats all the time, and one or two might get kicked off a project from time to time. But mostly incompetence slides.
None of those people run their own freelance business. There are days when I'm writing from 7:30 in the morning to 8 or 9 at night and I have to quit because my hands are cramping.
If I only booked an hour a day I would starve. If you're going to work at home, you really have to be a self-motivated person.
As I sit here on a Ubuntu workstation, accessing this site with Chrome, with another open window sporting Firefox, I have to ponder if open source is really as ubiquitous as people think.
You're leaving out non-defense military spending. If you include that the figure is, indeed, closer to 24 percent.
Because we do have to cut entitlements, because that's where the overwhelming budget growth is.
You mean those programs I paid into every day of my working life since I was 16? And now you want to cut them just when I need them and planned my retirement around them. Fat chance.
State governments are complaining about teacher's unions, but they have money to fund their own police departments? WTF? That's almost as bad as spending one dollar out of every four on the military, then telling people on Social Security and Medicare we need to cut their programs.
What has happened to law enforcement in this country that too many of them have started acting like there's no such thing as accountability?
Charging someone for videotaping police never stands up in court, so it's just another example that we're not dealing with the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Pick me for that jury, or just let one person like me on there and this case is over.
we are recommitting ourselves to American leadership in space for years to come.
That's good, because I thought for a minute there you were presiding over a crumbling infrastructure and dying agency that left its best years in the rear view mirror 20 years ago.
Because DHS has so much time and money to spend on other projects. Otherwise, they're a massively over-funded, bloated bureaucracy sticking their nose into places it doesn't belong.
Let's hope it gets on the docket so this type of egregious misuser of the legal system (the patent trolls) can get the press coverage only a Supreme Court case can give it.
You're hoping for relief from the 5 members of the Corporate Supreme Court? The same people who have never met an unreasonable search. I'm guessing that would be pretty friendly venue for a patent troll.
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In point of fact, the employment situation is, in some ways, worse than the Great Depression. While there may not be 25% full time unemployment, if you count the under-employed, the rate is very close.
Whatever they're smoking in the Netflix executive offices, they need to consider rehab before they run the company into the ground. Anyone with a firm grasp of the obvious knew that Qwikster idea was a loser and then their tone-deaf PR rep comes out and calls their prices increases a "couple of lattes" at a time when unemployment is running at over 9 percent. How does that idiot still have a job?
If the impression they're trying to convey is incompetent management, mission accomplished. The only stupid thing they haven't done is hire Dick Cheney as an image consultant.
The makers of the Zune and Windows Mobile teamed up with biggest second-rate mess on the internet. Makes perfect sense to me.
Bank of America today said it has not been the victim of a denial of service attack, hacking or malware
So, instead of a victim they're announcing to the world they're incompetent. I'm not at all certain that's an improvement. It was a choice between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea anyway. One way announces their security is sub-standard, the other that they just don't give a crap, which most of their customers already suspected anyway.
I am a good looking female.
On Slashdot? Are you lost?
There are companies actually selling access to large stocks of video surveillance. Imagine combining facial recognition software with the video from thousands of security cameras. You could do all kinds of scary things.
Take the best pictures and get metallic prints made on Kodak Endura Metallic, Fuji Metallic or Fuji Pearl. Those will last a lifetime and, under the correct lighting, almost look like they're back lit.
I understand the point here is digital storage, all I'm suggesting is there are some advantages to going retro and getting actual lab prints made of the best shots.
That would work almost as well as the guy trying to bring down the bridge in New York with a cutting torch. There are a lot of people with guns in the Pentagon. They would shoot back.
A real, full-size airliner barely put a dent in the Pentagon. A remote controlled plane the size of a Cessna full of C4 would break a few windows.
This guy was a physics major and can't calculate how much C4 it would take to punch a hole in a solid concrete building?
I wonder if that would work? It would probably work better as a certified letter, but if the EULA says it can't be modified outside the EULA, then which instrument has standing?
Those are not easy questions.
Outside of the game causing your console to overheat and burn down your house, why would anyone sue a game manufacturer?
Suppose a game manufacturer starts adding extra charges to your credit card? Or one of their third party partners. There's nothing stopping them from doing that now. They can bone you like they own you without fear of anyone holding them accountable until it gets so criminal the State Attorney General has to get involved.
Click through EULA's have gotten entirely out of hand. There's no place to object to the terms or write in the margins, like you can on a real contract. Those margin notes have saved my financial butt many times.
Conveniently, we have plenty of shrill talking heads telling us that the private sector is always more efficient.
That is the biggest lie I saw perpetrated in government contracting. That the private sector could always do a job cheaper. Big, fat lie in most cases. What it did do is keep the number of government workers artificially low while lining the pockets of campaign contributors running the outsource contractors (I'm looking at you CACI).
The occasional benefit to contractors was that getting rid of the incompetent ones was maybe a little easier, but not always even that. We chased a guy off a project where EDS was one of the contractors, but they kept billing him on the project by moving him to a different office. IBM told us they fired one of the project managers on a failed fix cost contract, yet he was mysteriously present at a contractor's presentation on another project.
Security clearances are expensive and finding people who qualify for the clearance and the job is hard, so contracts cheat. Why not? There are no consequences for getting caught. No fines, no suspensions, no loss of government contracts. Sure, there are threats all the time, and one or two might get kicked off a project from time to time. But mostly incompetence slides.
I work from home about 25 hours a week, and it pays the bills. I'm pretty happy with it.
I guess! 25 hours a week would be like a vacation.
Maybe I need to charge more....
only clock in for an hour or less a day
None of those people run their own freelance business. There are days when I'm writing from 7:30 in the morning to 8 or 9 at night and I have to quit because my hands are cramping.
If I only booked an hour a day I would starve. If you're going to work at home, you really have to be a self-motivated person.
As I sit here on a Ubuntu workstation, accessing this site with Chrome, with another open window sporting Firefox, I have to ponder if open source is really as ubiquitous as people think.
In Russia it's called a bribe, in the U.S. it's called "lobbying".
Will likely have a different opinion. To them the constitution only applies to corporations.
The DOD budget is 20 percent.
You're leaving out non-defense military spending. If you include that the figure is, indeed, closer to 24 percent.
Because we do have to cut entitlements, because that's where the overwhelming budget growth is.
You mean those programs I paid into every day of my working life since I was 16? And now you want to cut them just when I need them and planned my retirement around them. Fat chance.
State governments are complaining about teacher's unions, but they have money to fund their own police departments? WTF? That's almost as bad as spending one dollar out of every four on the military, then telling people on Social Security and Medicare we need to cut their programs.
What has happened to law enforcement in this country that too many of them have started acting like there's no such thing as accountability?
Charging someone for videotaping police never stands up in court, so it's just another example that we're not dealing with the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Pick me for that jury, or just let one person like me on there and this case is over.
we are recommitting ourselves to American leadership in space for years to come.
That's good, because I thought for a minute there you were presiding over a crumbling infrastructure and dying agency that left its best years in the rear view mirror 20 years ago.
May I present the latest in facial recognition software defense. The $0.25 solution.
I was wondering how the virus was going to get developed. Now we know.
Because DHS has so much time and money to spend on other projects. Otherwise, they're a massively over-funded, bloated bureaucracy sticking their nose into places it doesn't belong.
It's one or the other.
Let's hope it gets on the docket so this type of egregious misuser of the legal system (the patent trolls) can get the press coverage only a Supreme Court case can give it.
You're hoping for relief from the 5 members of the Corporate Supreme Court? The same people who have never met an unreasonable search. I'm guessing that would be pretty friendly venue for a patent troll.