Well they have all the money now so they get to pay the price!
You go where the money is. The economy in the U.S. is spiraling down. The EU is doing well. So you charge those that have the money and take what little money those that don't have it too.
I guess the author wasn't worried about any events or transactions that were in the process of being committed. Nor has he managed any production databases.
Next thing you know there will be an article about not being able to surf the web when the Internet connection is down.
Today at Black Hat the DNS exploit was explained and demonstrated in full. After getting 98% of the systems running DNS to apply an urgent patch it was disclosed that the patch was the hack. All patched DNS servers were then compromised during the Black Hat demonstration. This shows how a process can be used to introduce code that allows an outside entity full control of all systems on the network. During the demonstration Dan repeated his statement, "stop complaining, we've all got a lot of work to do by August 7 and it's a little silly to spend any time arguing when we need to be patching." Obviously he was refering to all the work he had to do to coordinate the largest take over of the Internet. A bot net of 100,000,000 systems was created in just a few minutes.
They had flown several test flights with the 1/3rd size test ship. The last landing it made one of the landing legs failed to deploy correctly so it toppled over with catastrophic results. That would appear to be a fairly easy problem to solve. I assume that since they had flown several flights that they had solved the fuel tank issues. But that is an assumption.
The soviet capsules are there for emergency evacuation of the station. The problem of trying to leave a shuttle up there just in case something happened is that the shuttle is not designed to sit up there for extremely long periods of time. By the time something happened where they might need to use the shuttle to come back down any number of systems would no longer be working as expected.
The system needs to be retired and replaced with a true single stage to orbit vehicle. They had one in development, the Delta Clipper, but it was cancelled shortly after a failed test flight. Up to that point it worked well. And the failure was due to a landing leg not extending correctly.
Like many have recommended you should keep all options open. Maintain an updated resume. You never know when someone will mention they are looking to hire. And don't get drawn into the company line about people being their number one asset or any such bullshit. People are one of the first things a company will jettison if they think it will help the bottom line. The days of cradle to grave at a company are long gone. Employment is pretty much at will everywhere.
The one thing to keep in mind is that if/when you decide to make the move, just make the move. Don't look back and don't dwell on what could have been. It won't do you or anyone any good. Don't burn any bridges but don't hold fret about the old job. If the new one sucks (which most of them do) then work it until you find something else.
Who here really things the Internet is going to hit some capacity ceiling? Get over it. It won't happen. Did not happen to USENET back in the day and won't happen now.
And when will the editors learn to read or at least use a spell checker?
If they keep going this way then they will eventually pass the Clone act which requires everyone to have the genetic make up and the point of view of Al Gore (arbitrary politician and well known name selected, feel free to replace with your own favorite...). Then everyone will look, act, and believe the same. We are just a few laws away from such things.
So what happens when they tax something that you like to do? You like to watch TV? Let's throw a $10,000 a year tax on all TVs. That would do a lot of good. Less people watching TV. They might read more or actually get outside more.
Oh, we are killing to many trees. Lets put a $100 tax on all books. That will reduce the number of trees used to print books since most people would no longer be able to buy one. That would force those people to get outside more which is a good thing.
And peoples diets should not be legislated. This a bad law and will result in more bad laws. Why not institute a law that if a parent is obese any children in that home must be turned over to the state since it is a fact that obese parents tend to have obese children.
You are right! Let's test everyone and anyone that has bad genes should be rounded up and put into a fat camp, or near sighted camp, or bald camp, or to many freckles camp! Let's clean up the gene pool!
If you legislate laws that penalize companies those companies will implement plans to minimize their costs. If an employee that is obese or smokes costs the company more that cost will either be pushed directly onto the employee or the company will do things to discourage such employees from staying at that company. Companies will lay off people that will tend to impact their bottom lines. They will also discourage such employees from even applying for jobs and refuse to hire people that don't comply.
Right now most companies will run a drug screen for anyone that is being hired. If they fail they are fired. The same will happen here. The movie GATTACA actually does a good job of showing where such legislation could get to. Your entire existence would be determined by your genes. Only skinny people with pointed hair would get to be management. Those with a predisposition to being heavier than the "norm" are limited to hauling garbage.
The next thing they will do is implement a network monitoring system that bases your insurance and mortgage rates as well as what jobs you get on the sites that you visit on line and what protocols you use. What better way to impose control over people and the Internet?
So the employer becomes responsible for what each person does at all times. This means that the employer will need to setup dormitories so they can monitor all activity. Any activity that deviates from the legislated "norm" would be actionable. Those found in violation would be fired for cause. The sad part is that if one company fires you for one of these "lifestyle laws" *(trade mark pending) no other company is going to hire you. It will be like having a felony conviction.
An slowly over time we will breed people that meet the minimum requirements to fill all jobs. Of course by then we will be able at birth to identify the genes that lead to possible "lifestyle law"* violations and terminate the embryo before it comes to term.
So lets carry this through to the logical end. Grocery stores and restaurants would be required to have different sections. There would be sections for those that can fit through a door this size (think of the carry on bag devices at the airport or the little height signs, turned 90 degrees, at the amusement park). In those sections you can eat anything that you can afford to buy. There would of course be the special door where the rich can purchase a dispensation to enter the premium food areas.
Then there is the section that you get rolled to if you can't fit through the other door where you can eat bland "nutritious" food. This would consist of the poor quality stuff that the skinny and rich don't want. You know, the rice cakes, and the small portion weight watchers stuff.
Of course the poor food areas would have to be supplemented by taxes on everyone else. The problem here is that over time I suspect that more and more people would be forced into the poor sections since all their available income would be spent in taxes.
But after a few decades of selectively blocking certain people from making a living (obviously this means that companies won't hire people that are large in size) the problem will go away. Only the eloi I mean skinny people will be left and the companies will make sure that if one of the eloi I mean skinny people happen to get to large they will be fired. Evolution will take care of the rest. Obese people will be rounded up and herded into fat camps and starved to death.
Of course I wonder what happens when a women gets pregnant? Based on the rules the company would be fined if they let her stay on the job. So the best practice is going to be to fire the pregnant women and hope that after the kid is born they get back to their working size very quickly in the hopes that someone will rehire them.
Sadly those are the role models that kids get today. It is pounded into their heads via the TV for 8 or 12 hours a day. Sometimes more.
I do agree with you about politicians and business people being exceptionally poor roll models as well. Anymore you have to suspect someone of nefarious intentions when they run for office. But then we have evolved our politicians into the two faced sound bite machines that they have become.
That one always amazes me too. I can remember way back when people would "collect" software. They had boxes of disks with all kinds of commercial software that they had acquired without paying for it. They were amazed anyone would turn down a copy of the latest DBase software or AutoCad or Wordstar. And they did not see it as stealing but some kind of right that they had because they could make the copy. Very sad really.
Actually it goes on more than one would think. Particularly in retail places. Those cameras you see at the check outs are not there primarily to watch for shop lifters or customers, it is there to watch the cashier and try and catch them shorting the till or pocketing money or merchandise.
Cashier's have been caught stealing from their own till as well as other cashier's tills many many times. It is more difficult in banks but it goes on there as well.
As such your statement "Most of the general population is generally honest and of good character." is suspect if not inaccurate. There have been many studies that show most people would steal if they thought they would not be caught.
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That would still be a pay cut.
And take a pay cut?
Well they have all the money now so they get to pay the price!
You go where the money is. The economy in the U.S. is spiraling down. The EU is doing well. So you charge those that have the money and take what little money those that don't have it too.
Post this under most obvious thing ever!
I guess the author wasn't worried about any events or transactions that were in the process of being committed. Nor has he managed any production databases.
Next thing you know there will be an article about not being able to surf the web when the Internet connection is down.
Today at Black Hat the DNS exploit was explained and demonstrated in full. After getting 98% of the systems running DNS to apply an urgent patch it was disclosed that the patch was the hack. All patched DNS servers were then compromised during the Black Hat demonstration. This shows how a process can be used to introduce code that allows an outside entity full control of all systems on the network. During the demonstration Dan repeated his statement, "stop complaining, we've all got a lot of work to do by August 7 and it's a little silly to spend any time arguing when we need to be patching." Obviously he was refering to all the work he had to do to coordinate the largest take over of the Internet. A bot net of 100,000,000 systems was created in just a few minutes.
They had flown several test flights with the 1/3rd size test ship. The last landing it made one of the landing legs failed to deploy correctly so it toppled over with catastrophic results. That would appear to be a fairly easy problem to solve. I assume that since they had flown several flights that they had solved the fuel tank issues. But that is an assumption.
The soviet capsules are there for emergency evacuation of the station. The problem of trying to leave a shuttle up there just in case something happened is that the shuttle is not designed to sit up there for extremely long periods of time. By the time something happened where they might need to use the shuttle to come back down any number of systems would no longer be working as expected.
The system needs to be retired and replaced with a true single stage to orbit vehicle. They had one in development, the Delta Clipper, but it was cancelled shortly after a failed test flight. Up to that point it worked well. And the failure was due to a landing leg not extending correctly.
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/x-33/dc-xa.htm
Like many have recommended you should keep all options open. Maintain an updated resume. You never know when someone will mention they are looking to hire. And don't get drawn into the company line about people being their number one asset or any such bullshit. People are one of the first things a company will jettison if they think it will help the bottom line. The days of cradle to grave at a company are long gone. Employment is pretty much at will everywhere.
The one thing to keep in mind is that if/when you decide to make the move, just make the move. Don't look back and don't dwell on what could have been. It won't do you or anyone any good. Don't burn any bridges but don't hold fret about the old job. If the new one sucks (which most of them do) then work it until you find something else.
Who here really things the Internet is going to hit some capacity ceiling? Get over it. It won't happen. Did not happen to USENET back in the day and won't happen now.
And when will the editors learn to read or at least use a spell checker?
Excellent point. The parent should be modded up.
If they keep going this way then they will eventually pass the Clone act which requires everyone to have the genetic make up and the point of view of Al Gore (arbitrary politician and well known name selected, feel free to replace with your own favorite...). Then everyone will look, act, and believe the same. We are just a few laws away from such things.
So what happens when they tax something that you like to do? You like to watch TV? Let's throw a $10,000 a year tax on all TVs. That would do a lot of good. Less people watching TV. They might read more or actually get outside more.
Oh, we are killing to many trees. Lets put a $100 tax on all books. That will reduce the number of trees used to print books since most people would no longer be able to buy one. That would force those people to get outside more which is a good thing.
This is a bad idea.
Tell that to a large percentage of people in San Fransisco.
And peoples diets should not be legislated. This a bad law and will result in more bad laws. Why not institute a law that if a parent is obese any children in that home must be turned over to the state since it is a fact that obese parents tend to have obese children.
Right, and you live in your parents basement and work at the pizzeria. Everyone is more interesting "Online".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_(song)
You are right! Let's test everyone and anyone that has bad genes should be rounded up and put into a fat camp, or near sighted camp, or bald camp, or to many freckles camp! Let's clean up the gene pool!
Some how I think this has been tried before.....
If you legislate laws that penalize companies those companies will implement plans to minimize their costs. If an employee that is obese or smokes costs the company more that cost will either be pushed directly onto the employee or the company will do things to discourage such employees from staying at that company. Companies will lay off people that will tend to impact their bottom lines. They will also discourage such employees from even applying for jobs and refuse to hire people that don't comply.
Right now most companies will run a drug screen for anyone that is being hired. If they fail they are fired. The same will happen here. The movie GATTACA actually does a good job of showing where such legislation could get to. Your entire existence would be determined by your genes. Only skinny people with pointed hair would get to be management. Those with a predisposition to being heavier than the "norm" are limited to hauling garbage.
The next thing they will do is implement a network monitoring system that bases your insurance and mortgage rates as well as what jobs you get on the sites that you visit on line and what protocols you use. What better way to impose control over people and the Internet?
No. You will need to get a girdle to squeeze you down to the approved size. You can stay the same weight but the waist line has to fit the metric.
hmm, I think there is a business opportunity here.....
So the employer becomes responsible for what each person does at all times. This means that the employer will need to setup dormitories so they can monitor all activity. Any activity that deviates from the legislated "norm" would be actionable. Those found in violation would be fired for cause. The sad part is that if one company fires you for one of these "lifestyle laws" *(trade mark pending) no other company is going to hire you. It will be like having a felony conviction.
An slowly over time we will breed people that meet the minimum requirements to fill all jobs. Of course by then we will be able at birth to identify the genes that lead to possible "lifestyle law"* violations and terminate the embryo before it comes to term.
So lets carry this through to the logical end. Grocery stores and restaurants would be required to have different sections. There would be sections for those that can fit through a door this size (think of the carry on bag devices at the airport or the little height signs, turned 90 degrees, at the amusement park). In those sections you can eat anything that you can afford to buy. There would of course be the special door where the rich can purchase a dispensation to enter the premium food areas.
Then there is the section that you get rolled to if you can't fit through the other door where you can eat bland "nutritious" food. This would consist of the poor quality stuff that the skinny and rich don't want. You know, the rice cakes, and the small portion weight watchers stuff.
Of course the poor food areas would have to be supplemented by taxes on everyone else. The problem here is that over time I suspect that more and more people would be forced into the poor sections since all their available income would be spent in taxes.
But after a few decades of selectively blocking certain people from making a living (obviously this means that companies won't hire people that are large in size) the problem will go away. Only the eloi I mean skinny people will be left and the companies will make sure that if one of the eloi I mean skinny people happen to get to large they will be fired. Evolution will take care of the rest. Obese people will be rounded up and herded into fat camps and starved to death.
Of course I wonder what happens when a women gets pregnant? Based on the rules the company would be fined if they let her stay on the job. So the best practice is going to be to fire the pregnant women and hope that after the kid is born they get back to their working size very quickly in the hopes that someone will rehire them.
Flamebait? Someone that apparently steals software has some mod points. I'll bet they read co-workers emails too.
No, I don't hold video games responsible for the ethical decline of this country. I should have placed more blame on the parents where it belongs.
Sadly those are the role models that kids get today. It is pounded into their heads via the TV for 8 or 12 hours a day. Sometimes more.
I do agree with you about politicians and business people being exceptionally poor roll models as well. Anymore you have to suspect someone of nefarious intentions when they run for office. But then we have evolved our politicians into the two faced sound bite machines that they have become.
That one always amazes me too. I can remember way back when people would "collect" software. They had boxes of disks with all kinds of commercial software that they had acquired without paying for it. They were amazed anyone would turn down a copy of the latest DBase software or AutoCad or Wordstar. And they did not see it as stealing but some kind of right that they had because they could make the copy. Very sad really.
Actually it goes on more than one would think. Particularly in retail places. Those cameras you see at the check outs are not there primarily to watch for shop lifters or customers, it is there to watch the cashier and try and catch them shorting the till or pocketing money or merchandise.
Cashier's have been caught stealing from their own till as well as other cashier's tills many many times. It is more difficult in banks but it goes on there as well.
As such your statement "Most of the general population is generally honest and of good character." is suspect if not inaccurate. There have been many studies that show most people would steal if they thought they would not be caught.