I'm sorry??? There are a LOT of accusation of frauds *ant* tampering. Maybe you should take a look at http://www.votoseguro.org/ . Whether these are real frauds or not, we'll probably never know.
Even though I don't think that "our" (I'm Brazilian) voting machine could be much better, I don't think that paper+pen works better.
In the past, when candidate A was part of the government, there used to be a lot of "accidents" with the vehicles carrying the voting papers from locations on which candidate B was known to have a good number of votes.
1) Diebold is the hardware provider. 2) The source code for VirtuOS is not available. As TFA suggests, it'll be fixed in the future. 3) There's no paper trail. Then, you *have* to trust what the machine says. 4) New *improved* machines were tested in three cities. These improved machines have "biometric recognition" of the voters. Aren't you scared of being identified in the same machine you are using to put your vote? 5) In some remote locations, a notebook + special hardware pointed to a satellite sends the voting data to the TSE (the main public entity behind election matters). Notebook?? Yes. Doesn't it rings a bell?
Did you RTFA? The guy asked for a programming training and it was denied. He studied for himself, wrote the software by himself, and bring it to the office, to get his job done. Thus, USAF didn't paid him to write this software. It is *his* software, and he has the right to sell/rent/loan it to anyone he wants, including his employer.
The same applies for every job in the world: you can do whatever you want in your spare time, unless it competes with what the company you work for produces.
To be honest, this kind of clueless recruiters/companies is not the kind of employer I want for me... Real recruiters/companies makes interviews, applies tests and takes actual references instead of just "googling" one's name.
"... but the cold reality is that most moderately successful recording artists find it incredibly hard to earn a decent living in a fickle and competitive industry..." >> even for selling legal CD's in music stores.
At least here in Brazil, artists used to say they only earn real money by doing shows and tours across the country/world.
Same here. My AllofMp3 account was "transferred" to mp3sparks (which is pretty the same site with other skin) and I did payments without problems. I just wonder when they'll launch the "yarmp3.com" (alias for yetanotherrussianmp3site.com)...
That's funny, actually. At least to us here in Brazil, we talk in english only at work. So, we don't have "local slangs" in english:-) Sometimes, we translate some slang in portuguese to english, just for fun. Obviously, it doesn't works. But if we see some slang we don't know and the other person is not that close to you, there's always an explanation on the internet. Or just ask another co-worker. But the funny part is that everybody now tries to say some words in the other's language. So, everybody knows some portuguese/hindi/spanish words.
Unrelated: I can say that I would have that reaction:-) You know, we don't have snow here in Brazil. But I know what you mean... It is probably the same reaction an indian guy from US team had when he was at the Sugar Loaf, in Rio de Janeiro. But there is not much travel in our team. Last year 3 people from Brazil team and 2 from Mexico were at US, one guy from US team were here two months ago and this month one guy from India team was at US. The main excuse is the same: training (to get or to give), but I can see many other benefits from it (as you probably knows).
Inter-team communications within company, light to no use of emoticons, some slang (if teams in same country) Intra-team, emoticons, abbrv, AFK, BRB, etc. slang. vastly more acceptable. In the team I work, we use slangs, abbrevs and emoticons. Everybody is close enough to ask "what does that means" if we are not familiar with some slang/abbrev/emoticon. We used to talk a lot on the phone and IM. It makes us feel like talking to the guy in the other cube even if he is actually in other country (10 people in Brazil, 5 in India, 2 in Mexico and about 15 in US).
Not sure if I missed some kind of sarcasm, but if there is one person in the world who understands what web means, the name of this person is Tim Berners-Lee.
... this cables wouldn't last one single day. People here (in São Paulo) steals low-tech copper telephony cables. How about high-tech "high temperature superconductor power cable"?
Yes, you can:-) The original point was that the job was outsourced to someone else for 16hr, so, it is possible *and companies are doing that*.
The same costs you presented are valid for jobs anywhere in the world, including US. Also, there are lot of stories here in/. about fresh people from university who don't want to start from the beginning. They want to start as architects. So, US have the same problem as you pointed to India: architects with no experience:-)
There are certainly more experienced architects in US, but there are also more job offerings (so, less experienced architects available for hire).
"Know absolutely nothing about computers"... Dude, you are wrong... Not to be rude, but with US$ 16hr you can hire an architect in India which probably knows more than you:-)
No. Actually, the jobs will get back to US when the salaries goes down. You know, economic laws... If there are too many workers for a position, the salaries goes down. If there are few workers for a position, the salaries goes up.
*Who* said every job is going to India? To avoid this kind of skyrocketing in wages, *if they are really going to layoff that many jobs*, they will distribute them among many countries... Hungary, Romania, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, India, China,... There are lot of countries with competent IT professionals out there.
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I'm sorry??? There are a LOT of accusation of frauds *ant* tampering. Maybe you should take a look at http://www.votoseguro.org/ . Whether these are real frauds or not, we'll probably never know.
Even though I don't think that "our" (I'm Brazilian) voting machine could be much better, I don't think that paper+pen works better.
In the past, when candidate A was part of the government, there used to be a lot of "accidents" with the vehicles carrying the voting papers from locations on which candidate B was known to have a good number of votes.
You forgot to say some things:
1) Diebold is the hardware provider.
2) The source code for VirtuOS is not available. As TFA suggests, it'll be fixed in the future.
3) There's no paper trail. Then, you *have* to trust what the machine says.
4) New *improved* machines were tested in three cities. These improved machines have "biometric recognition" of the voters. Aren't you scared of being identified in the same machine you are using to put your vote?
5) In some remote locations, a notebook + special hardware pointed to a satellite sends the voting data to the TSE (the main public entity behind election matters). Notebook?? Yes. Doesn't it rings a bell?
Did you RTFA? The guy asked for a programming training and it was denied. He studied for himself, wrote the software by himself, and bring it to the office, to get his job done. Thus, USAF didn't paid him to write this software. It is *his* software, and he has the right to sell/rent/loan it to anyone he wants, including his employer.
The same applies for every job in the world: you can do whatever you want in your spare time, unless it competes with what the company you work for produces.
Learn the language of the country you are living on is *never* a waste of time. It is, at least, a sign of respect to other's culture.
To be honest, this kind of clueless recruiters/companies is not the kind of employer I want for me... Real recruiters/companies makes interviews, applies tests and takes actual references instead of just "googling" one's name.
"Because I'm competent at my work. What I do outside the company isn't an indicator of my competence or lack of professionalism"
Let me complement it:
"... but the cold reality is that most moderately successful recording artists find it incredibly hard to earn a decent living in a fickle and competitive industry..." >> even for selling legal CD's in music stores.
At least here in Brazil, artists used to say they only earn real money by doing shows and tours across the country/world.
Same here. My AllofMp3 account was "transferred" to mp3sparks (which is pretty the same site with other skin) and I did payments without problems. I just wonder when they'll launch the "yarmp3.com" (alias for yetanotherrussianmp3site.com)...
That's funny, actually. At least to us here in Brazil, we talk in english only at work. So, we don't have "local slangs" in english :-) Sometimes, we translate some slang in portuguese to english, just for fun. Obviously, it doesn't works. But if we see some slang we don't know and the other person is not that close to you, there's always an explanation on the internet. Or just ask another co-worker. But the funny part is that everybody now tries to say some words in the other's language. So, everybody knows some portuguese/hindi/spanish words.
:-) You know, we don't have snow here in Brazil. But I know what you mean... It is probably the same reaction an indian guy from US team had when he was at the Sugar Loaf, in Rio de Janeiro. But there is not much travel in our team. Last year 3 people from Brazil team and 2 from Mexico were at US, one guy from US team were here two months ago and this month one guy from India team was at US. The main excuse is the same: training (to get or to give), but I can see many other benefits from it (as you probably knows).
Unrelated: I can say that I would have that reaction
Intra-team, emoticons, abbrv, AFK, BRB, etc. slang. vastly more acceptable. In the team I work, we use slangs, abbrevs and emoticons. Everybody is close enough to ask "what does that means" if we are not familiar with some slang/abbrev/emoticon. We used to talk a lot on the phone and IM. It makes us feel like talking to the guy in the other cube even if he is actually in other country (10 people in Brazil, 5 in India, 2 in Mexico and about 15 in US).
Not sure if I missed some kind of sarcasm, but if there is one person in the world who understands what web means, the name of this person is Tim Berners-Lee.
Links please?
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Statistics for 2007, directly from Secunia website:
- OSX
Affected By 103 Secunia advisories
Unpatched 5% (5 of 103 Secunia advisories)
- XP
Affected By 186 Secunia advisories
Unpatched 16% (30 of 186 Secunia advisories)
- Vista
Affected By 10 Secunia advisories
Unpatched 20% (2 of 10 Secunia advisories)
Source:
http://secunia.com/product/13223/?task=statistics
http://secunia.com/product/22/?task=statistics_20
http://secunia.com/product/96/?task=statistics_20
... this cables wouldn't last one single day. People here (in São Paulo) steals low-tech copper telephony cables. How about high-tech "high temperature superconductor power cable"?
Let's also not forget that any JavaScript is essentially open source
Hold on, Cowboy... The fact that javascript can easily be viewed doesn't make it open source. Don't mess the things upw3c.org . There's no better place to keep the standards related to the web.
Yes, you can :-)
/. about fresh people from university who don't want to start from the beginning. They want to start as architects. So, US have the same problem as you pointed to India: architects with no experience :-)
The original point was that the job was outsourced to someone else for 16hr, so, it is possible *and companies are doing that*.
The same costs you presented are valid for jobs anywhere in the world, including US. Also, there are lot of stories here in
There are certainly more experienced architects in US, but there are also more job offerings (so, less experienced architects available for hire).
If your old customers are suffering that much, why don't they hire another consulting company?
And you wonder why jobs are going to India...
"Know absolutely nothing about computers"... Dude, you are wrong... Not to be rude, but with US$ 16hr you can hire an architect in India which probably knows more than you :-)
No. Actually, the jobs will get back to US when the salaries goes down. You know, economic laws... If there are too many workers for a position, the salaries goes down. If there are few workers for a position, the salaries goes up.
*Who* said every job is going to India? To avoid this kind of skyrocketing in wages, *if they are really going to layoff that many jobs*, they will distribute them among many countries... Hungary, Romania, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, India, China, ... There are lot of countries with competent IT professionals out there.
Meetings are toxic.
In Brazil, we would say: "Olha o sujo falando do mal lavado...", which is something like "Look the dirty talking about the bad cleaned...".
Also, if you're an Australian citizen and allegedly break an American law (because some Americans says you did, with no evidence whatsoever), you can expect the AU law enforcement to fully cooperate with the American "authorities" in extraditing you.