They're not saying that the social networks are causing the civil unrest, what they're saying is that they're allowing those organizing it a much easier time communicating plan changes as it goes on. Shutting down those lines of communication would make it easier for the authorities to stop the unrest.
That makes sense. The government's job it to keep order and this is one way to aid that when things get out of hand. Remember the UK does have a very real terrorist threat in Northern Ireland. They need to think aobut these kinds of things, draconian as they are. It's inportant that they have this power, however the manner in which they weild it is far more important.
Wind Mobile does this in Canada. They say you have unlimited but if you go over 2GB, I think, they de-prioritize you and you get throttled if the network needs you throttled.
I agree with it completely, so long as they tell everyone exactly where the line is
At least with Roger and Fido pre-paid, which I both sold, they don't check a credit card. They only need a Canadian address and that was only used for account verification if you called in. Many times I had foreign customers just pull a random address out of the phone book. Payment was taken through our store credit card machine. You might have a problem buying refills over the phone, but buying top-ups from a kiosk or store is not a problem at all.
It's a bit cheaper to go with a monthly plan, but that needs valid Canadian ID
What drives me nuts is the over use of Foo and Bar as labels in programming examples. I completely failed my first course on C++ in college because the instructor would use nothing but Foo and Bar and derivatives for everything in his examples. I would get so lost because everything would look exactly the same and I would confuse foofoobar for foobarfoo (Made much worse when I would drift with my ADHD and come back and try to figure out what he did during the 2 minutes I wasn't paying attention).
Luckily now that I'm back in school 10 years later, my programming instructor has stressed that whatever you label you label it for what it does or what it will store, no matter how small or simple the program is going to be. Much easier to follow along now.
I'm primarily a pedestrian, so I've had time to test out the walk button. Most of the time, the walk button only makes the walk sign change, otherwise it just says at the stop hand icon.
The times it does change things is usually near parks or by little used streets where if it was disconnected you'd be waiting a very long time.
Not in the case of Mr. Simmons. He's got his hands in every pocket of every person attached to his music. He hates piracy and filesharing, not so much because it hurts his bottom line, but that he doesn't have control over it and can manipulate it to better his image and make more money.
I believe the point here is that software designers should assume that in terms of security their users are complete idiots and WILL install and setup the program in an unsecure manner unless they are specifically beat over the head with the notion that what they are doing is BAD!
Obviously you don't have children yourself. As a parent, one of my worst fears is: "that could happen to my child."
So you're childless when you get the job, then a bit down the road you have one and then it starts hitting you. Or the nature of the job changes and you're now exposed to something that you weren't before (A site being used to evade child porn investigations would absolutly qualify if it wasn't when you started)
Sometimes you don't know what you're going to be exposed to until you already are, you think you can handle anything until you don't. It's why people say, "you wish you could unsee something". Or you think you're cool with it, but then it comes back a a horrifying flash at random moments or in a dream, the mind is weird that way.
If it's bad enough and fast enough, they call it Post Traumatic Stress.
Very true. As a CSR your treated like shit by the customer because of restrictive policies that keep you from doing a good job and your treated like shit by the management because you are so easily replaced they don't have to care.
My usual line when it comes to Phone reps is that 20% will be fired within 3 months because they just got the job for the 6 weeks or so of paid training (I knew someone who decided to quit by just putting his headset on the table and reading a book, still in the phone queue, lasted a month before they found out his calls were just dead air) 70% are doing their jobs just to the letter and don't give a shit about you or the job their doing and 10% actually care and try to do what's best for you. That 10% usually quit after 6 months to a year from stress and disillusionment.
I work for Fido Wireless now. Our website actually gives you the steps and walks your through them for a complaint escalation all the way up to the ombudsman. I can, without fear of reprecusions advise customers exactly how to get what they need. I also don't work the phones anymore.
I prefer this model of billing. A set clear limit is better for the company as they can have more accurate costs for bandwidth usage and for the consumer they know exactly what they're getting and can deal with situations where they need more then they have.
I work for Rogers and Fido dealership here in Canada and I can say that the vast majority of smartphone users rarely go over 1gb and most even stay within 500mb (I've been shown the internal numbers). Hell I have a dealer line with 5gb and I find it rare for me to break 2gb without tethering.
It's not the limits I have a problem with, it's the pricing. I'm sure the cost for O2's data plans are WAY higher than they need to be.
Sounds so very similar to ADHD. Only those of us with ADHD aren't just distracted by gadgets, we're potentially distracted by everything. Hell I get distracted by the array of spices in my cupboard (when I'm supposed to be preparing dinner, to the frustration of my wife)
I find that I'm buying mre DVDs butusually it's the DVDs that are in the bin that are between $5-12, they're old but they're good. It would be the same for cds but I find I don't really even download anymore. I have a nice collection of music I like and haven't found anything that's come out in the last few years that really interests me beyond the occational listen on the radio.
It will work, but the music industry as a whole just needs to step up the quality of music being made.
Nothing too suprising in the article. Mark Zuckerberg just came off as a guy who would screw over his own grandmother if it got him ahead. From what I've read those are qualities needed in the boardrooms of america. To have any kind of scruples at that level requires some serious business talent, if anything just to keep you from being screwed over by all the other asses.
Facebook has time and time again shown that it will push all boundries it can to gain users and gain assets from those users. Mr. Zuckerberg was just too young when founding facebook to realize that he needed to be a bit more subtle when talking to others as it could come back to bit him on the ass.
A blob of epoxy on the sdcard would have prevented it, or perhaps a more complex reconfiguring then editing ONE LINE in a file. Furthermore why the hell does the cellular connection have full internet access. I mean it should be locked down to only what B&N want you to access on AT&T's side.
An unless the Terms and conditions of service state anything about accessing parts of the internet that B&N don't approve, these guys aren't breaking any laws.
I worked tech support for Apple, I was front line on the phone, I did that for 2 years.
There was no real advancment for a technical person. The reason? Outsourcing. I worked, not for Apple, but for Minacs Inc. Mincas is not a computer company, they are a call centre company. So the promotion line was up to team leader and manager positions, which are just classic non-tech manager jobs: employee evaluations, quota targets, avg phone times, etc... Anyone with a degree in anything technical or scientific would be going in the wrong direction there. You could maybe get a job with the IT dept, if they were ever hireing and then you'd have to get them to hire someone off the call floor. since we weren't Apple, we didn't have every dept. Tier 2 was in California, in fact we only had front line agents, so the only place I could got was to a management position that was usually filled with people who spent more of their day manipulating the call tracking system to make them look better on paper than the people who actually did their jobs well. Yeah the people who just hang up on you are the ones who are put in charge.
The jobs are good money for when you need it. But it can be hard to get out of it when it can take months to find a job in your actual field and sometimes a promotion at a particular company isn't actually beneficial.
It's unfortunate that you would think that taking this kind of job right out of the gate is bad. Really sometimes it's the only option. Call centres especially incoming call centres like tech support pay higher per hour than most places in the city they are located in, and anyone with higher than average computer skills can easily get a job.
For someone who just got out of school and now has a TON of bills that they need to pay and need to pay now, a tech support job can be landed quick and easily and it pays. That also makes it tough to leave when you just got mastercard to stop calling you daily. Promotion for many people is not an option as it takes a certain kind of person to get a management job at a call centre and I don't mean it as a compliment.
I've done the customer service and tech support rounds for a couple years in the call centres and it was well paid torture.
As for the resume, focus on what it was that _you_ actually did for the company and customers and try for a smaller company that might be able to see past the job title
It's not really that the Administration wanted 9/11. In fact the Administration hadn't been in power all that long when it happened. What it seems to me is that the existing infrastructure of the US government, dealing with intelligence and foreign policy, basically let this happen. Maybe the CIA even pushed and prodded a few people to help move along the anti-US sentiment. With the Soviet Union gone, the States needed a new enemy. Terrorists are perfect, they can be anywhere and anyone. Religious fanaticism is a great reason as a good number of Americans are either God fearing themselves or understand the concept. Islam is the best choice for the religion because Islamic countries have been quite anti-US (Iran and Iraq), Islam is usually identified with a visible minority in the US (Easy for the public to picture an enemy) but anyone could be a Muslim so you still have that anyone, anywhere aspect.
I think the US wanted to be attacked, they just didn't expect it to be so big.
As for WTC-7. All the photos I've seen do make it look like a somewhat controlled demolition. I don't think the fire could have done things quite like that. The small CIA office that was in there probably had some info and operations that were more sensitive than they are willing to admit, and they blew the building to avoid the possibility of it getting out.
I do believe that the US Government did have something to do with Al Queda and the like becoming the big enemy in the American eyes, I just don't believe they directly involved with 9/11. I just can't see that kind of complex conspiracy holding up.
For those of us just north of the border, the price difference is much more noticeable. For the exact same product there's at least a minimum of a 30% difference, more often it's more. It's especially apparent recently when the US dollar dropped and the exchange wasn't as much.
When the USD tanked all the economic experts up her said the same thing about pricing. It's not that rest of the world is willing to pay more, it's that Americans aren't willing to pay more. European companies charge more in their own countries than in the states simply because the US market won't tolerate a higher price. I mean the US economy is quickly going in the toilet, yet the only major price hikes have been in oil.
I live in Canada and know the pain of throttled traffic. However I do agree that bandwidth is not free and the we can't continue to have unlimited. Right now my ISP has a cap of 200GB for 29.95. I find that reasonable. If I use too much bandwidth, I pay for it, but anyone using the internet reasonably is fine and will be fine for the next few years at least anyway.
I don't mind having to pay extra if I use an unreasonable amount of the network, but my definition of reasonable and most ISPs seem to differ
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They're not saying that the social networks are causing the civil unrest, what they're saying is that they're allowing those organizing it a much easier time communicating plan changes as it goes on. Shutting down those lines of communication would make it easier for the authorities to stop the unrest.
That makes sense. The government's job it to keep order and this is one way to aid that when things get out of hand. Remember the UK does have a very real terrorist threat in Northern Ireland. They need to think aobut these kinds of things, draconian as they are. It's inportant that they have this power, however the manner in which they weild it is far more important.
Wind Mobile does this in Canada. They say you have unlimited but if you go over 2GB, I think, they de-prioritize you and you get throttled if the network needs you throttled.
I agree with it completely, so long as they tell everyone exactly where the line is
At least with Roger and Fido pre-paid, which I both sold, they don't check a credit card. They only need a Canadian address and that was only used for account verification if you called in. Many times I had foreign customers just pull a random address out of the phone book. Payment was taken through our store credit card machine. You might have a problem buying refills over the phone, but buying top-ups from a kiosk or store is not a problem at all.
It's a bit cheaper to go with a monthly plan, but that needs valid Canadian ID
We have a law like that in Canada, only it has a provision that if you have a legal reason to create or use those tools you are fine.
So it must be proven that the tools are being created or used for criminal purposes in order to be prosecuted.
What drives me nuts is the over use of Foo and Bar as labels in programming examples. I completely failed my first course on C++ in college because the instructor would use nothing but Foo and Bar and derivatives for everything in his examples. I would get so lost because everything would look exactly the same and I would confuse foofoobar for foobarfoo (Made much worse when I would drift with my ADHD and come back and try to figure out what he did during the 2 minutes I wasn't paying attention).
Luckily now that I'm back in school 10 years later, my programming instructor has stressed that whatever you label you label it for what it does or what it will store, no matter how small or simple the program is going to be. Much easier to follow along now.
I'm primarily a pedestrian, so I've had time to test out the walk button. Most of the time, the walk button only makes the walk sign change, otherwise it just says at the stop hand icon.
The times it does change things is usually near parks or by little used streets where if it was disconnected you'd be waiting a very long time.
Not in the case of Mr. Simmons. He's got his hands in every pocket of every person attached to his music. He hates piracy and filesharing, not so much because it hurts his bottom line, but that he doesn't have control over it and can manipulate it to better his image and make more money.
Hmm, none of those options had free calls to Canada and the USA...
Seems Google would still be cheaper
I believe the point here is that software designers should assume that in terms of security their users are complete idiots and WILL install and setup the program in an unsecure manner unless they are specifically beat over the head with the notion that what they are doing is BAD!
Obviously you don't have children yourself. As a parent, one of my worst fears is: "that could happen to my child."
So you're childless when you get the job, then a bit down the road you have one and then it starts hitting you. Or the nature of the job changes and you're now exposed to something that you weren't before (A site being used to evade child porn investigations would absolutly qualify if it wasn't when you started)
Sometimes you don't know what you're going to be exposed to until you already are, you think you can handle anything until you don't. It's why people say, "you wish you could unsee something".
Or you think you're cool with it, but then it comes back a a horrifying flash at random moments or in a dream, the mind is weird that way.
If it's bad enough and fast enough, they call it Post Traumatic Stress.
Very true. As a CSR your treated like shit by the customer because of restrictive policies that keep you from doing a good job and your treated like shit by the management because you are so easily replaced they don't have to care.
My usual line when it comes to Phone reps is that 20% will be fired within 3 months because they just got the job for the 6 weeks or so of paid training (I knew someone who decided to quit by just putting his headset on the table and reading a book, still in the phone queue, lasted a month before they found out his calls were just dead air) 70% are doing their jobs just to the letter and don't give a shit about you or the job their doing and 10% actually care and try to do what's best for you. That 10% usually quit after 6 months to a year from stress and disillusionment.
I work for Fido Wireless now. Our website actually gives you the steps and walks your through them for a complaint escalation all the way up to the ombudsman. I can, without fear of reprecusions advise customers exactly how to get what they need. I also don't work the phones anymore.
I prefer this model of billing. A set clear limit is better for the company as they can have more accurate costs for bandwidth usage and for the consumer they know exactly what they're getting and can deal with situations where they need more then they have.
I work for Rogers and Fido dealership here in Canada and I can say that the vast majority of smartphone users rarely go over 1gb and most even stay within 500mb (I've been shown the internal numbers). Hell I have a dealer line with 5gb and I find it rare for me to break 2gb without tethering.
It's not the limits I have a problem with, it's the pricing. I'm sure the cost for O2's data plans are WAY higher than they need to be.
Welcom to the world of ADHD.
We either see it all, or only see the one, and most often we have no control over which.
Sounds so very similar to ADHD. Only those of us with ADHD aren't just distracted by gadgets, we're potentially distracted by everything. Hell I get distracted by the array of spices in my cupboard (when I'm supposed to be preparing dinner, to the frustration of my wife)
I find that I'm buying mre DVDs butusually it's the DVDs that are in the bin that are between $5-12, they're old but they're good. It would be the same for cds but I find I don't really even download anymore. I have a nice collection of music I like and haven't found anything that's come out in the last few years that really interests me beyond the occational listen on the radio.
It will work, but the music industry as a whole just needs to step up the quality of music being made.
Nothing too suprising in the article. Mark Zuckerberg just came off as a guy who would screw over his own grandmother if it got him ahead. From what I've read those are qualities needed in the boardrooms of america. To have any kind of scruples at that level requires some serious business talent, if anything just to keep you from being screwed over by all the other asses.
Facebook has time and time again shown that it will push all boundries it can to gain users and gain assets from those users. Mr. Zuckerberg was just too young when founding facebook to realize that he needed to be a bit more subtle when talking to others as it could come back to bit him on the ass.
Yes,
It takes all of 2 minutes to create a gmail account and tht account can forward all of your emails to whatever email account you normally use.
Much like the clothes you wear to an interview and the layout of your resume you can choose how you want your email address to look.
And heck to be honest an easy to remember phone # will stand out just the little bit more than a tough one.
it's human nature
Yes and only in a perfect vacuum with the effects of gravity.
Wow this could not have been a simpler hack.
A blob of epoxy on the sdcard would have prevented it, or perhaps a more complex reconfiguring then editing ONE LINE in a file. Furthermore why the hell does the cellular connection have full internet access. I mean it should be locked down to only what B&N want you to access on AT&T's side.
An unless the Terms and conditions of service state anything about accessing parts of the internet that B&N don't approve, these guys aren't breaking any laws.
That also depends on the call centre
I worked tech support for Apple, I was front line on the phone, I did that for 2 years.
There was no real advancment for a technical person. The reason? Outsourcing. I worked, not for Apple, but for Minacs Inc. Mincas is not a computer company, they are a call centre company. So the promotion line was up to team leader and manager positions, which are just classic non-tech manager jobs: employee evaluations, quota targets, avg phone times, etc... Anyone with a degree in anything technical or scientific would be going in the wrong direction there. You could maybe get a job with the IT dept, if they were ever hireing and then you'd have to get them to hire someone off the call floor.
since we weren't Apple, we didn't have every dept. Tier 2 was in California, in fact we only had front line agents, so the only place I could got was to a management position that was usually filled with people who spent more of their day manipulating the call tracking system to make them look better on paper than the people who actually did their jobs well. Yeah the people who just hang up on you are the ones who are put in charge.
The jobs are good money for when you need it. But it can be hard to get out of it when it can take months to find a job in your actual field and sometimes a promotion at a particular company isn't actually beneficial.
It's unfortunate that you would think that taking this kind of job right out of the gate is bad. Really sometimes it's the only option. Call centres especially incoming call centres like tech support pay higher per hour than most places in the city they are located in, and anyone with higher than average computer skills can easily get a job.
For someone who just got out of school and now has a TON of bills that they need to pay and need to pay now, a tech support job can be landed quick and easily and it pays. That also makes it tough to leave when you just got mastercard to stop calling you daily. Promotion for many people is not an option as it takes a certain kind of person to get a management job at a call centre and I don't mean it as a compliment.
I've done the customer service and tech support rounds for a couple years in the call centres and it was well paid torture.
As for the resume, focus on what it was that _you_ actually did for the company and customers and try for a smaller company that might be able to see past the job title
It's not really that the Administration wanted 9/11. In fact the Administration hadn't been in power all that long when it happened.
What it seems to me is that the existing infrastructure of the US government, dealing with intelligence and foreign policy, basically let this happen. Maybe the CIA even pushed and prodded a few people to help move along the anti-US sentiment. With the Soviet Union gone, the States needed a new enemy. Terrorists are perfect, they can be anywhere and anyone. Religious fanaticism is a great reason as a good number of Americans are either God fearing themselves or understand the concept. Islam is the best choice for the religion because Islamic countries have been quite anti-US (Iran and Iraq), Islam is usually identified with a visible minority in the US (Easy for the public to picture an enemy) but anyone could be a Muslim so you still have that anyone, anywhere aspect.
I think the US wanted to be attacked, they just didn't expect it to be so big.
As for WTC-7. All the photos I've seen do make it look like a somewhat controlled demolition. I don't think the fire could have done things quite like that. The small CIA office that was in there probably had some info and operations that were more sensitive than they are willing to admit, and they blew the building to avoid the possibility of it getting out.
I do believe that the US Government did have something to do with Al Queda and the like becoming the big enemy in the American eyes, I just don't believe they directly involved with 9/11. I just can't see that kind of complex conspiracy holding up.
For those of us just north of the border, the price difference is much more noticeable. For the exact same product there's at least a minimum of a 30% difference, more often it's more. It's especially apparent recently when the US dollar dropped and the exchange wasn't as much.
When the USD tanked all the economic experts up her said the same thing about pricing. It's not that rest of the world is willing to pay more, it's that Americans aren't willing to pay more. European companies charge more in their own countries than in the states simply because the US market won't tolerate a higher price. I mean the US economy is quickly going in the toilet, yet the only major price hikes have been in oil.
Powerful and annoying market.
I live in Canada and know the pain of throttled traffic. However I do agree that bandwidth is not free and the we can't continue to have unlimited. Right now my ISP has a cap of 200GB for 29.95. I find that reasonable. If I use too much bandwidth, I pay for it, but anyone using the internet reasonably is fine and will be fine for the next few years at least anyway.
I don't mind having to pay extra if I use an unreasonable amount of the network, but my definition of reasonable and most ISPs seem to differ