It's all taxed on companies in the end. Companies will have to pay people enough so they are able to pay taxes. So just cut out the people who pay taxes and just let companies pay them. They already have the accountants and structure and knowledge to do so. There is clear traces of incoming and outgoing.
And there are much less companies then there are people, so easier to follow up on.
If people do not need to pay taxes, they will be able to work for less and that means lower prices as well as companies being able to have more of them, so lower unemloyment. All would also be equal to the law.
Obviously, as you can work people to death and don't have to give them days off and when they are free, you can still ask them to come in. Just got a kid? I do not care, work and leave the kid to die or don't work and it starves. And if you complain, you are a communist.
Most likely no international calls as that would mean he needs to pay others that do the connection. For international calls VoIP will still be much cheaper. Look around and you get unlimited callsfor free for 6 months when you pay 10USD and then you pay 1c per minute till your 10USD is gone, adding anothter 1000 minutes.
reduce the burden of some of his call center agents
Like the burden of getting up and coming to work. Because if it is succesfull, it will be used to reduce cost and that means reduce FTE count. Bit like the self checkout, self driving cars and what not. It is NOT to please people, it is to increase profit at any cost.
The general public was unable to enter the URL when Google (or Bing) became their homepage. Give people a homepage with Google and the ability to add the URL at the top and ask them to go to a website.
Ask this at people around you for whom IT stuff is just things they use to get what they want. You can even give them your tablet or PC. Many people will just fill out the address in the middle.
Many people have no idea that saying that their boss/CEO is in China can lead up to this. Because that is how social engineers form their basis. They can then say 'Hi Bratt, I am in a meeting with Mr. Ping right now and...." and as that is information that is not widely available, it sounds believable.
But then, security is a state of mind, not a protocol. That means it needs education.
Perhaps she did it a previous two time and the response was "I SEND YOU THE FUCKING EMAIL, NOW SEND ME THE FUCKING MONEY!" Yes, there are bosses like that.
So when are you moving to Europe? Unfortunately not everywhere a) is a fact, but as we do not have cubicles, there is a bit;ore social control of abusers. Mind you, people who are unwilling to work will find a way. Be it reading the paper, going to the bathroom more often, chatting with others at the water cooler, start smoking or whatever. b) We work 38 hours. That is a bit more than allowed, but extra hours are converted to 6 extra holidays and I have 35 or so per year. In the morning and in the afternoon we have a 15 minute break that is paid for. You smoke or do whatever you like. Lunch time is not paid for. The minimum is 30 minutes. We have one hour. This will depend from company to company and from department to department. In Belgium 1 hour is not an exception, in other countries they rather have 30 minutes and in some they want to have 3 hours lunchtime. c) will depend on the company and the function. If you are required to have a phone you get one from the company. There are several ways on how to handle this and these are just examples: 1) You are in a team and one person gets the 'on call' phone. You will get paid for that period and if you need to do something, you will get extra 2) You are the only person that they can call? You should be making a shitload of money that a call is not a problem. 3) The calls are so far between that you do them. e.g. I was on a holiday and my boss called and I happened to pick up the phone. It was just to know in what directory a file was. There is no need to be a dick. I also knew that because he called while he knew I was away it was pretty important. That is 1 call in 5 years.
If you work more that 5 hours extra per week, it is becoming pretty obvious they are taking advantage of you or you are unfit to do your job.
Also note that there can be huge differences between the countries. Belgian working hours are stupid strict. So strict that if you want to do changes that are requested by the people, you are often not allowed to do them.
Oh and when you come, look what you want to make netto, then recalculate that to brutto for the negotiations. Look out for bonuses as they will be taxed even higher. And join a union or not. Nobody cares. Nobody will ask. Standard is extended hospitalization insurance and meal vouchers. That is 7-8EUR per day worked you get on top of your salary. They are pretty standard and nothing special. A car will be often included in Belgium as well or 100% paid for public transport.
Downside? Much harder to buy guns and you get paid per month, not per week.
It is not that the power is given to them and then they abuse it. It is that they abuse a power and then take it (or let it be given to them).
You can not steal the cookie and then ask mom if you can have a cookie and if she says yes, it is ok. It was still stealing a cookie (But probably totally worth it, because it was a nice cookie and she was going to say yes anyway.)
It was a battle that was won. The war is still going on and the only battle in a war that is actually important is the last one. The rest is nice for the history books.
If the war would have been won, we would not have this discussion.
And the EU just said that the Irish law was not right. And don't hide behind the people who did the dirty worrk. Just because your lawer says you are not guilty does not mean you are innocent.
So apperently he hired the wrong people, because they gave him bad advice, or (more likely) they gave him good advice and he decided not to listen to the part that it might not work.
Yes, she does. The fact that she does not act upon it is het choice and now it will be too late, but at the beginning, she (or another person who made the image, but most likely herself) had the copyright. Each time you create something, you automatically get the copyright, unless you have made alternative arrangements (e.g. working at a company or under contract). If you write something or take a photo, the copyright is yours. You have the right to decide who is allowed to copy it. Even: people should ASK you if they have the right to copy it.
In most cases people on the Internet are extremely lenient about copyright. Especially on the InterWebs. And in the case of Laina, even encourage it, as it raiser their value or self esteem or whatever. That does not mean they do not have the copyright in the first place.
Unions are good to make it fair. A company against an individual is not a fair fight. Because of Unions I get a fair pay, regulated hours and paid holidays.
What I think is the case is that in the US you do not have a union as such. It is more a guild.
I live in Belgium and am a Union member. I have no idea about 95% of mu co workers if they are or are not in a union. My boss does not know, nor care if I am in a union or not. So they even have no idea WHAT union I am a member of. There are three major and several smaller unions. I can join each and every one of them. And often they do not even agree with each other and that is a GOOD thing, because now I can have a choice as to which one comes cmosest to how I think.
As I understand, you do not have that choice. You are a baker, you join the bakers, you are a screenwriter, you join the screenwriters guild.
A guild looks only after its own profession and screw the rest. A union should be looking for all members and what it does at one company will have an influence at another. The result is paid hilidays.
And how many IT directors say "We can't fix it!"? Not that many, because they all say "We have found a new way and we implement that." and all the while they forget the weakest part: humans. And no, you can't just upgrade them as if they were a machine with not enough memory. You have to work with what is give to you and make it work.
Security was; is and never will be a technical solution for just IT. From the beginning it was clear that most of it was social enginering. Security is more a mindset. As many went through IT related ways (computers), the IT departments told us over and over again that they would take care of it with more and more technical solutions.
We are all aware that technical solutions for social problems don't work. People will write down their passwords, because they have too many. People will tell them to somebody who says he is from IT. People will do things, because they are afraid their boss will yell at them if they don't. They palm people into buildings. And all because they have no idea why it is so dangerous.
People are not even interested in protecting their own identity and secrets and make themselves volnerable to attacks. If they do this to them selves, why would they not do it for the company they work for?
The reason is simple: ignorance. You need to explain that if you give one piece of the puzzle (e.g. just the first number of your CVV code) if they get the otherpieces elsewhere, they have all of the information.
So it is indeed now up to IT to realize that they have been lying and finally start to understand that security is a state of mind and not something you can deal with as if it were a bug (or a feature). NEVER solve a social problem with a technical solution.
My great aunt was 115 when she died. Lived alone till 106. Open-sourced her body to science. When she was 99, she had cancer and they had to take a breast. Doctor did not want to do it. She said: If I die on the table or in a bed is no difference to me and take the other one as well. I am not using them anymore.
My great aubnt lived to be 115 and was at one point the oldest know living person in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Many people wanted to talk about life then. She lived inb a time people in the Netherlands lived in "plaggenhutten". When people asked if she kne when the first cars came, she laughed and said she remembered when the first bikes came. Imported from the US. She lived alone till she was 106. She was always positive minded, even though almost all she knew had died. She wanted people to learn and she gave her body to science. From that came the knowledge that alzheimer is 'just' a dissease and not something everybody will get when you get old. She was the basis for other discoveries as well as a push to do research with 100+ year olds.
She wanted the knowledge that came from her body to be her gift to some students that would cut her open or look at in a bottle. She never thought it would be such a success and she would have been delighted.
She never gave the impression that her universe left town. More that she was welcoming a new universe of things to learn. With that I learned that contact and optimism are very important. She always wanted others to learn and that is why she open-sourced her body. She insisted that the knowledge should be used by all. Again: she open-sourced her body. An other thing the found : https://www.newscientist.com/a...
If you run Linux, why are you typing it in every week? Use crontab or if your PC is not on all the time, make it part of you shutdown and/or startup process. If it is a portable, let it verify if you are connected to you homework or not before it launched. A nice program tro use for incremential backups is http://savannah.nongnu.org/pro...
My backup process is 1) Incremential 2) Mount RX, backup to NAS, mount RO 3) Backup from NAS1 to NAS2. NAS2 is not directly connected to the PCs and is dedicated for backup of the backups.
Data like music and movies and pictures are always RO as soon as they are sorted. Process: 1) rip or download or copy 2) mount RW and moving of data 3) Remount RO
As much as possible is left as RO. Not so much because I am afraid of hackers, but to protect me from my own stupidity.
I have the following: 1) 1 SDD that I work on and another that is mirrored every day. If one disk fails, I have another. This is my working disk. 2) Incremential backup of data that changes often, like emails or some directories I work in. Mostly use if I delete a file by accident. Just copy it back and be done. This goes to a NAS. 3) Data that does not changes often, like movies, images and music is stored on a NAS. 4) Second NAS to backup the data of the first NAS. 5) Essential data (less than 10MB) is put on my website on a personal directory. This is data that I might need in case of the house burning down.
So when something goes wrong (unless the house burns down, but the I have other problems and my music is not one of them.) I have a way to restore it.
The most important thing however is not to backup, but the knowledge on how to restore it. You need to test that out from time to time. I have people seen who did backups to/dev/null to test it and forgot to remove that parameter.
What you can do if you REALLY need to have things off site, like photos and other things that you can't replace is just buy a dedicated HD that you put this data on and keep it in a drawer at your office. Once a month or so you take it home and add the new data. And if that disk is full, buy a new one or a bigger one. If data is really THAT important, the price of the HD is well worth it.
The only one I have is here and Imgur and that gets deleted every month or so. And when I travel, I use a separate mailbox for each trip. Easier to organize. So they could get the email usa2016@example.com, but they have that already as it was the one I used to apply for my Visa. So they can follow it, but they already know where I am going, because I had to enter that on my Visa. And that address will be deleted when I get back.
And why do they need it? NSA unable to crack https?
If your policy violated the US privacy policies as a company that is that big, you know you fucked up. Or perhaps it is just greedy politicians that want extra money to change the law.
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It's all taxed on companies in the end. Companies will have to pay people enough so they are able to pay taxes.
So just cut out the people who pay taxes and just let companies pay them. They already have the accountants and structure and knowledge to do so. There is clear traces of incoming and outgoing.
And there are much less companies then there are people, so easier to follow up on.
If people do not need to pay taxes, they will be able to work for less and that means lower prices as well as companies being able to have more of them, so lower unemloyment. All would also be equal to the law.
Obviously, as you can work people to death and don't have to give them days off and when they are free, you can still ask them to come in. Just got a kid? I do not care, work and leave the kid to die or don't work and it starves.
And if you complain, you are a communist.
Most likely no international calls as that would mean he needs to pay others that do the connection. For international calls VoIP will still be much cheaper. Look around and you get unlimited callsfor free for 6 months when you pay 10USD and then you pay 1c per minute till your 10USD is gone, adding anothter 1000 minutes.
Like the burden of getting up and coming to work. Because if it is succesfull, it will be used to reduce cost and that means reduce FTE count.
Bit like the self checkout, self driving cars and what not. It is NOT to please people, it is to increase profit at any cost.
The general public was unable to enter the URL when Google (or Bing) became their homepage. Give people a homepage with Google and the ability to add the URL at the top and ask them to go to a website.
Ask this at people around you for whom IT stuff is just things they use to get what they want. You can even give them your tablet or PC. Many people will just fill out the address in the middle.
Many people have no idea that saying that their boss/CEO is in China can lead up to this. Because that is how social engineers form their basis. ...." and as that is information that is not widely available, it sounds believable.
They can then say 'Hi Bratt, I am in a meeting with Mr. Ping right now and
But then, security is a state of mind, not a protocol. That means it needs education.
Perhaps she did it a previous two time and the response was "I SEND YOU THE FUCKING EMAIL, NOW SEND ME THE FUCKING MONEY!" Yes, there are bosses like that.
So when are you moving to Europe? ;ore social control of abusers. Mind you, people who are unwilling to work will find a way. Be it reading the paper, going to the bathroom more often, chatting with others at the water cooler, start smoking or whatever.
Unfortunately not everywhere a) is a fact, but as we do not have cubicles, there is a bit
b) We work 38 hours. That is a bit more than allowed, but extra hours are converted to 6 extra holidays and I have 35 or so per year. In the morning and in the afternoon we have a 15 minute break that is paid for. You smoke or do whatever you like. Lunch time is not paid for. The minimum is 30 minutes. We have one hour. This will depend from company to company and from department to department. In Belgium 1 hour is not an exception, in other countries they rather have 30 minutes and in some they want to have 3 hours lunchtime.
c) will depend on the company and the function. If you are required to have a phone you get one from the company. There are several ways on how to handle this and these are just examples:
1) You are in a team and one person gets the 'on call' phone. You will get paid for that period and if you need to do something, you will get extra
2) You are the only person that they can call? You should be making a shitload of money that a call is not a problem.
3) The calls are so far between that you do them. e.g. I was on a holiday and my boss called and I happened to pick up the phone. It was just to know in what directory a file was. There is no need to be a dick. I also knew that because he called while he knew I was away it was pretty important. That is 1 call in 5 years.
If you work more that 5 hours extra per week, it is becoming pretty obvious they are taking advantage of you or you are unfit to do your job.
Also note that there can be huge differences between the countries. Belgian working hours are stupid strict. So strict that if you want to do changes that are requested by the people, you are often not allowed to do them.
Oh and when you come, look what you want to make netto, then recalculate that to brutto for the negotiations. Look out for bonuses as they will be taxed even higher. And join a union or not. Nobody cares. Nobody will ask. Standard is extended hospitalization insurance and meal vouchers. That is 7-8EUR per day worked you get on top of your salary. They are pretty standard and nothing special. A car will be often included in Belgium as well or 100% paid for public transport.
Downside? Much harder to buy guns and you get paid per month, not per week.
Taxi-like? If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and quaks like a duck, it isn't duck-like. It is a fucking duck.
It is not that the power is given to them and then they abuse it. It is that they abuse a power and then take it (or let it be given to them).
You can not steal the cookie and then ask mom if you can have a cookie and if she says yes, it is ok. It was still stealing a cookie (But probably totally worth it, because it was a nice cookie and she was going to say yes anyway.)
It was a battle that was won. The war is still going on and the only battle in a war that is actually important is the last one. The rest is nice for the history books.
If the war would have been won, we would not have this discussion.
And the EU just said that the Irish law was not right. And don't hide behind the people who did the dirty worrk.
Just because your lawer says you are not guilty does not mean you are innocent.
So apperently he hired the wrong people, because they gave him bad advice, or (more likely) they gave him good advice and he decided not to listen to the part that it might not work.
Can I try it with an image of a mouse that was painted?
Yes, she does. The fact that she does not act upon it is het choice and now it will be too late, but at the beginning, she (or another person who made the image, but most likely herself) had the copyright.
Each time you create something, you automatically get the copyright, unless you have made alternative arrangements (e.g. working at a company or under contract). If you write something or take a photo, the copyright is yours. You have the right to decide who is allowed to copy it. Even: people should ASK you if they have the right to copy it.
In most cases people on the Internet are extremely lenient about copyright. Especially on the InterWebs. And in the case of Laina, even encourage it, as it raiser their value or self esteem or whatever. That does not mean they do not have the copyright in the first place.
Unions are good to make it fair. A company against an individual is not a fair fight. Because of Unions I get a fair pay, regulated hours and paid holidays.
What I think is the case is that in the US you do not have a union as such. It is more a guild.
I live in Belgium and am a Union member. I have no idea about 95% of mu co workers if they are or are not in a union. My boss does not know, nor care if I am in a union or not. So they even have no idea WHAT union I am a member of. There are three major and several smaller unions. I can join each and every one of them. And often they do not even agree with each other and that is a GOOD thing, because now I can have a choice as to which one comes cmosest to how I think.
As I understand, you do not have that choice. You are a baker, you join the bakers, you are a screenwriter, you join the screenwriters guild.
A guild looks only after its own profession and screw the rest. A union should be looking for all members and what it does at one company will have an influence at another. The result is paid hilidays.
Is it 100%? No, nothing will be.
And how many IT directors say "We can't fix it!"? Not that many, because they all say "We have found a new way and we implement that." and all the while they forget the weakest part: humans.
And no, you can't just upgrade them as if they were a machine with not enough memory. You have to work with what is give to you and make it work.
Security was; is and never will be a technical solution for just IT. From the beginning it was clear that most of it was social enginering. Security is more a mindset.
As many went through IT related ways (computers), the IT departments told us over and over again that they would take care of it with more and more technical solutions.
We are all aware that technical solutions for social problems don't work. People will write down their passwords, because they have too many. People will tell them to somebody who says he is from IT. People will do things, because they are afraid their boss will yell at them if they don't. They palm people into buildings. And all because they have no idea why it is so dangerous.
People are not even interested in protecting their own identity and secrets and make themselves volnerable to attacks. If they do this to them selves, why would they not do it for the company they work for?
The reason is simple: ignorance. You need to explain that if you give one piece of the puzzle (e.g. just the first number of your CVV code) if they get the otherpieces elsewhere, they have all of the information.
So it is indeed now up to IT to realize that they have been lying and finally start to understand that security is a state of mind and not something you can deal with as if it were a bug (or a feature). NEVER solve a social problem with a technical solution.
My great aunt was 115 when she died. Lived alone till 106. Open-sourced her body to science.
When she was 99, she had cancer and they had to take a breast. Doctor did not want to do it. She said: If I die on the table or in a bed is no difference to me and take the other one as well. I am not using them anymore.
My great aubnt lived to be 115 and was at one point the oldest know living person in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Many people wanted to talk about life then. She lived inb a time people in the Netherlands lived in "plaggenhutten". When people asked if she kne when the first cars came, she laughed and said she remembered when the first bikes came. Imported from the US.
She lived alone till she was 106. She was always positive minded, even though almost all she knew had died.
She wanted people to learn and she gave her body to science. From that came the knowledge that alzheimer is 'just' a dissease and not something everybody will get when you get old. She was the basis for other discoveries as well as a push to do research with 100+ year olds.
She wanted the knowledge that came from her body to be her gift to some students that would cut her open or look at in a bottle. She never thought it would be such a success and she would have been delighted.
She never gave the impression that her universe left town. More that she was welcoming a new universe of things to learn. With that I learned that contact and optimism are very important. She always wanted others to learn and that is why she open-sourced her body. She insisted that the knowledge should be used by all. Again: she open-sourced her body.
An other thing the found : https://www.newscientist.com/a...
If you run Linux, why are you typing it in every week? Use crontab or if your PC is not on all the time, make it part of you shutdown and/or startup process.
If it is a portable, let it verify if you are connected to you homework or not before it launched.
A nice program tro use for incremential backups is http://savannah.nongnu.org/pro...
My backup process is
1) Incremential
2) Mount RX, backup to NAS, mount RO
3) Backup from NAS1 to NAS2. NAS2 is not directly connected to the PCs and is dedicated for backup of the backups.
Data like music and movies and pictures are always RO as soon as they are sorted. Process:
1) rip or download or copy
2) mount RW and moving of data
3) Remount RO
As much as possible is left as RO. Not so much because I am afraid of hackers, but to protect me from my own stupidity.
I have the following:
1) 1 SDD that I work on and another that is mirrored every day. If one disk fails, I have another. This is my working disk.
2) Incremential backup of data that changes often, like emails or some directories I work in. Mostly use if I delete a file by accident. Just copy it back and be done. This goes to a NAS.
3) Data that does not changes often, like movies, images and music is stored on a NAS.
4) Second NAS to backup the data of the first NAS.
5) Essential data (less than 10MB) is put on my website on a personal directory. This is data that I might need in case of the house burning down.
So when something goes wrong (unless the house burns down, but the I have other problems and my music is not one of them.) I have a way to restore it.
The most important thing however is not to backup, but the knowledge on how to restore it. You need to test that out from time to time. I have people seen who did backups to /dev/null to test it and forgot to remove that parameter.
What you can do if you REALLY need to have things off site, like photos and other things that you can't replace is just buy a dedicated HD that you put this data on and keep it in a drawer at your office. Once a month or so you take it home and add the new data.
And if that disk is full, buy a new one or a bigger one. If data is really THAT important, the price of the HD is well worth it.
But again, test the restore.
The only one I have is here and Imgur and that gets deleted every month or so. And when I travel, I use a separate mailbox for each trip. Easier to organize. So they could get the email usa2016@example.com, but they have that already as it was the one I used to apply for my Visa. So they can follow it, but they already know where I am going, because I had to enter that on my Visa.
And that address will be deleted when I get back.
And why do they need it? NSA unable to crack https?
Just because nobody is surprised does not mean it is leagl. It just means the people suing had more time to prepare the lawsuit.
If your policy violated the US privacy policies as a company that is that big, you know you fucked up.
Or perhaps it is just greedy politicians that want extra money to change the law.