That is nice and all, but then they can't get health insurance. Right? And if you want both, you can't have a wealthy population. Or there can't be any prosperous industry.
And even if everybody could code, some will be better at it and that will be the coders. Just like some will be better at making bread and yet others better at banking, being a manager or being a nurse.
Just like now.
Everybody can run (using the generalisation of everybody) That does not mean everybody is joining the Olympic Team of their country.
USofA is a thoughplace to work. Where I live, a compaby can not fine their workers. They can fire them, but not fine them.
They can reprimand them, but that is different.
If tghe company wants you to feel the consequences, they can do several things. 1) Not give you a bonus 2) Never ever give you a promotion again 3) Never give you a raise 4) Go to court
But they need to watch out for 2 and 3 that it isn't harrasment, because that could mean that the person takes them to court.
They could say that if the government did something wrong, the resposible people would be hanged in public by default without a trial, but that means nothing.
If your kid steals a cookie and all you do is say he should not do it, the kid will steal more cookies. This is not because the kid is bad, this is because the parent does nothing.
And then people say "but the constitution says..." So? It might be nice as a starting point for a discussion, but in reality it means nothing.
More like starting the fire, but I'll go with it: OK, however a strain that will see to it that nobody can get cancer would be a great idea. Right?
So where do we draw the line? Will a fetus that aborts it self if it would not be able to live a good thing or a bad thing? What are the long term consquences if we won't have a cold anymore? What if the long term is bad and the short term is good? What if it is the otherway around?
Case 4: My office is 25KM away from my home. The company pays the trip from and to work when I go by public transport or gives me 50% of travelmoney if I use my own car. If I live 100m away; they give me a bike.
This is not something random. This is very common in Belgium . This is how it works where I work and has been in several companies I worked for in the last 20 years, or so.
I could see that being the case in Germany as well..
With the many banks that are located there to keep it save from the Belgian law, you can bet that they are watched. Perhaps closer than everybody else.
I believe that you are safest in the countries that are most open about their spying. e.g. China or North-Korea. Taking the uncertainty away makes it safer for you as you won't share anything you don't want them to know.
Most places I worked for and that had these types of workers had this in some form already in place.
I wonder how this will affect the occasional travaler. e.g. the person who works in one office, but needs to go to a meeting at another office for a day. To me it was always a bit giving and taking. I do a longer day that day and they won't moan when the next Friday I leave a bit earlier.
OTOH if they don't want to do that, I can become very precise with counting my hours and minutes as well.
You are not the person at risk. The person at risk is your spouse or your kid or your cow orker or you grandma.
The weakest link is what is important. And still most IT departments still do is cover their asses by demanding to change your password every 36 minutes, not write it down and different have 5 different ones just to log in.
They know nobody will be able to follow it, but they can say "He did not follow security procedures. Fire him, not me."
Security is a social problem, yet they still want a technical solution. It is a social problem, because people forget things. People want to have it easy. People do not understand the risks....
And as long as you do not take that into account, it won't work and saying 'I have a good system for ME' does not solve anything.
Indeed, it does mean that. There are many situations where people are "contractors" while in reality they are employees.
Even many IT contractors and/or consultants are really employees. The majority will not complain due to the fact that they earn more than enough as compensation. However when they get terminated with a dispute and the consultant goes to trial, often they are in their right.
However this often is not worth the risk, unless you tend not to work anymore.
I see this happen most often with people working several years for the same company in the same job. Obviously YMMV. I live in Europe Belgium and if you take legal advice from a website, you should be found guilty and pay for it, regardless if you are right or wrong.
If one person does it? No, if all of your employers do it and didn't do it before they worked for you, there should AT LEAST be a big worry. Perhaps you don't let them shit at work and you give them baked beansas part of their contract to eat and you do not pay them enough to pay so they are unable to clean their house.
So yes, you should compensate people enough to be able to clean their house. That way, when the toilet breaks, they don't need to crap in the back yard.
I always assume that locks on luggage were to prevent accidental opening of said luggage. Never to keep anybody out, be it thieves or anybody else. Those mini-locks are shit and you can also steal the whole bag. It even has a handle to carry it as if it was made for that purpose.
So what I do is use zip ties. Anybody on this site will have plenty of them (or hand in you know what card). That way the luggage can not be opened by accident and I will know if somebody was in my bags. Not that I will do anything with that info, but still.
Compromomized in what way? When I see hpw other solutions are compromized, I don't think that The Cloud is the problem.
The problem is that data, by its very nature, is unsafe.Data is intended to be shared, so it is unsafe.
Combine that with the fact that the majority of people is not safety minded and you have compromized systems.
All you can do is try to stop them as long as possible or make what they steal not worth their wile.
This would mean thinking if having all that data is more important than the risk it poses. As the risk is not by the people maintaining the data, the answer is a big YES.
So first let ccompanies take reposability when things go wrong. I I mean hefty fines if data is stolen if the data they maintained was not essential for their operations.
This means e.g. credit card numbers; solcial security numbers and what not. And I mean essential, not "easier".
As that will never happen in my lifetime, data will be compromized, regardless if it is in The Cloud or on my moms USB drive.
Splitting lanes? What is that? Is that driving in between cars when there is a traffic jam? If so, it is legal where I live and most people will make a way for them (and they nicely thank you with a hand or foot gesture.)
What about the idiots on bikes that endager pedestrians? I see it all the time where I live. They see no need to stop before red lights or pedestrian crossings or crossings in general.
What theysometi,es do not expect is that I WON'T step aside when they come towards me and I have right of way as a pedestrian. And then sudenly they sart yelling at me?
I am crossing the road. The pedestrian light is green. I will step in front of you just enough so you hit me with your steeringwheel which causes the wheel to turn drastically in a 90 degrees position. That will cause an abrupt stop for that vehicle.
I also will step in front of them if I am in a pedestrian zone and they come towards me. Either from the front or from the back, so thye have to stop.
I hate them with a passion. That said, if they abide all the rules, I have no issue with them whatsoever. If everybody followed the traffic rules, there would be almost no issue anyway.
What they also MUST do is respect the rules.Traffic lights? What are those? Crossings? The pedestrians will get out of the way.
Yes, 99.99 out of 100 there is not an issue. It is the 0.01 that kills you or you hit some pedestrian.
As a driver in a car, I will do what I can to avoid hitting you based on what I expect to be happening. I expect you to be on place X in amount Y of time and I will tryt not to be there.
If you start changing those predictions by skipping trough red lights, my judgement of where you will be will be wrong and I hit you or somebody else trying to avoid hitting you.
And if you don't want to play by the rules don't be upset if the next wheels you ride have a chair attached to them.
If it was not intentional, the issue is even bigger. How do we know that they not put in security leaks with an update? Because if they did not know that this behaviour would happen, it means that they have no idea what they are actually doing.
Or for slightly less per month based on average monthly usage, you could buy, insure and fuel an I3 and when you got tired of it, you could sell it and get some money back.
Depends on Usage. I do car sharing and as always YMMV (pun intended) I had a New Beetle that I bought 12 years ago. I cat 1.000EUR for it from the original price of 17.000. So that is say 750EUR per year devaluation. My insurance was around 900EUR per year, parking was 50 and maintanance was 300 or so a year on avreage. That is 2.000EUR per year.
I now do car sharing. I get my public transport for free (company pays. Not uncommon in Belgium) and I use the car only to do shopping once a week. My bills are between 30 and 50EUR per month. So that would (looking at the top) 600EUR per year. And that includes fuel.
So I gain 1200EUR per year easy AND I have the car that I want.
This is not intended for all time use. This is intended for the occasional user. The website where I work with is www.cambio.be and they have cars in Belgium, some German cities and Ireland. They say that it becomes interesting if you drive less than (I think) 15.000KM.
This is intended for those that do not drive a lot, so no home-work traffic. No holidays (I would then rent a car as I already did before). Short trips and occosial usage.Many will use it as a second car.
As I said, I only use it for shopping. I was before paying for a car (in insurance) for a car that was standing in front of my house.
Do the calculations and you will see if it is interesting for you or not. Look in your area if there are options like www.cambio.be and you light be amazed how many there are. I know I was. (advertising it, because more users will give me more options)
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That is nice and all, but then they can't get health insurance. Right? And if you want both, you can't have a wealthy population. Or there can't be any prosperous industry.
Right?
And even if everybody could code, some will be better at it and that will be the coders. Just like some will be better at making bread and yet others better at banking, being a manager or being a nurse.
Just like now.
Everybody can run (using the generalisation of everybody) That does not mean everybody is joining the Olympic Team of their country.
USofA is a thoughplace to work. Where I live, a compaby can not fine their workers. They can fire them, but not fine them.
They can reprimand them, but that is different.
If tghe company wants you to feel the consequences, they can do several things.
1) Not give you a bonus
2) Never ever give you a promotion again
3) Never give you a raise
4) Go to court
But they need to watch out for 2 and 3 that it isn't harrasment, because that could mean that the person takes them to court.
But the company can not fine you.
They could say that if the government did something wrong, the resposible people would be hanged in public by default without a trial, but that means nothing.
If your kid steals a cookie and all you do is say he should not do it, the kid will steal more cookies. This is not because the kid is bad, this is because the parent does nothing.
And then people say "but the constitution says ..." So? It might be nice as a starting point for a discussion, but in reality it means nothing.
The first person at each machine at the next election will take some time, because he will be asked to update to Windows 10 first.
Why Do Kids Love the Taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?
More like starting the fire, but I'll go with it:
OK, however a strain that will see to it that nobody can get cancer would be a great idea. Right?
So where do we draw the line? Will a fetus that aborts it self if it would not be able to live a good thing or a bad thing? What are the long term consquences if we won't have a cold anymore? What if the long term is bad and the short term is good? What if it is the otherway around?
Case 4: My office is 25KM away from my home. The company pays the trip from and to work when I go by public transport or gives me 50% of travelmoney if I use my own car.
If I live 100m away; they give me a bike.
This is not something random. This is very common in Belgium . This is how it works where I work and has been in several companies I worked for in the last 20 years, or so.
I could see that being the case in Germany as well..
With the many banks that are located there to keep it save from the Belgian law, you can bet that they are watched. Perhaps closer than everybody else.
I believe that you are safest in the countries that are most open about their spying. e.g. China or North-Korea. Taking the uncertainty away makes it safer for you as you won't share anything you don't want them to know.
Most places I worked for and that had these types of workers had this in some form already in place.
I wonder how this will affect the occasional travaler. e.g. the person who works in one office, but needs to go to a meeting at another office for a day. To me it was always a bit giving and taking. I do a longer day that day and they won't moan when the next Friday I leave a bit earlier.
OTOH if they don't want to do that, I can become very precise with counting my hours and minutes as well.
You are not the person at risk. The person at risk is your spouse or your kid or your cow orker or you grandma.
The weakest link is what is important. And still most IT departments still do is cover their asses by demanding to change your password every 36 minutes, not write it down and different have 5 different ones just to log in.
They know nobody will be able to follow it, but they can say "He did not follow security procedures. Fire him, not me."
Security is a social problem, yet they still want a technical solution. It is a social problem, because people forget things. People want to have it easy. People do not understand the risks. ...
And as long as you do not take that into account, it won't work and saying 'I have a good system for ME' does not solve anything.
So, like, everywhere as they seem to be having legal issues everywhere.
If Uber doen't want then to be taxis, they need to stop treating them like taxis. I thing we see a pattern here.
Sounds like Tumblr entities who identify themselves as mayonnaise and not male or female.
OTOH a rose by any other name ...
Indeed, it does mean that. There are many situations where people are "contractors" while in reality they are employees.
Even many IT contractors and/or consultants are really employees. The majority will not complain due to the fact that they earn more than enough as compensation. However when they get terminated with a dispute and the consultant goes to trial, often they are in their right.
However this often is not worth the risk, unless you tend not to work anymore.
I see this happen most often with people working several years for the same company in the same job. Obviously YMMV. I live in Europe Belgium and if you take legal advice from a website, you should be found guilty and pay for it, regardless if you are right or wrong.
Why not? Because they will be punished. Oh, wait. They won't. Fined? Nope. Loosing more customers than they gain? Nope.
In fact what would be the reason from their point of view for NOT doing it compared to doing it. They gain more by doing it and so they do it. Simple.
If one person does it? No, if all of your employers do it and didn't do it before they worked for you, there should AT LEAST be a big worry. Perhaps you don't let them shit at work and you give them baked beansas part of their contract to eat and you do not pay them enough to pay so they are unable to clean their house.
So yes, you should compensate people enough to be able to clean their house. That way, when the toilet breaks, they don't need to crap in the back yard.
They should start selling beer in the US to 16 year olds and say "We are a Belgian company, so we abide to the Belgian laws, now fuck off."
They should start doing that in dry counties.
I always assume that locks on luggage were to prevent accidental opening of said luggage. Never to keep anybody out, be it thieves or anybody else. Those mini-locks are shit and you can also steal the whole bag. It even has a handle to carry it as if it was made for that purpose.
So what I do is use zip ties. Anybody on this site will have plenty of them (or hand in you know what card). That way the luggage can not be opened by accident and I will know if somebody was in my bags. Not that I will do anything with that info, but still.
Compromomized in what way? When I see hpw other solutions are compromized, I don't think that The Cloud is the problem.
The problem is that data, by its very nature, is unsafe.Data is intended to be shared, so it is unsafe.
Combine that with the fact that the majority of people is not safety minded and you have compromized systems.
All you can do is try to stop them as long as possible or make what they steal not worth their wile.
This would mean thinking if having all that data is more important than the risk it poses. As the risk is not by the people maintaining the data, the answer is a big YES.
So first let ccompanies take reposability when things go wrong. I I mean hefty fines if data is stolen if the data they maintained was not essential for their operations.
This means e.g. credit card numbers; solcial security numbers and what not. And I mean essential, not "easier".
As that will never happen in my lifetime, data will be compromized, regardless if it is in The Cloud or on my moms USB drive.
Splitting lanes? What is that? Is that driving in between cars when there is a traffic jam? If so, it is legal where I live and most people will make a way for them (and they nicely thank you with a hand or foot gesture.)
What about the idiots on bikes that endager pedestrians? I see it all the time where I live. They see no need to stop before red lights or pedestrian crossings or crossings in general.
What theysometi,es do not expect is that I WON'T step aside when they come towards me and I have right of way as a pedestrian. And then sudenly they sart yelling at me?
I am crossing the road. The pedestrian light is green. I will step in front of you just enough so you hit me with your steeringwheel which causes the wheel to turn drastically in a 90 degrees position. That will cause an abrupt stop for that vehicle.
I also will step in front of them if I am in a pedestrian zone and they come towards me. Either from the front or from the back, so thye have to stop.
I hate them with a passion. That said, if they abide all the rules, I have no issue with them whatsoever. If everybody followed the traffic rules, there would be almost no issue anyway.
What they also MUST do is respect the rules.Traffic lights? What are those? Crossings? The pedestrians will get out of the way.
Yes, 99.99 out of 100 there is not an issue. It is the 0.01 that kills you or you hit some pedestrian.
As a driver in a car, I will do what I can to avoid hitting you based on what I expect to be happening. I expect you to be on place X in amount Y of time and I will tryt not to be there.
If you start changing those predictions by skipping trough red lights, my judgement of where you will be will be wrong and I hit you or somebody else trying to avoid hitting you.
And if you don't want to play by the rules don't be upset if the next wheels you ride have a chair attached to them.
If it was not intentional, the issue is even bigger. How do we know that they not put in security leaks with an update? Because if they did not know that this behaviour would happen, it means that they have no idea what they are actually doing.
He made money from it and that is ok, because he only got 24 months probation.
Others, who notr do it for profit, get much more.
Depends on Usage. I do car sharing and as always YMMV (pun intended)
I had a New Beetle that I bought 12 years ago. I cat 1.000EUR for it from the original price of 17.000. So that is say 750EUR per year devaluation.
My insurance was around 900EUR per year, parking was 50 and maintanance was 300 or so a year on avreage. That is 2.000EUR per year.
I now do car sharing. I get my public transport for free (company pays. Not uncommon in Belgium) and I use the car only to do shopping once a week. My bills are between 30 and 50EUR per month. So that would (looking at the top) 600EUR per year. And that includes fuel.
So I gain 1200EUR per year easy AND I have the car that I want.
This is not intended for all time use. This is intended for the occasional user. The website where I work with is www.cambio.be and they have cars in Belgium, some German cities and Ireland. They say that it becomes interesting if you drive less than (I think) 15.000KM.
This is intended for those that do not drive a lot, so no home-work traffic. No holidays (I would then rent a car as I already did before). Short trips and occosial usage.Many will use it as a second car.
As I said, I only use it for shopping. I was before paying for a car (in insurance) for a car that was standing in front of my house.
Do the calculations and you will see if it is interesting for you or not. Look in your area if there are options like www.cambio.be and you light be amazed how many there are. I know I was. (advertising it, because more users will give me more options)