I have found those companies. I have found several of them. Some have closed the department I was in, some the whole company, some they fired the most expensive people, some the newest people. One time it was the function and my manager even saw to it that I got more than what I was entitled to.
I was wise. I was productive, I helped people be productive. I was still let go.
Here the other side. We had difficulty finding people. We did not want people who just left school, but where a bit more mature. So we looked for older people from 55 and up. The fact that we would get extra money fro; the government in Belgium was a nice plus, but not the deciding factor.
Worst. Decision. Evar. It was almost impossible to get them to do anything they already knew. Let alone learn them anything new. Just not flexible enough and easily double the time to be somewhat productive (a year, instead of standard 6 months). And we really tried over several years. At a certain moment you just give up. They where just too expensive, even if they got the same pay as others.
The plus side? They are less sick on Monday and Friday. Less moaning about stuff. Much less drama. Yet the thing that remained was that learning new things was hard. Be it procedures or skills.
I now also see it with myself. I know that if I got fired now, getting a new job would be near to impossible. Too set in my ways, even if I WANT to be flexible and WANT to learn, it will be extremely hard if not impossible. Because I would feel as if they do not want to use my expertise.
They are putting extra stain on their knees. Should they be required to give up running for good to get that knee fixed?
Yes. That can happen. At least for a short period to get rest and perhaps even for a longer period and often running or other sports become a big no-no.
However they are talking about reducing the risk for the operation. They do not require you to be a non-smoker. They do want you to loose weight so your chances to survive are better.
The more encryption is challenged, the better it is. And with so many people involved, somebody with blabber if it has been hacked and better encryption can be found.
I think we should tell them that all Linux and other OSS software is involved. Having "free" peer review would be great.
Not in the US. When they ask me, I tell them that I am sure that they will be offering a fair salary and that the job will be sufficient different, so that comparing would be unfair to both them and myself. And if it turns out the the job is identical that moving companies would not be in either of our interests.
I know I could lie about being pregnant if they ever would ask, even if I am male and I am sure that I would be allowed to lie if I said a random number to increase my value.
Also if they call my (current or previous) company and they tell them, they would be in breach of several laws. They could ask for my pay slip, but I am pretty sure that that would be an issue for them as well.
At one job interview they asked and I just said 'Not enough, that is why I am sitting here where I would expect to get X with the experience I have and the job you offer.' Yes, I got the job.
But then talking about money is a big no anyway.
But most will ask "What do you want to earn?" and have a pretty fixed amount in their head. Other places will have a fixed amount per function and age. I have called HR departments, asked if they would be willing to pay X before wasting our time and some said yes and others no. I have companies tell me, we pay Y, are you interested.
Thanks you. I do not have modpoints, otherwise I would try to get you to +6 Insightfull.
The chain is as strong as the weakest link and not looking at the weakest link (humans) means you are not doing to right. The other thing is that security is a mindset. Too many look only at their own little world of THEIR network and THEIR website and do not look how this influences the rest.
At one point I had 17 different logins with different passwords that I needed to change monthly and 1 even weekly and 2 chip cards with a reader and a separate machine that I needed to enter a code. That was not even looking at what I had in my private life.
So I used the same password for all of them (A big nono) because I already had issues remembering what login belonged to what access. Secure according to the rules? No? If there would have been a breach, I woud be the person to blame.
So what else could I do? Using a password manager was not possible. Writing it down was not possible. Having the same password was not possible.
So to me is just looked as if they where not so much interested in having a secure systemen (I can remember a 28 digit password one, but not 8 digit passwords every month), but more interested in covering their asses and be able to blame somebody when things go wrong.
The best one I has was that I was told to memorize all the words on the printout for the SKEY. Yeah, I will take the paper with me, even if that is not allowed. But their ass was covered if anything would go wrong, because I was not following procedure.
What about an Open Source version? It is now not safe because somebody might have put some code in it and we have no way to be sure. That way you can verify if the code is infected by anybody or not.
Obviously it should not be something we should need. It should be already in the OS.
Accountability : It not only works for security, it works for many other things as well. It starts with taking a cookie for a kid and goes on to as far as you take it.
If there is no accountability, there was no wrongdoing in the first place.
Assume the Russians have access and everything is true. So what are they replacing it with? Most likely something that the NSA has access to. If they have access to it, you can bet that the Russians have as well. So you are not excluding the Russians, you are including the rest.
Because since when is the NSA actually concerned about our data, besides for when they want access to it?
How often do you go to a bank, compared to before the Internet? The last time I went I needed to go because I opened an account and it was required they knew I was alive and present in person. At another bank I do everything online.
Most of the things that might need a human interaction can be done over the phone. The people on the phone can do more people AND are cheaper, even if their wage would be the same as a person that you visit.
And many of the things that need to be done over the phone can be automated. There are now still people who do not have a PC or do not know how to use one. They are latterly dying out. From guestimated experience it is people who are born before around 1955. Yes, there are many exceptions on both sides of that date.
There are several banks in Europe that are only online. No brick and mortar. I even have an account in a different country. (No, I am not rich enough to dodge taxes).
I think I bought my PC in 2017. I have 3 4K screens and the only thing I added was a new video card. Running three video cards in 2D is all I need. The limiting factor is me, not the PC.
I get more speed by adding an adfilter than anything else.
I have moved my data to a NAS, so I have access to it and do the backup on a second NAS. Both have 2X2TB and 2X4TB HD's. That is 12TB each. Still have 5TB available. If they go down enough in price, I will just replace that with 12TB in each.
The only reason I am thinking about getting a new machine is that I have a tower and would like to go mini-ITX and I have disposable income. Technically I think I could wait another 5 years easy and perhaps more.
It is sweat that you think this was either for one party or against the other party. It isn't. It is to put some serious shit between people in the US.
The Romans already know how to do it : Divide and conquer
And they are really good at it, because you start pointing at Clinton, the others start pointing at Trump and the Russians stand on the side and laughing their asses off.
The one about that from the CC is not completely true. In the pre-swipe period it was standard that each store had a limit. If you went over that limit, you needed to call in and ask for an OK. If you didn't, the store was responsible for any loss. In those times a store would pay 5 to 7 percent of the transaction to the CC company (in Europe). There where booklets of numbers of cards that where not to be used. What we have now is that the transaction is verified directly. In the rest of the world the PIN is a standard and that means that now stores pay around 1.5% of the transaction (In Europe) for the transaction. Money is made from the credit, not the transactions
Going back to non-internet times where transactions are not verified immediately will increase the cost of it and I am not even talking about fraud or people abusing the fact that it won't check their limit. Because that cost would go on top of it and will be divided over all those that are paying.
People will buy so much that there is no way they will be ever able to pay any of it back.
So yes, these things existed before, but there was also an infrastructure behind it and that does not anymore.
My Grat Aunt said that when WWII came she did what she learned from WWI (The names where different) and get a lot of salt. Apparently that gets more expensiv, it lasts a long time, so you can still trade or sell it after a few years. It was also cheap enough to buy a large amount of it without going bankrupt.
Canned food and water are things you will need for your own survival. In WWII people where starving in the last winter, so if you would have sold canned food and next you are starving would be double bad.
I never asked how much they bought. Now she is a little bit dead and opensourced her body.
I was looking for my moon (Well, the moon from my planet) and all I saw was a moon from a place called Dirt or Earth. Looked it up and the only info I saw was "Mostly Harmless".
Ok. Here in more details if it is worse case: Everybody has access to everything. Best worst case The NSA has no access to Kaspersky, but has to the rest. The FSN has access to everything. The worst best case Nobody has access, except the FSB who have access to only Kaspersky The best case Nobody has access to anything.
Only in case 3 does it make sense not to use Kaspersky and that is the 2nd least likely. So the Russians will have access anyway. The question now is: do you give the NSA access as well or not?
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I have found those companies. I have found several of them. Some have closed the department I was in, some the whole company, some they fired the most expensive people, some the newest people. One time it was the function and my manager even saw to it that I got more than what I was entitled to.
I was wise. I was productive, I helped people be productive. I was still let go.
Here the other side. We had difficulty finding people. We did not want people who just left school, but where a bit more mature.
So we looked for older people from 55 and up. The fact that we would get extra money fro; the government in Belgium was a nice plus, but not the deciding factor.
Worst. Decision. Evar. It was almost impossible to get them to do anything they already knew. Let alone learn them anything new. Just not flexible enough and easily double the time to be somewhat productive (a year, instead of standard 6 months). And we really tried over several years. At a certain moment you just give up. They where just too expensive, even if they got the same pay as others.
The plus side? They are less sick on Monday and Friday. Less moaning about stuff. Much less drama. Yet the thing that remained was that learning new things was hard. Be it procedures or skills.
I now also see it with myself. I know that if I got fired now, getting a new job would be near to impossible. Too set in my ways, even if I WANT to be flexible and WANT to learn, it will be extremely hard if not impossible. Because I would feel as if they do not want to use my expertise.
Yes. That can happen. At least for a short period to get rest and perhaps even for a longer period and often running or other sports become a big no-no.
However they are talking about reducing the risk for the operation. They do not require you to be a non-smoker. They do want you to loose weight so your chances to survive are better.
Does a Real-doll replace sex with a real person? (Considering this is Slashdot, perhaps not the best comparison)
(On a non-related subject. Does sex with a real person actually feel like having sex with a real-doll? Asking for a friend.)
The Russian thing was just the last drip in a full bucket to make it overflow. I am sure that lobbying has a tad more influence in our life.
The more encryption is challenged, the better it is. And with so many people involved, somebody with blabber if it has been hacked and better encryption can be found.
I think we should tell them that all Linux and other OSS software is involved. Having "free" peer review would be great.
Not in the US. When they ask me, I tell them that I am sure that they will be offering a fair salary and that the job will be sufficient different, so that comparing would be unfair to both them and myself. And if it turns out the the job is identical that moving companies would not be in either of our interests.
I know I could lie about being pregnant if they ever would ask, even if I am male and I am sure that I would be allowed to lie if I said a random number to increase my value.
Also if they call my (current or previous) company and they tell them, they would be in breach of several laws. They could ask for my pay slip, but I am pretty sure that that would be an issue for them as well.
At one job interview they asked and I just said 'Not enough, that is why I am sitting here where I would expect to get X with the experience I have and the job you offer.' Yes, I got the job.
But then talking about money is a big no anyway.
But most will ask "What do you want to earn?" and have a pretty fixed amount in their head. Other places will have a fixed amount per function and age. I have called HR departments, asked if they would be willing to pay X before wasting our time and some said yes and others no. I have companies tell me, we pay Y, are you interested.
Thanks you. I do not have modpoints, otherwise I would try to get you to +6 Insightfull.
The chain is as strong as the weakest link and not looking at the weakest link (humans) means you are not doing to right.
The other thing is that security is a mindset. Too many look only at their own little world of THEIR network and THEIR website and do not look how this influences the rest.
At one point I had 17 different logins with different passwords that I needed to change monthly and 1 even weekly and 2 chip cards with a reader and a separate machine that I needed to enter a code. That was not even looking at what I had in my private life.
So I used the same password for all of them (A big nono) because I already had issues remembering what login belonged to what access. Secure according to the rules? No? If there would have been a breach, I woud be the person to blame.
So what else could I do? Using a password manager was not possible. Writing it down was not possible. Having the same password was not possible.
So to me is just looked as if they where not so much interested in having a secure systemen (I can remember a 28 digit password one, but not 8 digit passwords every month), but more interested in covering their asses and be able to blame somebody when things go wrong.
The best one I has was that I was told to memorize all the words on the printout for the SKEY. Yeah, I will take the paper with me, even if that is not allowed. But their ass was covered if anything would go wrong, because I was not following procedure.
What about an Open Source version? It is now not safe because somebody might have put some code in it and we have no way to be sure. That way you can verify if the code is infected by anybody or not.
Obviously it should not be something we should need. It should be already in the OS.
Down to 1% per tab? That would mean my machine could be running at 215%. I could put energy back in the grid by just opening more tabs. Kewl!
Accountability : It not only works for security, it works for many other things as well. It starts with taking a cookie for a kid and goes on to as far as you take it.
If there is no accountability, there was no wrongdoing in the first place.
Assume the Russians have access and everything is true. So what are they replacing it with? Most likely something that the NSA has access to. If they have access to it, you can bet that the Russians have as well. So you are not excluding the Russians, you are including the rest.
Because since when is the NSA actually concerned about our data, besides for when they want access to it?
How often do you go to a bank, compared to before the Internet? The last time I went I needed to go because I opened an account and it was required they knew I was alive and present in person. At another bank I do everything online.
Most of the things that might need a human interaction can be done over the phone. The people on the phone can do more people AND are cheaper, even if their wage would be the same as a person that you visit.
And many of the things that need to be done over the phone can be automated. There are now still people who do not have a PC or do not know how to use one. They are latterly dying out. From guestimated experience it is people who are born before around 1955. Yes, there are many exceptions on both sides of that date.
There are several banks in Europe that are only online. No brick and mortar. I even have an account in a different country. (No, I am not rich enough to dodge taxes).
Is that the same as the guy playing a guitar in the shop with the barista?
Well, the first was right, so now I am not so loud denying the second one. I mean have you SEEN hypnotoad?
You are probably holding it wrong.
I think I bought my PC in 2017. I have 3 4K screens and the only thing I added was a new video card. Running three video cards in 2D is all I need. The limiting factor is me, not the PC.
I get more speed by adding an adfilter than anything else.
I have moved my data to a NAS, so I have access to it and do the backup on a second NAS. Both have 2X2TB and 2X4TB HD's. That is 12TB each. Still have 5TB available. If they go down enough in price, I will just replace that with 12TB in each.
The only reason I am thinking about getting a new machine is that I have a tower and would like to go mini-ITX and I have disposable income. Technically I think I could wait another 5 years easy and perhaps more.
Technically there is no reason now.
Didn't the IRS just signed a deal with them to do peoples data verification?
Medical research cause cancer in mice.
That is what you get with first past the post. They just provided the last drop to overflow the bucket.
It is sweat that you think this was either for one party or against the other party. It isn't. It is to put some serious shit between people in the US.
The Romans already know how to do it : Divide and conquer
And they are really good at it, because you start pointing at Clinton, the others start pointing at Trump and the Russians stand on the side and laughing their asses off.
The one about that from the CC is not completely true. In the pre-swipe period it was standard that each store had a limit. If you went over that limit, you needed to call in and ask for an OK. If you didn't, the store was responsible for any loss.
In those times a store would pay 5 to 7 percent of the transaction to the CC company (in Europe).
There where booklets of numbers of cards that where not to be used.
What we have now is that the transaction is verified directly. In the rest of the world the PIN is a standard and that means that now stores pay around 1.5% of the transaction (In Europe) for the transaction. Money is made from the credit, not the transactions
Going back to non-internet times where transactions are not verified immediately will increase the cost of it and I am not even talking about fraud or people abusing the fact that it won't check their limit. Because that cost would go on top of it and will be divided over all those that are paying.
People will buy so much that there is no way they will be ever able to pay any of it back.
So yes, these things existed before, but there was also an infrastructure behind it and that does not anymore.
My Grat Aunt said that when WWII came she did what she learned from WWI (The names where different) and get a lot of salt. Apparently that gets more expensiv, it lasts a long time, so you can still trade or sell it after a few years.
It was also cheap enough to buy a large amount of it without going bankrupt.
Canned food and water are things you will need for your own survival. In WWII people where starving in the last winter, so if you would have sold canned food and next you are starving would be double bad.
I never asked how much they bought. Now she is a little bit dead and opensourced her body.
I was looking for my moon (Well, the moon from my planet) and all I saw was a moon from a place called Dirt or Earth. Looked it up and the only info I saw was "Mostly Harmless".
Ok. Here in more details if it is worse case:
Everybody has access to everything.
Best worst case
The NSA has no access to Kaspersky, but has to the rest.
The FSN has access to everything.
The worst best case
Nobody has access, except the FSB who have access to only Kaspersky
The best case
Nobody has access to anything.
Only in case 3 does it make sense not to use Kaspersky and that is the 2nd least likely. So the Russians will have access anyway. The question now is: do you give the NSA access as well or not?