They can be forced, actually. The prosecution tells you that if you plead guilty you'll be given a reduced sentence, so you plead guilty regardless of whether or not you're actually guilty.
YSN that if you buy a Windows laptop you won't have to pay $400 for an entire bottom deck when one key on your keyboard fails. You just pull the keyboard out and put in a new keyboard.
That's a cool perspective but I'm an old trog (see my profile age) and I miss the era when Slashdot wasn't where you went to post when Reddit rate limited your posts.
Parents avoid difficult conversations with their kids by claiming they are doing it to protect their children.
Mental health professionals avoid having to tell parents they are terrible at parenting by diagnosing children with ADD or Aspergers or some other intangible mental health problem and sending them home with head candy drugs so they'll stop coming back.
In most civilized countries you simply received a letter at the end of the year informing you of what you owe on your taxes and you pay it online. The IRS intentionally makes filing your taxes hard and complicated so they can come to your house and take everything you own at a whim.
I don't see this as a problem because what happened with the electric car tax credit is that Big Auto went "oh you want to give tax credits, okay, we'll jack our profit margin up by exactly the amount of the tax credit and add that to the price."
This seems to imply that Firefox's developers know that their existing password storage mechanism is inadequate yet chose not to tell users until they were well into the development cycle for a replacement.
I don't give a shit I'm not signing up for their stupid pointless streaming service just to watch one show. 0% chance the show will remain exclusive forever. I can wait.
I know it's difficult to understand for a lot of Slashdot users who live in comfortable $4,000 apartments and walk 30 feet to work or don't even go into work some days because they just don't FEEL like going into work that day but... for most people, the amount they're going to get is not a NEGOTIATION. The employer has a set amount that they've decided they're going to pay you based on your experience and what they have read on your resume, and you either take it or you don't get the job. You don't get to say "well I feel like I should get paid this and this and this because I did this and that" because if you do the employer goes "oh jee what a shame, guess we'll have to hire one of these other 400 people in this massive stack of resumes who have exactly the same experience and skills as you." Most of the time they won't even follow up with you if you make a higher offer for pay, they'll just end the conversation quickly and move on to the next candidate.
It's marketed to people that Tesla's sociopathic CEO sees as "poor"; people who can *only* afford $35,000 for a car and so like other "poor people" cars it will be designed to fall apart after it goes out of warranty, trapping its buyers in the never-ending loop of transportation as a service. Because what are they gonna do, go buy a more expensive car?
You probably have a post graduate degree. You're probably rich by the common agreement about what the word rich means. You're probably being intentionally conspicuous about it because with wealth comes exclusivity and loneliness and aggressive attention seeking.
The only reason Linux is perceived as more secure than other operating systems is because most hackers don't care enough to spend time working to crack it, so there are less attempts.
It's like saying that guns are less dangerous than knives because they're not widely used in countries where they are banned.
As a guy who worked in customer service for 15 years and one who spent several years doing it at Yahoo I can tell you that those employee evaluations are nothing more than permission slips to fire employees when they are no longer needed instead of laying them off.
They are intentionally designed with metrics that are impossible to meet and the targets are open to interpenetration by managers, which creates an ever moving target that can't be hit.
It is just like in Office Space where the boss asks the waitress "what do you think of a person who just does the bare minimum."
Meeting expectations is never enough. No matter how good you are, when it comes time to reduce staff you will be eliminated and you have no recourse because the numbers they made up say you performed poorly.
But it's not just Yahoo who does this -- rather it's been the practice at every company I've ever worked at.
Slashdot Mirror
Guilty until proven wealthy.
They can be forced, actually. The prosecution tells you that if you plead guilty you'll be given a reduced sentence, so you plead guilty regardless of whether or not you're actually guilty.
YSN that if you buy a Windows laptop you won't have to pay $400 for an entire bottom deck when one key on your keyboard fails. You just pull the keyboard out and put in a new keyboard.
That's a cool perspective but I'm an old trog (see my profile age) and I miss the era when Slashdot wasn't where you went to post when Reddit rate limited your posts.
I don't understand why this is news.
Parents avoid difficult conversations with their kids by claiming they are doing it to protect their children.
Mental health professionals avoid having to tell parents they are terrible at parenting by diagnosing children with ADD or Aspergers or some other intangible mental health problem and sending them home with head candy drugs so they'll stop coming back.
In most civilized countries you simply received a letter at the end of the year informing you of what you owe on your taxes and you pay it online. The IRS intentionally makes filing your taxes hard and complicated so they can come to your house and take everything you own at a whim.
I don't see this as a problem because what happened with the electric car tax credit is that Big Auto went "oh you want to give tax credits, okay, we'll jack our profit margin up by exactly the amount of the tax credit and add that to the price."
This is my story, I submitted it to Slashdot, but it says it was submitted by someone else and has a different title than I submitted it with.
This seems to imply that Firefox's developers know that their existing password storage mechanism is inadequate yet chose not to tell users until they were well into the development cycle for a replacement.
I don't give a shit I'm not signing up for their stupid pointless streaming service just to watch one show. 0% chance the show will remain exclusive forever. I can wait.
Alright, so here's the elephant in the room. It's so they can take your laptop and make you put the password in for them.
Alphabet was created to work around anti-compete laws.
It exists for zero other reason.
"Don't be evil" ceased to be Google's slogan a long time ago.
Now it should be "be evil and make everyone feel guilty for noticing."
I know it's difficult to understand for a lot of Slashdot users who live in comfortable $4,000 apartments and walk 30 feet to work or don't even go into work some days because they just don't FEEL like going into work that day but... for most people, the amount they're going to get is not a NEGOTIATION. The employer has a set amount that they've decided they're going to pay you based on your experience and what they have read on your resume, and you either take it or you don't get the job. You don't get to say "well I feel like I should get paid this and this and this because I did this and that" because if you do the employer goes "oh jee what a shame, guess we'll have to hire one of these other 400 people in this massive stack of resumes who have exactly the same experience and skills as you." Most of the time they won't even follow up with you if you make a higher offer for pay, they'll just end the conversation quickly and move on to the next candidate.
It's marketed to people that Tesla's sociopathic CEO sees as "poor"; people who can *only* afford $35,000 for a car and so like other "poor people" cars it will be designed to fall apart after it goes out of warranty, trapping its buyers in the never-ending loop of transportation as a service. Because what are they gonna do, go buy a more expensive car?
And there's the humblebragging no one is surprised by.
You probably have a post graduate degree. You're probably rich by the common agreement about what the word rich means. You're probably being intentionally conspicuous about it because with wealth comes exclusivity and loneliness and aggressive attention seeking.
this post is an ad for a book
I had to crawl under my desk with the cob webs and the COBOL manuals to get the entire depth of that wisecrack.
You don't "open' a phone with your fingerprint.
You unlock it.
"Opening" a phone would be separating the display from the chassis, ie for maintenance.
There is no "opening" operation being performed.
Not really.
Security through obscurity is not security.
The only reason Linux is perceived as more secure than other operating systems is because most hackers don't care enough to spend time working to crack it, so there are less attempts.
It's like saying that guns are less dangerous than knives because they're not widely used in countries where they are banned.
*Math
As a guy who worked in customer service for 15 years and one who spent several years doing it at Yahoo I can tell you that those employee evaluations are nothing more than permission slips to fire employees when they are no longer needed instead of laying them off.
They are intentionally designed with metrics that are impossible to meet and the targets are open to interpenetration by managers, which creates an ever moving target that can't be hit.
It is just like in Office Space where the boss asks the waitress "what do you think of a person who just does the bare minimum."
Meeting expectations is never enough. No matter how good you are, when it comes time to reduce staff you will be eliminated and you have no recourse because the numbers they made up say you performed poorly.
But it's not just Yahoo who does this -- rather it's been the practice at every company I've ever worked at.
You need to stop using the word "open" to refer to the act of unlocking a mobile device.
You don't "open" a smartphone.
There isn't a lid that you remove to gain access to it.
You unlock it.
Ad hominem.