In the US a lot of people never get any of the readily-available and inexpensive job skill certifications that would instantly turn them into professionals because they simply believe they are not capable of it when in fact they are totally capable.
I understand that you probably are a programmer and you probably live in a happy, insular world where all you have to do is push some buttons on a keyboard a few times a week and and maybe get out of bed before 1PM once a month to wander into the office and roll your eyes at your manager for being a square, and out pops a paycheck for $200,000/year, so let me explain to you how overtime works.
People who work on salary don't get overtime. They get paid a specific amount per year no matter how much work they do. And the company you work for won't tell you that you have to stay in the office working on that project until 3AM, sleep under your desk for 2 hours, then get back to work but they will heavily imply that if you don't, there are plenty of people desperate to have your job, and if you don't work until you're incapacitated and your life is a blur of being judged by your work output, they might find that the metrics they create that are slanted specifically so they can't be met need to be called in.
Example: If you work as an escalation engineer in a call center, every customer you close a ticket with gets a survey to fill out when you are done working with them. Often as an escalation engineer it's your job to tell the customer they can't have what they want, so the negative outcome that is outside your control comes from you. The questions on the survey are phrased so that the customer is asked to judge their experience with the company rather than your work. However, you are evaluated based on the customer's response. Of course the customer is going to mark every answer on the survey 0 out of 10. You had to tell them they couldn't have the thing they wanted, and if they can't have the thing, that's a bad experience for them. They wouldn't have been escalated to you if they were happy with their experience with the company. These surveys are then saved so that when there's not enough escalation volume to justify continuing to pay you, you can easily be dismissed and the company has a valid claim against you.
Or all of a sudden you'll be called in to train someone to do a job strikingly similar to yours and oh by the way, now that you've finished training them, you've become redundant.
I am certain that none of those people fired were the managers who established the unrealistic quotas and instructed their staff to create the phoney accounts.
Hiring managers is expensive. Hiring tellers is as easy as calling up Express Personnel and ordering another six-pack of desperate unemployed middle class peons.
The US military complex still views cybersecurity jobs as do-nothing cushy paper pusher jobs for retired brass who know too much to be fired for incompetence and have to continue drawing a paycheck so they don't talk too much.
A large part of Apple's customer demographic doesn't talk to people who own other devices because those other devices belong to poor people. To them Android users are poor people.
The reason Apple's not bringing iMessage to Android is that the other portion of Apple's user demographic would then have no reason to own an iPhone and they'd lose a third of their sales.
I don't know why no one has suggested yet that this is obviously the FBI trying another route to get Apple to create a backdoor into iOS for them by playing the emotion card.
It used to be anyone could go to the Al Jazeera English website and watch a live stream.
Then they tried to sell out to the cable companies in the US (and failed, obviously), placing IP blocks on their video stream for anyone browsing to their site from an IP address inside the US.
I hope they'll go back to streaming in the US so I can punish them for their dissent by blocking their ads and watching their stream in my browser.
Forcing upgrade to Windows 10 is preparation for micropayments.
Microsoft's next step after they get everyone onto Windows 10 is to start charging a little it for everything.
Want to use a third party browser? $5.
Want to save files that are open? 10 cents per file.
Want to change your theme color? 99 cents.
Want Windows updates? Those will be $2 each, and if you don't install them your operating system will cease to function.
Pretty soon after that Microsoft will start force installing updates and debiting your bank account without permission, and you'll allow it because Microsoft spends more on lawyers in a year than your government spends on health care.
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In the US a lot of people never get any of the readily-available and inexpensive job skill certifications that would instantly turn them into professionals because they simply believe they are not capable of it when in fact they are totally capable.
The pejorative for anyone who is brown and lives in the desert is "sand niggers."
This is purely for the sake of answering your question.
I understand that you probably are a programmer and you probably live in a happy, insular world where all you have to do is push some buttons on a keyboard a few times a week and and maybe get out of bed before 1PM once a month to wander into the office and roll your eyes at your manager for being a square, and out pops a paycheck for $200,000/year, so let me explain to you how overtime works.
People who work on salary don't get overtime. They get paid a specific amount per year no matter how much work they do. And the company you work for won't tell you that you have to stay in the office working on that project until 3AM, sleep under your desk for 2 hours, then get back to work but they will heavily imply that if you don't, there are plenty of people desperate to have your job, and if you don't work until you're incapacitated and your life is a blur of being judged by your work output, they might find that the metrics they create that are slanted specifically so they can't be met need to be called in.
Example: If you work as an escalation engineer in a call center, every customer you close a ticket with gets a survey to fill out when you are done working with them. Often as an escalation engineer it's your job to tell the customer they can't have what they want, so the negative outcome that is outside your control comes from you. The questions on the survey are phrased so that the customer is asked to judge their experience with the company rather than your work. However, you are evaluated based on the customer's response. Of course the customer is going to mark every answer on the survey 0 out of 10. You had to tell them they couldn't have the thing they wanted, and if they can't have the thing, that's a bad experience for them. They wouldn't have been escalated to you if they were happy with their experience with the company. These surveys are then saved so that when there's not enough escalation volume to justify continuing to pay you, you can easily be dismissed and the company has a valid claim against you.
Or all of a sudden you'll be called in to train someone to do a job strikingly similar to yours and oh by the way, now that you've finished training them, you've become redundant.
Autism is what happens when mom says "stop that" and the kid says "no" and mom says "okay honey..."
"Stop picking your nose."
"No."
"Okay honey."
"Stop playing minecraft and go outside."
"No."
"Okay honey."
"Stop playing minecraft and go to school."
"No."
"Okay honey."
"Stop playing minecraft and get a job so I can retire."
"No."
"Okay honey."
If you can play Minecraft you can operate a cash register.
Stop pretending bad parenting is a disease.
I am certain that none of those people fired were the managers who established the unrealistic quotas and instructed their staff to create the phoney accounts.
Hiring managers is expensive. Hiring tellers is as easy as calling up Express Personnel and ordering another six-pack of desperate unemployed middle class peons.
I'm certain you are correct.
The US military complex still views cybersecurity jobs as do-nothing cushy paper pusher jobs for retired brass who know too much to be fired for incompetence and have to continue drawing a paycheck so they don't talk too much.
Police will seize the server, hack the root password and set it up as a honeypot on the VPN provider's network.
It's coming from the microwaves in the break room.
We've been over this.
This is a cute project but it still doesn't do anything.
It can't even run applications installed through its own application manager.
When I installed Firefox using the built in application manager, the OS froze, then after a reset it wouldn't boot.
Yes odd that they would specifically mention the FBI with no prompting.
Lets not mince words here.
A large part of Apple's customer demographic doesn't talk to people who own other devices because those other devices belong to poor people. To them Android users are poor people.
The reason Apple's not bringing iMessage to Android is that the other portion of Apple's user demographic would then have no reason to own an iPhone and they'd lose a third of their sales.
> and how exactly do they pay their rent or mortgage?
They're giving up their homes and packing 5 to 10 people into a 2 to 3 bedroom apartment or house.
> Demands equality in the workplace and the home
> Creates all-female ridesharing service
Now lets create an all male ridesharing service and see how that goes over.
I don't know why no one has suggested yet that this is obviously the FBI trying another route to get Apple to create a backdoor into iOS for them by playing the emotion card.
Pretty sure Geneva Convention prohibits the use of unmanned craft (which the US does use) and cluster bombs (which the US does use).
At this point pretty much all that is out the window.
Sheep should not listen to best practice advice from wolves.
As a core moderator I find this article to be shit and I am modding it down.
It used to be anyone could go to the Al Jazeera English website and watch a live stream.
Then they tried to sell out to the cable companies in the US (and failed, obviously), placing IP blocks on their video stream for anyone browsing to their site from an IP address inside the US.
I hope they'll go back to streaming in the US so I can punish them for their dissent by blocking their ads and watching their stream in my browser.
Forcing upgrade to Windows 10 is preparation for micropayments.
Microsoft's next step after they get everyone onto Windows 10 is to start charging a little it for everything.
Want to use a third party browser? $5.
Want to save files that are open? 10 cents per file.
Want to change your theme color? 99 cents.
Want Windows updates? Those will be $2 each, and if you don't install them your operating system will cease to function.
Pretty soon after that Microsoft will start force installing updates and debiting your bank account without permission, and you'll allow it because Microsoft spends more on lawyers in a year than your government spends on health care.
What are you gonna do?
Stop playing PC games?
They've done that dozens of times with Silverlight.
There's a limited set of people who have access to this database.
Lets put them all on trial.
Or you can spend a few more dollars and just buy a CPU that won't burn up and fail from overclocking.
"Long guns."
How weirdly vague.
Ah yes, they're learning from the CIA and NSA:
Tell everyone you're going to stop, but just rename the process and keep doing the same old thing.