u know unfirable state employees who get paid significantly more than private sector equivalents, retire early and have vast pensions
Conservatives love to tout this fact, but if you actually look at the reasoning behind it, it isn't that government employees are getting paid a lot more than they used to, it's that private sector wages have been slashed mercilessly in the past 30 or so years to the point that even though government employees don't make that much more, adjusted for inflation, the ratio between private to public sector salaries has fallen significantly.
But if you have access to the internet then they still should include a link in the tweet to an official government site with more info. Plus such a link would help verify that the tweet is real.
Or when paypal decides that even though you specified you wanted to pay with your credit card, it takes it out of your bank and refuses to stop trying to take the money out of your bank DESPITE the fact that they already got the money from your credit card, even when you call customer service. Fortunately my bank was understanding and now I am boycotting paypal. They want to play games, they can do so without my money.
Except your boss doesn't want to approve any of the budget for that stuff because he would rather it go into his bonus than actually do anything useful for the company or its employees. He has to pay you no matter what, so from his end making you work 80 hours a week is cheaper than buying the infrastructure to actually only necessitate you working 40 hours a week. He then splits the resulting savings between his bonus and his boss's bonus.
I'm salaried and for the last two years I've not received a salary increase from my employer. So I decided to give myself a salary increase by working less hours. Now I'm making more per hour. I simply refuse to do charity work for the share holders. I'm feeling much better now. I can always look busy and do something else for myself.
You think the shareholders saw a dime of your charity? You were doing it for your bosses bonuses, plain and simple. The modern American executive now has the wonderful position of being able to fuck over the employees AND the shareholders to get bonuses they don't deserve. CEO salaries are rising at 2x the rate of the S&P and I don't see that trend reversing anytime soon, if anything it's just going to get worse with the CEO loving, share-holder hating Republicans at the helm.
It's so cute that this mom ACTUALLY believes her kid(s) when they say that they "stumbled upon the porn by accident".
Junior:'Honest mum, somehow my keyboard just magically typed naked sluts and somehow the mouse must have moved on it's own to click on the links. I'm innocent I tell you!'
No, it's sad that slashdot edits out almost all non-roman characters. You cannot even type cyrillic, greek, chinese etc. I guess they do this to try to keep people from spamming in different languages, but it can be annoying.
Actually the people who won the contract were L3, Northrop Grumman(though to be fair it was one of their branch companies, they don't really have a lot to do with the head office) were the ones that hired me. But L-3 was pretty slimy too, they interviewed everyone and then promised that they would find me a job then gave me absolutely nada. Oh well, I found something else and it's working out.
So I'm not supposed to trust facebook, a single corporate entity that I can sue for breach of contract if necessary, but I am supposed to trust this software to store copies of my data(even if they are encrypted) on machines all over the planet, machines who may be running Windows and get infected with a botnet that can transfer all my data to another computer for later decryption and analysis. Yeah, sign me up for that.
I hope competitors have a model that DOESNT require me to trust the security of Windows machines.
Happens in the defense industry all the time. Recruiters interview, and sometimes hire candidates under the assumption that said candidates will help them win the contract. When they don't win the contract the hiree is up the shit creek without a paddle. Hell, I wish I had known this back not too long ago, I worked for a company for a few months after moving overseas being promised a 2 year contract, the contract didn't even last one. I found another job, but fuck $1.9 mil sounds a lot better than that job was:P
I can attest to this. I am a grad student in Japan and I get flack from the immigration officers every time I come home. It's a pain in the ass explaining why I am not studying in the US and what I plan to do in my own god damned country.
That and slashdot doesn't exactly buy the book for the reviewers, they are all user generated. Which means that many of us read reviews of the book before diving in and avoid ones that have negative reputations.
The big problem with Rosetta Stone is that it doesn't really delve that deep into the language. I actually asked a Rosetta stone guy about this once, he referred me to the website which then referred me to an email address which said I should just pick up a regular textbook(the same kind of regular textbook that Rosetta Stone frequently decries), to finish learning the language. Well guess what, the 80-20 rule is a bitch and Rosetta Stone only covers the 20 part.(The 80-20 rule states that it takes you 20% of the total time to learn a language to learn the first 80% and the remaining 80% to learn the last 20). The reason Rosetta Stone can sell so much is that they rely on people being ignorant of that fact and the fact that with almost any textbook a reasonably smart learner can learn the basics of the language quickly. So it seems like Rosetta Stone is teaching you a lot, but thats just cognitive dissonance:P
Partially lost in this whole debate is the fact that there are really 2 ways of giving preferential treatment to traffic, "caching" and "throttling". Throttling is bad, but since it's really cheap to implement the execs like it. Caching on the other hand is much harder and more expensive to implement, but it ultimately ends up being a service instead of a burden to the customer. If Google wants to pay Verizon to cache the most popular 100,000 youtube videos than they should be allowed to. The people that watch said videos get better download times and google saves on bandwidth.
I would hope that such "positive" preferential treatment wouldn't be banned along with throttling, but I can certainly see an upshot, namely enforcement. How is your average customer supposed to know whether or not you are throttling or merely just caching competing content?
It isn't just catering to "noobs" that causes Windows to be insecure, it's very much the culture of Microsoft itself. Microsoft managers are still stuck in the late 90s mentality that their biggest competitor is themselves. The managers constantly try to backstab eachother and refuse to work together on almost anything, and thus security, much like every other component of the OS, is a incoherent, bloated mess. Take the firewall settings in WIndows XP for example. There are no less than 3....THREE! different places in the OS to change firewall settings, and the way they interact and overrule each other is not at all intuitive. It's not just Windows that has this problem, every single group at Microsoft seems to suffer from this. For example the simultaneous development of 3 different, incompatible, mobile device OSs, or 2 different, incompatible, DRM standards, or the fact that the Windows interface is incredibly inconsistent etc.
Windows will not get more secure until the stockholders demand a total housecleaning on Microsofts senior execs and actually replace them with people who can, oh I don't know, MANAGE! The fact that the stockholders haven't called for Ballmer's head yet is just baffling.
"If you are really afraid of terrorism, don't travel by airplane, travel by bus. You ever been to a bus station? People walking around all dirty, in rags. A terrorist goes to a bus station and sees this and thinks, 'damn, someone already did up this joint'"
No, it increases the complexity of finding AT LEAST ONE valid password on your system. As long as I can get access to an account I can cause all sorts of trouble, not the least is executing one of the myriad of privilege escalation exploits and getting root. If they are after a single password then yeah, it doesn't help. But how do they know ahead of time who has the weakest password. I guess if their real name was Stupid McPicksbadpassword.....
If you manage to end up in China when driving a station wagon full of tapes from North Carolina to DC you REALLY are doing it wrong.
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Except for the fact that OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of drugs fail, not some, not half, an overwhelming majority, fail. You also seem to think that the worst thing that will happen is that the drug will have no effect. The worst that can happen is that it can kill you faster AND make your last days as agonizing as possible. There is a reason scientists do animal tests first, it's not because they just really like killing mice.
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u know unfirable state employees who get paid significantly more than private sector equivalents, retire early and have vast pensions
Conservatives love to tout this fact, but if you actually look at the reasoning behind it, it isn't that government employees are getting paid a lot more than they used to, it's that private sector wages have been slashed mercilessly in the past 30 or so years to the point that even though government employees don't make that much more, adjusted for inflation, the ratio between private to public sector salaries has fallen significantly.
They haven't seized paypal yet? If the people running that site aren't criminals then I don't know who is.
But if you have access to the internet then they still should include a link in the tweet to an official government site with more info. Plus such a link would help verify that the tweet is real.
Or when paypal decides that even though you specified you wanted to pay with your credit card, it takes it out of your bank and refuses to stop trying to take the money out of your bank DESPITE the fact that they already got the money from your credit card, even when you call customer service. Fortunately my bank was understanding and now I am boycotting paypal. They want to play games, they can do so without my money.
Except your boss doesn't want to approve any of the budget for that stuff because he would rather it go into his bonus than actually do anything useful for the company or its employees. He has to pay you no matter what, so from his end making you work 80 hours a week is cheaper than buying the infrastructure to actually only necessitate you working 40 hours a week. He then splits the resulting savings between his bonus and his boss's bonus.
I'm salaried and for the last two years I've not received a salary increase from my employer. So I decided to give myself a salary increase by working less hours. Now I'm making more per hour. I simply refuse to do charity work for the share holders. I'm feeling much better now. I can always look busy and do something else for myself.
You think the shareholders saw a dime of your charity? You were doing it for your bosses bonuses, plain and simple. The modern American executive now has the wonderful position of being able to fuck over the employees AND the shareholders to get bonuses they don't deserve. CEO salaries are rising at 2x the rate of the S&P and I don't see that trend reversing anytime soon, if anything it's just going to get worse with the CEO loving, share-holder hating Republicans at the helm.
It's so cute that this mom ACTUALLY believes her kid(s) when they say that they "stumbled upon the porn by accident".
Junior:'Honest mum, somehow my keyboard just magically typed naked sluts and somehow the mouse must have moved on it's own to click on the links. I'm innocent I tell you!'
Typically those changes are mostly bug/security fixes. New features/APIs tend to only be released every 6 months.
because it rarely works well and is very cumbersome to do with the iPad.
No, it's sad that slashdot edits out almost all non-roman characters. You cannot even type cyrillic, greek, chinese etc. I guess they do this to try to keep people from spamming in different languages, but it can be annoying.
Actually the people who won the contract were L3, Northrop Grumman(though to be fair it was one of their branch companies, they don't really have a lot to do with the head office) were the ones that hired me. But L-3 was pretty slimy too, they interviewed everyone and then promised that they would find me a job then gave me absolutely nada. Oh well, I found something else and it's working out.
So I'm not supposed to trust facebook, a single corporate entity that I can sue for breach of contract if necessary, but I am supposed to trust this software to store copies of my data(even if they are encrypted) on machines all over the planet, machines who may be running Windows and get infected with a botnet that can transfer all my data to another computer for later decryption and analysis. Yeah, sign me up for that.
I hope competitors have a model that DOESNT require me to trust the security of Windows machines.
Happens in the defense industry all the time. Recruiters interview, and sometimes hire candidates under the assumption that said candidates will help them win the contract. When they don't win the contract the hiree is up the shit creek without a paddle. Hell, I wish I had known this back not too long ago, I worked for a company for a few months after moving overseas being promised a 2 year contract, the contract didn't even last one. I found another job, but fuck $1.9 mil sounds a lot better than that job was :P
I can attest to this. I am a grad student in Japan and I get flack from the immigration officers every time I come home. It's a pain in the ass explaining why I am not studying in the US and what I plan to do in my own god damned country.
That and slashdot doesn't exactly buy the book for the reviewers, they are all user generated. Which means that many of us read reviews of the book before diving in and avoid ones that have negative reputations.
The big problem with Rosetta Stone is that it doesn't really delve that deep into the language. I actually asked a Rosetta stone guy about this once, he referred me to the website which then referred me to an email address which said I should just pick up a regular textbook(the same kind of regular textbook that Rosetta Stone frequently decries), to finish learning the language. Well guess what, the 80-20 rule is a bitch and Rosetta Stone only covers the 20 part.(The 80-20 rule states that it takes you 20% of the total time to learn a language to learn the first 80% and the remaining 80% to learn the last 20). The reason Rosetta Stone can sell so much is that they rely on people being ignorant of that fact and the fact that with almost any textbook a reasonably smart learner can learn the basics of the language quickly. So it seems like Rosetta Stone is teaching you a lot, but thats just cognitive dissonance :P
Partially lost in this whole debate is the fact that there are really 2 ways of giving preferential treatment to traffic, "caching" and "throttling". Throttling is bad, but since it's really cheap to implement the execs like it. Caching on the other hand is much harder and more expensive to implement, but it ultimately ends up being a service instead of a burden to the customer. If Google wants to pay Verizon to cache the most popular 100,000 youtube videos than they should be allowed to. The people that watch said videos get better download times and google saves on bandwidth.
I would hope that such "positive" preferential treatment wouldn't be banned along with throttling, but I can certainly see an upshot, namely enforcement. How is your average customer supposed to know whether or not you are throttling or merely just caching competing content?
How about a new Leisure Suit Larry that:
a)Doesn't suck
b)Is a REAL LSL game, not something starring his nephew or whatever.
It isn't just catering to "noobs" that causes Windows to be insecure, it's very much the culture of Microsoft itself. Microsoft managers are still stuck in the late 90s mentality that their biggest competitor is themselves. The managers constantly try to backstab eachother and refuse to work together on almost anything, and thus security, much like every other component of the OS, is a incoherent, bloated mess. Take the firewall settings in WIndows XP for example. There are no less than 3....THREE! different places in the OS to change firewall settings, and the way they interact and overrule each other is not at all intuitive. It's not just Windows that has this problem, every single group at Microsoft seems to suffer from this. For example the simultaneous development of 3 different, incompatible, mobile device OSs, or 2 different, incompatible, DRM standards, or the fact that the Windows interface is incredibly inconsistent etc.
Windows will not get more secure until the stockholders demand a total housecleaning on Microsofts senior execs and actually replace them with people who can, oh I don't know, MANAGE! The fact that the stockholders haven't called for Ballmer's head yet is just baffling.
Obligatory Dave Attell:
"If you are really afraid of terrorism, don't travel by airplane, travel by bus. You ever been to a bus station? People walking around all dirty, in rags. A terrorist goes to a bus station and sees this and thinks, 'damn, someone already did up this joint'"
So now how will I be able to randomly Browse the phone book looking for. People. With hilarious names. I mean, Harry Ball? That's golden.
No, it increases the complexity of finding AT LEAST ONE valid password on your system. As long as I can get access to an account I can cause all sorts of trouble, not the least is executing one of the myriad of privilege escalation exploits and getting root. If they are after a single password then yeah, it doesn't help. But how do they know ahead of time who has the weakest password. I guess if their real name was Stupid McPicksbadpassword.....
Or Dionysus, the god of both wine AND ecstasy. And let's face it, who hasn't gotten really drunk and tried to have sex with their computer?
If you manage to end up in China when driving a station wagon full of tapes from North Carolina to DC you REALLY are doing it wrong.
Except for the fact that OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of drugs fail, not some, not half, an overwhelming majority, fail. You also seem to think that the worst thing that will happen is that the drug will have no effect. The worst that can happen is that it can kill you faster AND make your last days as agonizing as possible. There is a reason scientists do animal tests first, it's not because they just really like killing mice.