It is useless at this point even if it had no false positives. It can only 'predict' earthquakes with an error margin of days. Any seasoned geologist can do that these days, we've known about earthquake predictors for quite some time and given the measurements, you can predict an impending earthquake quite successfully. The problem is what to do with the data. We can't "fix" earthquakes or stop them before they happen. If you predict an earthquake in San Fransisco or Tokyo that may happen in the next 30 days give or take 10 days, how are you going to evacuate that city for a month?
Even if you simply warn people, you are going to incite panic, riots and looting. And the first time it doesn't quite predict it right on the money, people will lose their trust in the system even though it is scientific and a statistically significant prediction. Or it will be used for someone's financial gain.
The only thing we can do about earthquakes is move people away permanently from earthquake zones. The problem is that people like to live in earthquake zones because it's cheap and earthquakes are generally (with the right construction methods etc) not that bad.
Doesn't mean he can't. Plugins can be licensed differently than the main software (eg. nVidia drivers in the Linux kernel).
Copyright may belong to the company but does not mean the license can be assigned an open license or even become public domain. Where in the world do you work that all companies are vehemently against licensing their work openly.
The company may own it, but if it's licensed openly, depending on the license, he may be able to take it and work on it later in a private setting.
All software I develop, even for companies is licensed under GPL and published in public. I have contracts that describe that my work is done as such and I alter any form contracts that specify otherwise. I so far have not had a whole lot of pushback on the issue after I describe the benefits to the ones in charge (the biggest benefit for them being that I as a company/contractor/developer do not close the software I make for them and they are thus free to find another developer).
Depending on your position and relationship with your employer and their understanding of the ramifications, you may be able to convince them.
Copyright holders can't change the license retroactively in most open licenses. Once it's distributed/sold, the license prevails over the whims of a holder.
I have. If you develop, with the consent of your boss, open sourced software, your boss can't retroactively change the license once it has been distributed. I do not sign non-compete nor IP contracts and develop GPL under my name by contract.
If you're entitled (by contract) they can't change the terms. The issue with staying is that you hit the job market at the same time as your ex co-workers giving you less of a chance for a good negotiation.
All this talk about where you work and contracts is irrelevant if the code is licensed to be freely shared and modified. Make sure your company understands the benefits of open source, then have them allow you to develop under said license. When you decide to incorporate under a different entity, you can resell the open source code using your private resources.
No it's not. There are second rate citizens all over the world, refugees in Europe for example or Tibetans in China.
Although poverty has some influence on 'petty' criminality such as theft and drug use, education levels and religion are the main correlation in assault and rape crimes.
Given that in urban US there are many that are anti-education and pro-religion, the cycle will repeat itself.
Why in the hell would anyone train their replacement though? If you see your job forcibly being taken over by someone else, I would say screw you and walk away.
I live in a 'tract' housing. I don't mind doing the work, the cost is very cheap (60k for 2500sqft vs 300k for 1500 sqft), even if you have to gut/raze the building and rebuild, that would be cheaper than a plot of open land 2 miles away.
I don't know where you live but in the US you're not allowed to just strip lead paint from walls or asbestos and trash it. You need a professional asbestos/lead abatement, permits, trash and dust handling etc.
IMHO they look better. Especially the interiors. I live in an 'old' house like that, it's very cheap to obtain but needs constant repairs and any improvements require major investment (lead and asbestos assessments, if any space renovation triggers the local code it needs to have fire sprinklers and CO/smoke detectors retrofitted).
If Amagoogsoft wants to buy it at 2 or 3 times the market rate, I'll happily sell it and buy one or two down the street (so they can do the same in a few years).
Sure it may be a bit more compact so stop driving a freaking tractor to work every day or rent out a space at a neighborhood garage lot.
You are describing idealized setups. In most cases, the people on the floor don't give a shit about what the architect has said.
The third party firewall is too expensive, I mean we already laid out millions of dollars on SAP licensing, contractors and architects, let's cut it because the Windows box it is running on has a firewall too.
Why does the portal need it's own box? We pay $100k per CPU for SAP and Windows Server licenses cost $10,000 per CPU as well, let's run it on the same box.
That thing keeps locking me out, let's stop it from doing that. We've paid millions of dollars to implement this hack, we need to be able to use it.
Again, trivial to get. I never needed a photo ID to get my birth certificate, I just requested one and they mailed it to me with just a photocopy of my passport.
It's fairly trivial to get a SSN card etc issued to you, if identity thieves could also then get new SSN for themselves it will become even messier.
The government doesn't check your DNA/fingerprint when you go to the SS office. A copy of your birth certificate and a proof of address is plenty, both are easy to get even for someone else.
What do you expect? The money has to be reimbursed regardless so the bank already incurred its loss at the expense of vendors and the tax payer. Pursuing these thieves costs thousands of dollars in personnel, court and lawyer costs only to find most of them cannot be traced, don't have the money to repay them or are outside of their legal jurisdiction. Unless you're talking millions, it's cheaper to take the loss and write it into their tax deduction.
It seems like neither of those sources are doing anything good. If Seattle is already being cleaned up and has it's own monitor website and then a couple of nerds uncover troves of issues, then neither the government nor the monitor is doing it's job and is more likely helping to cover things up rather than expose them.
Is that games from back then can fit in a tweet from nowadays. Imagine that every stupid tweet you have ever sent, seen or received is a full-fledged video game. That's how scarce our storage space was back then (and we liked it).
Then you probably need a better screen. Back then, the highest resolution was 640x480 and later 1024x768. If your system can't double or quadruple that correctly then you need to get a better display. Or don't resize it at all. Back then we DID play on 12"/14" displays.
7kWh should be plenty. That is (on a regular 110V grid) 15A continuous for 4h. I doubt some LED lights, an efficient fridge/freezer and some charging devices use that much.
The company was taken over by the music industry, any statements and actions are thus by the record companies who're sending a clear message they don't want a streaming service.
Local people get local wages. If you weren't tied down to a geographic location and you get an offer 10x what you are currently making overseas, wouldn't you take it?
So we can pay dues to a large corporation and still get nothing out of it?
Unions are not what they used to be, they used to be ran for workers that did menial jobs that anyone could do so everyone that did the same job would get equal treatment and wages. Nowadays they're just the middle man to the "you're getting fucked" train. IT isn't a menial job anyone could do, a good IT person (programmer, sysadmin etc) is more like a lawyer or a doctor, highly specialized, well trained individuals that are very hard to replace.
Programmers and sysadmins need to make sure they can't be easily replaced. Stop saying that 'anyone can program with language x' because not anyone can program. Most people can't even program a box if you gave them LOGO. Most of the college grads or H1B'ers shouldn't be able to do your job, if they can, then you're not as special or good as you think you are (unless you're a college grad or H1B'er yourself). If you have 5 years or more experience and you're able to be replaced by an H1B'er, then you haven't learned anything. If some PHB decides to replace you anyway, they should be begging you to come back in a few months. Happened to me quite a few times.
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It is useless at this point even if it had no false positives. It can only 'predict' earthquakes with an error margin of days. Any seasoned geologist can do that these days, we've known about earthquake predictors for quite some time and given the measurements, you can predict an impending earthquake quite successfully. The problem is what to do with the data. We can't "fix" earthquakes or stop them before they happen. If you predict an earthquake in San Fransisco or Tokyo that may happen in the next 30 days give or take 10 days, how are you going to evacuate that city for a month?
Even if you simply warn people, you are going to incite panic, riots and looting. And the first time it doesn't quite predict it right on the money, people will lose their trust in the system even though it is scientific and a statistically significant prediction. Or it will be used for someone's financial gain.
The only thing we can do about earthquakes is move people away permanently from earthquake zones. The problem is that people like to live in earthquake zones because it's cheap and earthquakes are generally (with the right construction methods etc) not that bad.
I faxed a copy. Nothing anyone can't generate online/fake.
Doesn't mean he can't. Plugins can be licensed differently than the main software (eg. nVidia drivers in the Linux kernel).
Copyright may belong to the company but does not mean the license can be assigned an open license or even become public domain. Where in the world do you work that all companies are vehemently against licensing their work openly.
The company may own it, but if it's licensed openly, depending on the license, he may be able to take it and work on it later in a private setting.
All software I develop, even for companies is licensed under GPL and published in public. I have contracts that describe that my work is done as such and I alter any form contracts that specify otherwise. I so far have not had a whole lot of pushback on the issue after I describe the benefits to the ones in charge (the biggest benefit for them being that I as a company/contractor/developer do not close the software I make for them and they are thus free to find another developer).
Depending on your position and relationship with your employer and their understanding of the ramifications, you may be able to convince them.
Copyright holders can't change the license retroactively in most open licenses. Once it's distributed/sold, the license prevails over the whims of a holder.
I have. If you develop, with the consent of your boss, open sourced software, your boss can't retroactively change the license once it has been distributed. I do not sign non-compete nor IP contracts and develop GPL under my name by contract.
If you're entitled (by contract) they can't change the terms. The issue with staying is that you hit the job market at the same time as your ex co-workers giving you less of a chance for a good negotiation.
All this talk about where you work and contracts is irrelevant if the code is licensed to be freely shared and modified. Make sure your company understands the benefits of open source, then have them allow you to develop under said license. When you decide to incorporate under a different entity, you can resell the open source code using your private resources.
No it's not. There are second rate citizens all over the world, refugees in Europe for example or Tibetans in China.
Although poverty has some influence on 'petty' criminality such as theft and drug use, education levels and religion are the main correlation in assault and rape crimes.
Given that in urban US there are many that are anti-education and pro-religion, the cycle will repeat itself.
Why in the hell would anyone train their replacement though? If you see your job forcibly being taken over by someone else, I would say screw you and walk away.
I live in a 'tract' housing. I don't mind doing the work, the cost is very cheap (60k for 2500sqft vs 300k for 1500 sqft), even if you have to gut/raze the building and rebuild, that would be cheaper than a plot of open land 2 miles away.
I don't know where you live but in the US you're not allowed to just strip lead paint from walls or asbestos and trash it. You need a professional asbestos/lead abatement, permits, trash and dust handling etc.
IMHO they look better. Especially the interiors. I live in an 'old' house like that, it's very cheap to obtain but needs constant repairs and any improvements require major investment (lead and asbestos assessments, if any space renovation triggers the local code it needs to have fire sprinklers and CO/smoke detectors retrofitted).
If Amagoogsoft wants to buy it at 2 or 3 times the market rate, I'll happily sell it and buy one or two down the street (so they can do the same in a few years).
Sure it may be a bit more compact so stop driving a freaking tractor to work every day or rent out a space at a neighborhood garage lot.
You are describing idealized setups. In most cases, the people on the floor don't give a shit about what the architect has said.
The third party firewall is too expensive, I mean we already laid out millions of dollars on SAP licensing, contractors and architects, let's cut it because the Windows box it is running on has a firewall too.
Why does the portal need it's own box? We pay $100k per CPU for SAP and Windows Server licenses cost $10,000 per CPU as well, let's run it on the same box.
That thing keeps locking me out, let's stop it from doing that. We've paid millions of dollars to implement this hack, we need to be able to use it.
etc. etc.
Again, trivial to get. I never needed a photo ID to get my birth certificate, I just requested one and they mailed it to me with just a photocopy of my passport.
It's fairly trivial to get a SSN card etc issued to you, if identity thieves could also then get new SSN for themselves it will become even messier.
The government doesn't check your DNA/fingerprint when you go to the SS office. A copy of your birth certificate and a proof of address is plenty, both are easy to get even for someone else.
What do you expect? The money has to be reimbursed regardless so the bank already incurred its loss at the expense of vendors and the tax payer. Pursuing these thieves costs thousands of dollars in personnel, court and lawyer costs only to find most of them cannot be traced, don't have the money to repay them or are outside of their legal jurisdiction. Unless you're talking millions, it's cheaper to take the loss and write it into their tax deduction.
It seems like neither of those sources are doing anything good. If Seattle is already being cleaned up and has it's own monitor website and then a couple of nerds uncover troves of issues, then neither the government nor the monitor is doing it's job and is more likely helping to cover things up rather than expose them.
Is that games from back then can fit in a tweet from nowadays. Imagine that every stupid tweet you have ever sent, seen or received is a full-fledged video game. That's how scarce our storage space was back then (and we liked it).
Then you probably need a better screen. Back then, the highest resolution was 640x480 and later 1024x768. If your system can't double or quadruple that correctly then you need to get a better display. Or don't resize it at all. Back then we DID play on 12"/14" displays.
7kWh should be plenty. That is (on a regular 110V grid) 15A continuous for 4h. I doubt some LED lights, an efficient fridge/freezer and some charging devices use that much.
The company was taken over by the music industry, any statements and actions are thus by the record companies who're sending a clear message they don't want a streaming service.
That and tattoo sleeves. And Apple told them about it on the website...
Local people get local wages. If you weren't tied down to a geographic location and you get an offer 10x what you are currently making overseas, wouldn't you take it?
Both of those remarks are utterly illegal and you could have had their job or their money if you sued them.
So we can pay dues to a large corporation and still get nothing out of it?
Unions are not what they used to be, they used to be ran for workers that did menial jobs that anyone could do so everyone that did the same job would get equal treatment and wages. Nowadays they're just the middle man to the "you're getting fucked" train. IT isn't a menial job anyone could do, a good IT person (programmer, sysadmin etc) is more like a lawyer or a doctor, highly specialized, well trained individuals that are very hard to replace.
Programmers and sysadmins need to make sure they can't be easily replaced. Stop saying that 'anyone can program with language x' because not anyone can program. Most people can't even program a box if you gave them LOGO. Most of the college grads or H1B'ers shouldn't be able to do your job, if they can, then you're not as special or good as you think you are (unless you're a college grad or H1B'er yourself). If you have 5 years or more experience and you're able to be replaced by an H1B'er, then you haven't learned anything. If some PHB decides to replace you anyway, they should be begging you to come back in a few months. Happened to me quite a few times.