Then please tell me who has already thought of explaining the expansion of the universe by considering the matter-to-energy conversion occuring within stars and realizing that the disappearing matter reduces space curvature, expanding it. Accelerating star formation and total power output would thus produce accelerating expansion of the universe. Do try to find any astrophysicists who has done these calculations. I'd be very interested to read their papers.
Oh okay, I'm it's perfectly objective, then.
As long as the guys trying to get evidence of increased CO2 are admittedly excluding 15% of daily data, it's a perfectly objective source.
Or you could report readings that AREN'T on top of a giant CO2 vent. Seriously, you have to REALLY want to believe them if you need to pretend that's credible. Don't you have any interest at all in knowing what's actually going on? I can sort of understand fandom, though I prefer intellectual honesty. Even hardcore sports fans WATCH THE GAME to find out what happened, though. They don't just pretend their team won.
I don't really think you're justified in attacking the character and reputation of the scientists, as despite your claims to the contrary you have completely closed your mind to any facts that violate your "beliefs". You don't prefer intellectual honesty, you prefer to spout half-truths. To wit:
As others have pointed out, they get extremely consistent readings all day and most of the night, except when a temperature inversion when the readings go up. Then they DELETE THOSE RECORDS. If they wanted to get evidence of increased CO2, according to your model they would leave those in. Their readings are consistent with other monitoring stations. Are they all secretly conspiring to push the number up?
I'd suggest you reconsider posting inconsistent and poorly thought out posts on science, here or anywhere else, especially those embellished with attacks on people's character.
IMO you've got it backwards. The licenses ("shields" or "medallions") cost so much because they're a licence to print money once acquired. In NYC "corporate" medallions have sold for over $1 million. They sell for that much because the owner can get a better return on his investment than he can investing it in other ways, adjusted for risk. Medallion owners tend to play municipal politics well, to protect their investment. They also fool the public into feeling sorry for them. Please don't fall for it.
Yup, this is worthless.
in TFA, the person creating the pretty images is cited:
"Wifi waves are about 3 to 5 inches from crest to crest.
The crests of waves is translated to a 1 by a computer,
and the the troughs equal a 0."
I laughed out loud and closed the tab.
I had exactly the same reaction. WTF??? He had an expert astrobiologist advisor too... I guess he calls a baker when he wants his hair cut.
I remember at the time I considered RIM to be good for business and good about security and privacy. Then they sold out.
Did they? They gave the Indian government access to some types of messages, but not others AND THEY TOLD EVERYONE WHICH ONES ARE STILL SECURE. Anyone caring about security can use BES, and those not caring can use BBM. It's not as convenient, but those for whom security is important still have it. Since it's business users who pay their rent, and it's business users who use BES their core interest is protected, and India can say they have access to terrorist communications, since terrorists presumably don't have Exchange servers.
To me it looks like they won more than they sold out, but yes, overall we're still slipping towards less privacy.
Anyone with access to the NAS over the network and an SSH client can enter a username and password, gain elevated privileges to the cluster, and while not allowing access to the data directly from that interface, access can disable the cluster or delete all the data within it, as well as wiping out partition information, etc.
So anyone including unhappy ex-employees who still have access to the network or physical access to a machine, and who might be interested in holding their former employer to ransom? Including current employees eager to become ex-employees and interested in changing this password in case their reference letter isn't what they wanted? Including anyone who can get the IP address and is interested in shit-disturbing? It sounds like a race to change this password is on as every single unit probably is a target now.
Just out of curiosity, since it's relevant but perhaps well known to most here but me, are rainbow tables capable of mixed letters and numbers and, say, 8 character pw length already widely available and searchable that fast with ordinary hardware? Are all my passwords (for those places still not accepting passphrases, which is most I deal with) that vulnerable once/etc/shadows is accessed?
The DoD is well known for changing the specs of a project constantly through out the life time of a program so I'm not surprised the update in the 90s failed it probably had 5,000+ changes from it's initial concept and then you add in the required corruption and incompetence needed to be a government employee or contractor and it makes perfect sense it failed.
I'm sure you're right, as somebody else pointed out if even a little low, due to common feature creep. I suspect though that many of these were because the original RFP described all the users and uses of the system the RFP authors knew about. When people were given the opportunity to explain who actually used the system, and how, the system design had to be continually reinvented.
The comparison to rape victims is quite accurate; rape victims used to be blamed for going out at night, or not having a "friend" (male) with them, to not carrying self-defense devices, to being dressed "like that."
No it's really not. Your examples show how poorly some people can react to such accidents. They are condescending, and annoy you greatly. I sympathize with that. Blaming the victim in a rape is beyond condescending -- it's encouraging a group of potential rapists to go out and horribly violate innocent women. They are not anywhere near the same thing, and the comparison is not accurate.
I was just struck by a driver recently. The ER doctor finished up his exam by instructing me to "ride defensively" and "bike carefully." I had been operating legally and prudently, and the driver in a split second cut me off and stopped - blocking the road. There was nothing I could do. I was a victim. And the ER doctor was lecturing me, implying it was my fault for not being "careful" enough.
Again, I sympathize that he was condescending and you were annoyed. It's up to you whether you rage against that on/. or explain to him why you think he's out of line, or just let it be.
No kidding, I'm glad I wasted a few seconds to look them up. I love this line: "A space with no division between yound [sic] and old - where synchronicity and talent collide in a paella of colour and flavour!"
Thanks for the cruisers forum link, learned a lot there. The very first search seems to have been ENE of NZ, then they went north and west assuming progress towards Oz, now looking back at NZ, apparently under the assumption she's been dismasted or otherwise disabled. The boat was fitted with a new engine in Opua, and the engine was only run in for 30 minutes before they departed, so a loss of electricity seems a logical assumption from the lack of communication.
SARS have *not* called off the search. While things look grave there are certainly reasons to remain hopeful -- good crew, strong boat, logical explanation for loss of electronics. I wouldn't write them off yet.
That's interesting, I don't get the Daily Show over cable here in Indonesia either, but the online feed from comedy.com works just fine. I watched several episodes earlier today.
There are two problems with this whole deal. First is something our law calls "reasonable expectation". Now, I don't know if the US have something similar in place, but if not, at least not acting in the spirit of that law makes you a pretty big asshole. The deal here is that when you enter a contract, you have a "reasonable expectation". When I hire a tiler, I do reasonably expect him that he knows how to do it, that he brings his own tools, that he will cover my floor and/or walls in tiles (and not, say, mortadella). Anything that I may "reasonably" expect but is NOT the case has to be explicitly stated and, depending on who are the parties in the contract, may need to be printed out boldly and signed separately, just to be sure it's not hidden somewhere in the legalese bull. When you enter in a deal with a party that advertises something in one way and then it turns out it's exactly the other way around, it's at the very least deceptive.
The other, and bigger, problem is that it's due entirely the moment you decide to leave them. That allows them to force their poorer customers into staying because these people cannot afford to pay off 200+ dollars NOW.
Now, as odd as it may sound, I wouldn't have so much of a problem with the first issue. There's nothing wrong with selling a phone in installments. Cars have been sold that way for decades, why not phones? The problem is rather that people who have to buy a phone on installments are also the same people that can't simply cough up the rest of the amount owed instantly. Else, why the installment in the first place? These people are locked into a contract they can't get out of because they simply cannot afford it. There would nothing be wrong if the installment plan simply kept running for its allotted time, the really deceptive part here is the "stay or pay" gun to the chest.
I confess I don't understand your logic at all. If they were violating the principle of reasonable expectation I would have a big problem with that, but they aren't (read most of the posts here). If they are demanding that you pay the balance due on your loan I don't have a problem with that either. You knew what you were signing up for, they subsidized your goddamn phone (0% interest) and you canceled the revenue stream side of their business. In exchange they asked for you to pay the balance of your loan. You could certainly sell the used phone (according to posts here, they will even buy it back from you) and use that cash to pay off the loan. It's hardly usurious at 0% interest.
From a practical point of view, if you signed up for a $50 / month plan, you are unlikely to have problem raising the $200 remaining. The gun at your chest is a water pistol. If your balance is really only $200 and you walk away, you will not get pursued by goons, but you might suffer a hit to your credit rating -- exactly as you would reasonably expect. I understand about hard times, but I don't see this as being a problem legally, morally or practically. I think it's a case of the USA phone system distorting reality for so long that people no longer understand how things are supposed to work.
It's because they don't want to deal with stand-alone micro-loans. Anytime you take on a debt, you enter a contract. What t-mobile is advertising is no contract for service. agree with rudy_wayne.
Not really. It's because, by offering a 0% loan, they are subsidizing the phone sale with revenue from the service agreement. If you decide you want to back out of your service agreement with them, they allow that but they don't want to continue to subsidize the phone. It is of course a bit of lock-in, but so much less so than others that this should be a non-issue. To be honest, this case just shows that Americans have been so badly treated by their phone companies for so long that they no longer understand common sense when it comes to the difference between purchasing a phone and purchasing a phone service.
Fortunately for me, here in third-world Indonesia there are no service plans, and we can all buy as many phones and SIM cards as we want. Result -- people in cities have two, sometimes three phones, and use them a lot very cheaply. People are generally very satisfied with their phone company. Phone companies keep upgrading their infrastructure, and are quite profitable. I don't know what's wrong over there...
That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard.
First off the road is not free. It already costs loads of money to maintain cars, insurance, and gas, and you pay for the road in your taxes. That is like saying the solution to house hold fires is to make people pay x thousand dollars before the firemen turn on the hoses.
You're very vehement for someone so incorrect. Use of a road is so different from asking for help from the fire department that I don't see what could possibly make you think they're similar. Okay, they're both public services, I get that. After that, nada.
The way to get the most efficient system is to have supply meet demand, and that cannot be at a price point of zero forever. Having to pay some amount for a service encourages or forces people to make choices, including whether they should work from home that day in the short term. Longer term it might influence their choices in place of employment or residence. That allows the taxpayer you seem so concerned about to maximize the public benefit of the whole system. Mass rapid transit is paid for by the taxpayer, so presumably that should be free also? Let me guess, you only drive so that's not relevant.
Preventing people from travelling/taxing it beyond reason is only something you would want to do if you wanted to stifle the economy.
There is not a infinite demand for roads. There are a finite number of people trying to go to a finite number of places. And all of them are either going somewhere to make money or to spend it. The only correct way to plan a cities transit system is to provide enough transit to accommodate all of these trips.
There is also a finite amount of land to be built upon, a finite amount of public money to use to build roads and so on. In general the people who plan urban transportation are not idiots. They know the costs to the economy, and their political bosses hear the complaints of the public and businesses. They don't set out to underbuild a road system just to piss you off. They try to maximize the effectiveness of the whole system given their constraints due to availability of money, land issues, political realities and so on. It seems that you understand that the number of drivers is not infinite, but you think that everything else is, or should be. That is irrational.
In the future, hopefully we'll have nuclear reactors in every car. A small fusion generator powering every car. If we can shrink it small enough and keep it energy positive, it'll be everywhere.
Sure, sounds good to me. If we're thinking big, make mine the flying car I've been waiting for;-)
Bitcoins are unique based on a mathematical property. The state has about as much chance of controlling this as it has to declaring pi equal to three. This is a good thing.
Well, sure, three is right out -- only a religious nut would pick three. Now if you had said 3.2 or something...
"such as antibiotic treatments used as placebos for vial infections.""
With proper sterilization techniques, you wouldn't get infections from vials in the first place.
(or use new vials so there's no risk of contamination - which they do in US hospitals since they charge so much they have new everything.
I guess that might not be an option on the NHS
I think you are misinterpreting the summary. I suspect the author was editorializing a bit and meant to talk about "vile infections." God knows they can knock you around, even with a good placebo.
As I understand it, and nothing I've read makes this perfectly clear, this shutdown is part of gearing up to move from shooting protons around to shooting much heavier shit around, lead nuclei. The bangs when they hit get much bigger. Bigger bangs have to be better, so this is a good thing.
My bank, HSBC in Indonesia (but I suspect their web framework is the same around the world) requires a user ID, a password (must be characters and numbers IIRC) and a one-time key from a dongle. I'm generally happy with it. But... the user ID is case sensitive and the password *isn't*. I just know this because in the early days I was assigned an upper case user ID and I never changed it, and I sometimes forget to hit the caps lock key to unset it before entering the password. I just hope they convert the password to a consistent case then hash it for comparison to a hashed password in the DB
Mod parent up please. Lots of these apps have been around for a while, and some of them are open source and usable. The government integration would be useful, but really the key is just getting everyone using the same thing. Random Hacks of Kindness has spent some time on this field also.
Yeah, what you said. In fact my computer here in Indonesia says this was posted at 07:40 am on Friday. So is the meetup on Thursday or Friday? It would be nice if people, you know, thought.
what was GM to do hire new to GM people and not the people who have been on site under the old outsource? People who know the site and how stuff works?
this just part of why outsourcing sucks and some of the pit falls others are people being bounced site to site / client to client some times with out your control / input.
Not having full control over who makes it on site.
The paper work gap / time off gap that happens with when the same people stay on site but the outsource companie changes.
No, GM should have talked to HP and offered to take over the contracts of the team members currently working on this job. Doing it the way they did is slimy, and now the employees, who certainly appear to be guilty of violating the terms of their contracts, and in two cases of encouraging others to violate their contracts, are suffering. The employees are guilty and suffering for it, but GM blew an opportunity to be the ethical, respectable party in this, and took the low, or just easier, road.
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Man, the more I read the summary the more I was thinking that exact thought. Laughed and laughed -- still chuckling.
Then please tell me who has already thought of explaining the expansion of the universe by considering the matter-to-energy conversion occuring within stars and realizing that the disappearing matter reduces space curvature, expanding it. Accelerating star formation and total power output would thus produce accelerating expansion of the universe. Do try to find any astrophysicists who has done these calculations. I'd be very interested to read their papers.
E=MC2 is an equivalence, not a transformation.
Oh okay, I'm it's perfectly objective, then. As long as the guys trying to get evidence of increased CO2 are admittedly excluding 15% of daily data, it's a perfectly objective source. Or you could report readings that AREN'T on top of a giant CO2 vent. Seriously, you have to REALLY want to believe them if you need to pretend that's credible. Don't you have any interest at all in knowing what's actually going on? I can sort of understand fandom, though I prefer intellectual honesty. Even hardcore sports fans WATCH THE GAME to find out what happened, though. They don't just pretend their team won.
I don't really think you're justified in attacking the character and reputation of the scientists, as despite your claims to the contrary you have completely closed your mind to any facts that violate your "beliefs". You don't prefer intellectual honesty, you prefer to spout half-truths. To wit:
As others have pointed out, they get extremely consistent readings all day and most of the night, except when a temperature inversion when the readings go up. Then they DELETE THOSE RECORDS. If they wanted to get evidence of increased CO2, according to your model they would leave those in. Their readings are consistent with other monitoring stations. Are they all secretly conspiring to push the number up?
I'd suggest you reconsider posting inconsistent and poorly thought out posts on science, here or anywhere else, especially those embellished with attacks on people's character.
IMO you've got it backwards. The licenses ("shields" or "medallions") cost so much because they're a licence to print money once acquired. In NYC "corporate" medallions have sold for over $1 million. They sell for that much because the owner can get a better return on his investment than he can investing it in other ways, adjusted for risk. Medallion owners tend to play municipal politics well, to protect their investment. They also fool the public into feeling sorry for them. Please don't fall for it.
Yup, this is worthless. in TFA, the person creating the pretty images is cited: "Wifi waves are about 3 to 5 inches from crest to crest. The crests of waves is translated to a 1 by a computer, and the the troughs equal a 0." I laughed out loud and closed the tab.
I had exactly the same reaction. WTF??? He had an expert astrobiologist advisor too... I guess he calls a baker when he wants his hair cut.
They lost a lot of good will because of that.
I remember at the time I considered RIM to be good for business and good about security and privacy. Then they sold out.
Did they? They gave the Indian government access to some types of messages, but not others AND THEY TOLD EVERYONE WHICH ONES ARE STILL SECURE. Anyone caring about security can use BES, and those not caring can use BBM. It's not as convenient, but those for whom security is important still have it. Since it's business users who pay their rent, and it's business users who use BES their core interest is protected, and India can say they have access to terrorist communications, since terrorists presumably don't have Exchange servers.
To me it looks like they won more than they sold out, but yes, overall we're still slipping towards less privacy.
Anyone with access to the NAS over the network and an SSH client can enter a username and password, gain elevated privileges to the cluster, and while not allowing access to the data directly from that interface, access can disable the cluster or delete all the data within it, as well as wiping out partition information, etc.
So anyone including unhappy ex-employees who still have access to the network or physical access to a machine, and who might be interested in holding their former employer to ransom? Including current employees eager to become ex-employees and interested in changing this password in case their reference letter isn't what they wanted? Including anyone who can get the IP address and is interested in shit-disturbing? It sounds like a race to change this password is on as every single unit probably is a target now.
Just out of curiosity, since it's relevant but perhaps well known to most here but me, are rainbow tables capable of mixed letters and numbers and, say, 8 character pw length already widely available and searchable that fast with ordinary hardware? Are all my passwords (for those places still not accepting passphrases, which is most I deal with) that vulnerable once /etc/shadows is accessed?
The DoD is well known for changing the specs of a project constantly through out the life time of a program so I'm not surprised the update in the 90s failed it probably had 5,000+ changes from it's initial concept and then you add in the required corruption and incompetence needed to be a government employee or contractor and it makes perfect sense it failed.
I'm sure you're right, as somebody else pointed out if even a little low, due to common feature creep. I suspect though that many of these were because the original RFP described all the users and uses of the system the RFP authors knew about. When people were given the opportunity to explain who actually used the system, and how, the system design had to be continually reinvented.
The comparison to rape victims is quite accurate; rape victims used to be blamed for going out at night, or not having a "friend" (male) with them, to not carrying self-defense devices, to being dressed "like that."
No it's really not. Your examples show how poorly some people can react to such accidents. They are condescending, and annoy you greatly. I sympathize with that. Blaming the victim in a rape is beyond condescending -- it's encouraging a group of potential rapists to go out and horribly violate innocent women. They are not anywhere near the same thing, and the comparison is not accurate.
I was just struck by a driver recently. The ER doctor finished up his exam by instructing me to "ride defensively" and "bike carefully." I had been operating legally and prudently, and the driver in a split second cut me off and stopped - blocking the road. There was nothing I could do. I was a victim. And the ER doctor was lecturing me, implying it was my fault for not being "careful" enough.
Again, I sympathize that he was condescending and you were annoyed. It's up to you whether you rage against that on /. or explain to him why you think he's out of line, or just let it be.
Priceless!
SARS have *not* called off the search. While things look grave there are certainly reasons to remain hopeful -- good crew, strong boat, logical explanation for loss of electronics. I wouldn't write them off yet.
Dean -- used to sail a bit
That's interesting, I don't get the Daily Show over cable here in Indonesia either, but the online feed from comedy.com works just fine. I watched several episodes earlier today.
There are two problems with this whole deal. First is something our law calls "reasonable expectation". Now, I don't know if the US have something similar in place, but if not, at least not acting in the spirit of that law makes you a pretty big asshole. The deal here is that when you enter a contract, you have a "reasonable expectation". When I hire a tiler, I do reasonably expect him that he knows how to do it, that he brings his own tools, that he will cover my floor and/or walls in tiles (and not, say, mortadella). Anything that I may "reasonably" expect but is NOT the case has to be explicitly stated and, depending on who are the parties in the contract, may need to be printed out boldly and signed separately, just to be sure it's not hidden somewhere in the legalese bull. When you enter in a deal with a party that advertises something in one way and then it turns out it's exactly the other way around, it's at the very least deceptive.
The other, and bigger, problem is that it's due entirely the moment you decide to leave them. That allows them to force their poorer customers into staying because these people cannot afford to pay off 200+ dollars NOW.
Now, as odd as it may sound, I wouldn't have so much of a problem with the first issue. There's nothing wrong with selling a phone in installments. Cars have been sold that way for decades, why not phones? The problem is rather that people who have to buy a phone on installments are also the same people that can't simply cough up the rest of the amount owed instantly. Else, why the installment in the first place? These people are locked into a contract they can't get out of because they simply cannot afford it. There would nothing be wrong if the installment plan simply kept running for its allotted time, the really deceptive part here is the "stay or pay" gun to the chest.
I confess I don't understand your logic at all. If they were violating the principle of reasonable expectation I would have a big problem with that, but they aren't (read most of the posts here). If they are demanding that you pay the balance due on your loan I don't have a problem with that either. You knew what you were signing up for, they subsidized your goddamn phone (0% interest) and you canceled the revenue stream side of their business. In exchange they asked for you to pay the balance of your loan. You could certainly sell the used phone (according to posts here, they will even buy it back from you) and use that cash to pay off the loan. It's hardly usurious at 0% interest.
From a practical point of view, if you signed up for a $50 / month plan, you are unlikely to have problem raising the $200 remaining. The gun at your chest is a water pistol. If your balance is really only $200 and you walk away, you will not get pursued by goons, but you might suffer a hit to your credit rating -- exactly as you would reasonably expect. I understand about hard times, but I don't see this as being a problem legally, morally or practically. I think it's a case of the USA phone system distorting reality for so long that people no longer understand how things are supposed to work.
I did like the mortadella line.
It's because they don't want to deal with stand-alone micro-loans. Anytime you take on a debt, you enter a contract. What t-mobile is advertising is no contract for service. agree with rudy_wayne.
Not really. It's because, by offering a 0% loan, they are subsidizing the phone sale with revenue from the service agreement. If you decide you want to back out of your service agreement with them, they allow that but they don't want to continue to subsidize the phone. It is of course a bit of lock-in, but so much less so than others that this should be a non-issue. To be honest, this case just shows that Americans have been so badly treated by their phone companies for so long that they no longer understand common sense when it comes to the difference between purchasing a phone and purchasing a phone service.
Fortunately for me, here in third-world Indonesia there are no service plans, and we can all buy as many phones and SIM cards as we want. Result -- people in cities have two, sometimes three phones, and use them a lot very cheaply. People are generally very satisfied with their phone company. Phone companies keep upgrading their infrastructure, and are quite profitable. I don't know what's wrong over there...
That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. First off the road is not free. It already costs loads of money to maintain cars, insurance, and gas, and you pay for the road in your taxes. That is like saying the solution to house hold fires is to make people pay x thousand dollars before the firemen turn on the hoses.
You're very vehement for someone so incorrect. Use of a road is so different from asking for help from the fire department that I don't see what could possibly make you think they're similar. Okay, they're both public services, I get that. After that, nada.
The way to get the most efficient system is to have supply meet demand, and that cannot be at a price point of zero forever. Having to pay some amount for a service encourages or forces people to make choices, including whether they should work from home that day in the short term. Longer term it might influence their choices in place of employment or residence. That allows the taxpayer you seem so concerned about to maximize the public benefit of the whole system. Mass rapid transit is paid for by the taxpayer, so presumably that should be free also? Let me guess, you only drive so that's not relevant.
Preventing people from travelling/taxing it beyond reason is only something you would want to do if you wanted to stifle the economy.
There is not a infinite demand for roads. There are a finite number of people trying to go to a finite number of places. And all of them are either going somewhere to make money or to spend it. The only correct way to plan a cities transit system is to provide enough transit to accommodate all of these trips.
There is also a finite amount of land to be built upon, a finite amount of public money to use to build roads and so on. In general the people who plan urban transportation are not idiots. They know the costs to the economy, and their political bosses hear the complaints of the public and businesses. They don't set out to underbuild a road system just to piss you off. They try to maximize the effectiveness of the whole system given their constraints due to availability of money, land issues, political realities and so on. It seems that you understand that the number of drivers is not infinite, but you think that everything else is, or should be. That is irrational.
In the future, hopefully we'll have nuclear reactors in every car. A small fusion generator powering every car. If we can shrink it small enough and keep it energy positive, it'll be everywhere.
Sure, sounds good to me. If we're thinking big, make mine the flying car I've been waiting for ;-)
Bitcoins are unique based on a mathematical property. The state has about as much chance of controlling this as it has to declaring pi equal to three. This is a good thing.
Well, sure, three is right out -- only a religious nut would pick three. Now if you had said 3.2 or something...
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/805/did-a-state-legislature-once-pass-a-law-saying-pi-equals-3
"such as antibiotic treatments used as placebos for vial infections.""
With proper sterilization techniques, you wouldn't get infections from vials in the first place. (or use new vials so there's no risk of contamination - which they do in US hospitals since they charge so much they have new everything. I guess that might not be an option on the NHS
I think you are misinterpreting the summary. I suspect the author was editorializing a bit and meant to talk about "vile infections." God knows they can knock you around, even with a good placebo.
As I understand it, and nothing I've read makes this perfectly clear, this shutdown is part of gearing up to move from shooting protons around to shooting much heavier shit around, lead nuclei. The bangs when they hit get much bigger. Bigger bangs have to be better, so this is a good thing.
My bank, HSBC in Indonesia (but I suspect their web framework is the same around the world) requires a user ID, a password (must be characters and numbers IIRC) and a one-time key from a dongle. I'm generally happy with it. But... the user ID is case sensitive and the password *isn't*. I just know this because in the early days I was assigned an upper case user ID and I never changed it, and I sometimes forget to hit the caps lock key to unset it before entering the password. I just hope they convert the password to a consistent case then hash it for comparison to a hashed password in the DB
Mod parent up please. Lots of these apps have been around for a while, and some of them are open source and usable. The government integration would be useful, but really the key is just getting everyone using the same thing. Random Hacks of Kindness has spent some time on this field also.
Yeah, what you said. In fact my computer here in Indonesia says this was posted at 07:40 am on Friday. So is the meetup on Thursday or Friday? It would be nice if people, you know, thought.
what was GM to do hire new to GM people and not the people who have been on site under the old outsource? People who know the site and how stuff works?
this just part of why outsourcing sucks and some of the pit falls others are people being bounced site to site / client to client some times with out your control / input.
Not having full control over who makes it on site.
The paper work gap / time off gap that happens with when the same people stay on site but the outsource companie changes.
No, GM should have talked to HP and offered to take over the contracts of the team members currently working on this job. Doing it the way they did is slimy, and now the employees, who certainly appear to be guilty of violating the terms of their contracts, and in two cases of encouraging others to violate their contracts, are suffering. The employees are guilty and suffering for it, but GM blew an opportunity to be the ethical, respectable party in this, and took the low, or just easier, road.
I just checked and I'm running Version 23.0.1271.91 m
WTF?