The Florida situation is a perfect example of how useless they are as the only way to make sure that ballot box was not tampered with would be to manually verify each vote with the "person" that cast it and verify its accuracy. Of course, you also have to verify that the person you are contacting IS is eligible to vote and is not trying to commit identity theft / election fraud.
Yup, never going to happen and just another way for people to try and cheat and game the system or be tricked in to thinking they can vote at the last minute and still get their voice heard, thereby reinforcing a poor state of personal responsibility to get registered AND to vote.
Violence is a great response to conflicting ideas. Plus, being a tough guy on the Internet definitely helps your argument, and won't get you mocked at all.
Regulate them as carriers? Sure, that's an interesting discussion, and the conclusion isn't obvious. But break them up? On what basis other than envy?
Really the only basis is anti competitive practices with their hardware platforms or software services. If there are contracts that force customers, partners or vendors to only use big tech company A's products, then sure antitrust issue there especially if the market intrusion is significant.
I suspect this has more to do with the free speech argument floating around; aka political pages, channels and media creators being banned because of TOS violations and then their supporters crying a violation of free speech, so politicians start to cry antitrust. And now we have the supreme court about to hear a case of whether freedom of speech applies with private corporations, so antitrust could balloon in to constitutional violation arguments.
There is some irony here... but not on topic.
You can't own a tank with a working cannon on it, although you can own a tank. You aren't allowed to make explosives without a license. You can't transfer a fully automatic weapon without going through a lot of paperwork and clearances -- which is a policy initiated by Reagan.
Pay the fee and pass the background check (i.e. register your cannon shells!). I have a friend that shoots off civil war era cannons every fourth of July and it is freaking awesome to watch. He also is under intense scrutiny from the ATF and other federal agencies because of this and probably the 1,500 odd guns he owns (yup he is a collector).
Lmao! Always sooooo funny when an anonymous person using a fake name such as Tesin tries to de-legitimize other anonymous people... FOR ALSO BEING ANONYMOUS!!
You we-hate-AC types are so stupid you are impervious to your own hypocrisy.
Ah yes, my pseudonym is at least tied to an enduring account - whereas you post from as an AC, complaining about my apparent "hypocrisy". Also it is Tesen, not Tesin.
Sometimes I do wish Trump was an autocrat and I was in his employ. Then I could hunt down fuckers like you and put a bullet through your brain just for being a Supreme Asshole.
But alas, your stupid imaginary world of Trump the dictator is more fake than these Global Warming scares.
Spoken like the cowardly right winger posting from an anonymous account, one hand on a small weapon the other on his keyboard.The only thing you shoot and by that I mean dribble, is in to a sock.
In addition, the tangled web of information selling to third parties adds a level of complexity to what I said obviously which is a totally different discussion.
You notice how some of the worst people in the world are now using Trump's antics to excuse the most dishonest and despicable behavior?
Yes indeed. I mean really making Google and Facebook respect your privacy or at the very least spell out how your data is used. Imagine the cheek.
Google and Facebook do not have to respect your privacy if you're in the USA; they are not charging you a penny to use their free services and in return you have agreed to their terms of service. The only point I will agree with you on is spelling out how they use your data (in the broadest sense) since people are apparently to stupid to understand that these companies have operating costs to pay for let alone supporting a stock price and yet charge nothing... gee I wonder what they are doing with your activity and personal data in order to pay for themselves?
I am usually pretty leftist on most of these issues, however in this case to many people think because they can access a website they have absolute right to use it without any terms or conditions. If you want to have a discussion about how long they may keep your data and how they use it after you terminate your account with them, now that is a totally different discussion. I would argue upon termination anonymous usage information can be used indefinitely, they can keep identifiable information for a period of one year but not use it in any active financial activity and must erase it after one year.
It would also be in the interest of Google and Facebook to provide a subscription tier to their operating model which includes a restrictive usage of your data model.
That would be true if A) they enforced their own rules equally
They are free to enforce their rules anyway they wish to, you agreed to their terms of service when you signed up to use it. If they have a complicated censorship mechanism they owe you zero explanation of it and it is their choice if they wish to incur public outrage by not disclosing it or enforcing it in a negative way.
B) if they were responsible for the content posted on their platform (hint: they're not, otherwise they'd be shut down the moment someone posted child pornography there)
Who says they are not responsible? Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA).
It's more like your phone company cutting off your phone line because they were listening in and didn't like what you were saying.
It is absolutely nothing like your phone company! They are not providing you connectivity to the internet, they provide a platform you can interact with if you agree to their terms of service. You are NOT paying for it and there are other tools online available to you to use or you can create your own and negotiate with the very same phone companies to provide priority QOS on their networks.
You are not entitled to use it, you are invited to use it - shit, the outrage over this "censorship" of Alex Jones whose own site has the same damn terms of service criteria is stupid.
The entire island was running around in terror with nowhere to go for over half an hour before these schlocks finally managed to say "oops, just kidding."
Perhaps the silver lining here is in your quoted statement.
I'd relish a change - jobs like ours is very boring and monotonous and being required to learn something new and the having the luxury of learning on the job would thrill me to death.
And folks need to remember that aside from the fact that those folks aren't keeping up - it's now a performance issue - the EEOC is very easy to get around. And I once heard of someone who actually won an EEOC suite. They got a whole $50K to split with their lawyer - after 7 years of court battles.
Old farts like the above give us other old farts a bad name. Soylent Green them.
Where are the performance reviews? Where are their failures to improve their poor performance? If they are changing their job title or job description (from Windows techs to Linux/MAC), what notification were they given? What training was offered? Did they refuse?
You say EEOC's are easy to get around? That all depends on the environment; were there other job description changes in IT? What about the organization? How were those handled? Are there company policies about forced job change on an employee? Were those followed? Was there a precedent set prior to these two employees? All actionable items in a lawsuit. Is this an At-Will Employment State?
Yes, there are some bad old timers out there, but your comment makes a lot of assumptions without background on these two nor the local labor laws. If there is a new IT Manager in town one has to ask the question what happened to the old IT Managers? What was their approach?
Firstly the new IT Manager has to get clear the following:
1) Build a list of skills their jobs require and checkbox the skills they have.
2) Identify priority skills they do not have based on the current needs of the IT Department (i.e. fires not being put out or SLA's slipping due to not enough qualified people).
3) Identify if a training budget / time that is available. Target training on these skills. Whether it is simple web based training programs (pluralsight, udemy etc), internal training sessions hosted by an experienced employee.
4) Working with their HR department (if there is one) and higher-end IT management, work out the legal approach that needs to be taken to inform these employees they need to retrain with new skills. If they refuse? What options does the manager have?
From personal experience: We had a lot of layoffs in our IT department during the last two years. As a developer I picked up a lot of additional sysadmin duties. Fortunately I was a former sysadmin for eight years of my career before I spent the last 12 working as a developer so I still had an idea of how to ask "what have I forgotten or do not know?" in an informed manner. We analyzed our ticket system to determine what work was the prior employees performing (this system contained support and project based changes)? Where were my short-comings and was this something I could easily learn in a hurry or was a more formalized training required in order to avoid "learning curve mistakes"? (turns out both were useful).
Squeaky wheel approach (i.e. put out the fires) is an immediate training option, but you still need to determine long term support needs and what are the projects that are upcoming and what skills do these two need (if they are being selected for them) to progress during these projects.
As I said in #4 you need to work with your HR / Management, but having a logical list for skills and timelines these need learned by is a great approach.
Case in point: working on a current project where the project manager thinks he can dictate the solution such as the business requirements, functional requirements and technical specifications. I have told him more than once to stop defining a solution to a problem, stop offering technical advice and STOP talking to the business about the tech.
This dudes project plan was illogical, it was not consistent with any kind of BA, requirements building, development or testing. The build task consisted of a single entry with no drill down to the high-level tasks (ten high-level development tasks, where four had pre-req's of the others being complete). The Project Plan should not cover the implementation of these tasks, but being able to track the development at the project level was pretty important.
The project team except for the PM agreed with everything I said; the QA team's constant complaint was that there was no way to plan for their testing because there was no break down, no ability to plan testing around build task completion. No time built in for testing scenario review between BA, Developer and QA. Somehow magically QA was supposed to get it perfect first try with no other input.
The issue with this guy is he looks at the "manager" part and thinks we all work for him and that he is some kind of God of everything which is the exact opposite to what he is. He is a coordinator, he is there to help make sure the different teams work effectively together and based on our needs to put together a project plan facilitates planning and tracking of the different teams responsibilities.
Open-source software is also more secure than closed-source software, by its very nature: the code is perpetually scrutinized by countless users across the planet, and any weaknesses are shared immediately.
Remember it wasn't that long ago when all you had to do was hit Backspace 28 times and you could bypass login security on almost all Linux distros....
Exactly! Open Source is only as good as the company that wants to keep up with patching and devote resources for regression testing. These days that is very few (unfortunately).
Apparently I am a stereotype - almost 39 here and I am looking to farming. I am starting to slowly put the business plan together and exit strategy from my current career. My wife knows what I want to do, she is mostly on board - she understand it is not simply going to be quit and become a farmer and it is going to be a process.
Could it be that "young" men just saw the prior generation(s) go through massive lay off's, lost their houses, their life savings and decided, "screw this, if the reward can be taken away like that, why the F should I work so hard?"
Really IMHO American corporations have themselves to blame for this. They have done a very good job of removing any kind of job security, chased profits for the sake of chasing profits, off-shored, out-sourced, missed en masse why claiming it was "necessary". Yeah I get it.
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And apparently they get left in classrooms too.
The Florida situation is a perfect example of how useless they are as the only way to make sure that ballot box was not tampered with would be to manually verify each vote with the "person" that cast it and verify its accuracy. Of course, you also have to verify that the person you are contacting IS is eligible to vote and is not trying to commit identity theft / election fraud.
Yup, never going to happen and just another way for people to try and cheat and game the system or be tricked in to thinking they can vote at the last minute and still get their voice heard, thereby reinforcing a poor state of personal responsibility to get registered AND to vote.
So that whale sound I kept hearing last year was not my father in law rolling out of bed?
Violence is a great response to conflicting ideas. Plus, being a tough guy on the Internet definitely helps your argument, and won't get you mocked at all.
Never post here again.
At least there is one person here that gets it ;)
Regulate them as carriers? Sure, that's an interesting discussion, and the conclusion isn't obvious. But break them up? On what basis other than envy?
Really the only basis is anti competitive practices with their hardware platforms or software services. If there are contracts that force customers, partners or vendors to only use big tech company A's products, then sure antitrust issue there especially if the market intrusion is significant. I suspect this has more to do with the free speech argument floating around; aka political pages, channels and media creators being banned because of TOS violations and then their supporters crying a violation of free speech, so politicians start to cry antitrust. And now we have the supreme court about to hear a case of whether freedom of speech applies with private corporations, so antitrust could balloon in to constitutional violation arguments. There is some irony here... but not on topic.
You can't own a tank with a working cannon on it, although you can own a tank. You aren't allowed to make explosives without a license. You can't transfer a fully automatic weapon without going through a lot of paperwork and clearances -- which is a policy initiated by Reagan.
Pay the fee and pass the background check (i.e. register your cannon shells!). I have a friend that shoots off civil war era cannons every fourth of July and it is freaking awesome to watch. He also is under intense scrutiny from the ATF and other federal agencies because of this and probably the 1,500 odd guns he owns (yup he is a collector).
You have a vivid and rather vulgar imagination. What is making you so angry?
Angry? Not at all, mocking basement dwellers like you I find entertaining. Now go dribble in to a sock.
News for nerds, talkin bout dicks
And apparently shooting people in the head... but hey, let's ignore that part eh?
Lmao! Always sooooo funny when an anonymous person using a fake name such as Tesin tries to de-legitimize other anonymous people... FOR ALSO BEING ANONYMOUS!!
You we-hate-AC types are so stupid you are impervious to your own hypocrisy.
Ah yes, my pseudonym is at least tied to an enduring account - whereas you post from as an AC, complaining about my apparent "hypocrisy". Also it is Tesen, not Tesin.
Sometimes I do wish Trump was an autocrat and I was in his employ. Then I could hunt down fuckers like you and put a bullet through your brain just for being a Supreme Asshole.
But alas, your stupid imaginary world of Trump the dictator is more fake than these Global Warming scares.
Spoken like the cowardly right winger posting from an anonymous account, one hand on a small weapon the other on his keyboard.The only thing you shoot and by that I mean dribble, is in to a sock.
In addition, the tangled web of information selling to third parties adds a level of complexity to what I said obviously which is a totally different discussion.
You notice how some of the worst people in the world are now using Trump's antics to excuse the most dishonest and despicable behavior?
Yes indeed. I mean really making Google and Facebook respect your privacy or at the very least spell out how your data is used. Imagine the cheek.
Google and Facebook do not have to respect your privacy if you're in the USA; they are not charging you a penny to use their free services and in return you have agreed to their terms of service. The only point I will agree with you on is spelling out how they use your data (in the broadest sense) since people are apparently to stupid to understand that these companies have operating costs to pay for let alone supporting a stock price and yet charge nothing... gee I wonder what they are doing with your activity and personal data in order to pay for themselves?
I am usually pretty leftist on most of these issues, however in this case to many people think because they can access a website they have absolute right to use it without any terms or conditions. If you want to have a discussion about how long they may keep your data and how they use it after you terminate your account with them, now that is a totally different discussion. I would argue upon termination anonymous usage information can be used indefinitely, they can keep identifiable information for a period of one year but not use it in any active financial activity and must erase it after one year.
It would also be in the interest of Google and Facebook to provide a subscription tier to their operating model which includes a restrictive usage of your data model.
That would be true if A) they enforced their own rules equally
They are free to enforce their rules anyway they wish to, you agreed to their terms of service when you signed up to use it. If they have a complicated censorship mechanism they owe you zero explanation of it and it is their choice if they wish to incur public outrage by not disclosing it or enforcing it in a negative way.
B) if they were responsible for the content posted on their platform (hint: they're not, otherwise they'd be shut down the moment someone posted child pornography there)
Who says they are not responsible? Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA).
It's more like your phone company cutting off your phone line because they were listening in and didn't like what you were saying.
It is absolutely nothing like your phone company! They are not providing you connectivity to the internet, they provide a platform you can interact with if you agree to their terms of service. You are NOT paying for it and there are other tools online available to you to use or you can create your own and negotiate with the very same phone companies to provide priority QOS on their networks.
You are not entitled to use it, you are invited to use it - shit, the outrage over this "censorship" of Alex Jones whose own site has the same damn terms of service criteria is stupid.
I see your dealer made out tonight...
The entire island was running around in terror with nowhere to go for over half an hour before these schlocks finally managed to say "oops, just kidding."
Perhaps the silver lining here is in your quoted statement.
I'd relish a change - jobs like ours is very boring and monotonous and being required to learn something new and the having the luxury of learning on the job would thrill me to death.
And folks need to remember that aside from the fact that those folks aren't keeping up - it's now a performance issue - the EEOC is very easy to get around. And I once heard of someone who actually won an EEOC suite. They got a whole $50K to split with their lawyer - after 7 years of court battles.
Old farts like the above give us other old farts a bad name. Soylent Green them.
Where are the performance reviews? Where are their failures to improve their poor performance? If they are changing their job title or job description (from Windows techs to Linux/MAC), what notification were they given? What training was offered? Did they refuse?
You say EEOC's are easy to get around? That all depends on the environment; were there other job description changes in IT? What about the organization? How were those handled? Are there company policies about forced job change on an employee? Were those followed? Was there a precedent set prior to these two employees? All actionable items in a lawsuit. Is this an At-Will Employment State?
Yes, there are some bad old timers out there, but your comment makes a lot of assumptions without background on these two nor the local labor laws. If there is a new IT Manager in town one has to ask the question what happened to the old IT Managers? What was their approach?
Firstly the new IT Manager has to get clear the following:
1) Build a list of skills their jobs require and checkbox the skills they have.
2) Identify priority skills they do not have based on the current needs of the IT Department (i.e. fires not being put out or SLA's slipping due to not enough qualified people).
3) Identify if a training budget / time that is available. Target training on these skills. Whether it is simple web based training programs (pluralsight, udemy etc), internal training sessions hosted by an experienced employee.
4) Working with their HR department (if there is one) and higher-end IT management, work out the legal approach that needs to be taken to inform these employees they need to retrain with new skills. If they refuse? What options does the manager have?
From personal experience: We had a lot of layoffs in our IT department during the last two years. As a developer I picked up a lot of additional sysadmin duties. Fortunately I was a former sysadmin for eight years of my career before I spent the last 12 working as a developer so I still had an idea of how to ask "what have I forgotten or do not know?" in an informed manner. We analyzed our ticket system to determine what work was the prior employees performing (this system contained support and project based changes)? Where were my short-comings and was this something I could easily learn in a hurry or was a more formalized training required in order to avoid "learning curve mistakes"? (turns out both were useful).
Squeaky wheel approach (i.e. put out the fires) is an immediate training option, but you still need to determine long term support needs and what are the projects that are upcoming and what skills do these two need (if they are being selected for them) to progress during these projects.
As I said in #4 you need to work with your HR / Management, but having a logical list for skills and timelines these need learned by is a great approach.
The hard on we have for NK does not work unless China goes full ex-mistress on them. Everything Trump is doing so far is just about ego masturbating.
In case you didn't know Kim Jong Un is fat. He doesn't get that way by eating carrots.
I beg to differ. You add a tub of ranch to that...
I'm not calling for military action, this just seems overly strange/irresponsible from both sides.
Surely there's something I'm missing out of all this? Surely?!
So continue with the sanctions then?
Case in point: working on a current project where the project manager thinks he can dictate the solution such as the business requirements, functional requirements and technical specifications. I have told him more than once to stop defining a solution to a problem, stop offering technical advice and STOP talking to the business about the tech.
This dudes project plan was illogical, it was not consistent with any kind of BA, requirements building, development or testing. The build task consisted of a single entry with no drill down to the high-level tasks (ten high-level development tasks, where four had pre-req's of the others being complete). The Project Plan should not cover the implementation of these tasks, but being able to track the development at the project level was pretty important.
The project team except for the PM agreed with everything I said; the QA team's constant complaint was that there was no way to plan for their testing because there was no break down, no ability to plan testing around build task completion. No time built in for testing scenario review between BA, Developer and QA. Somehow magically QA was supposed to get it perfect first try with no other input.
The issue with this guy is he looks at the "manager" part and thinks we all work for him and that he is some kind of God of everything which is the exact opposite to what he is. He is a coordinator, he is there to help make sure the different teams work effectively together and based on our needs to put together a project plan facilitates planning and tracking of the different teams responsibilities.
Open-source software is also more secure than closed-source software, by its very nature: the code is perpetually scrutinized by countless users across the planet, and any weaknesses are shared immediately.
Remember it wasn't that long ago when all you had to do was hit Backspace 28 times and you could bypass login security on almost all Linux distros....
Exactly! Open Source is only as good as the company that wants to keep up with patching and devote resources for regression testing. These days that is very few (unfortunately).
Apparently I am a stereotype - almost 39 here and I am looking to farming. I am starting to slowly put the business plan together and exit strategy from my current career. My wife knows what I want to do, she is mostly on board - she understand it is not simply going to be quit and become a farmer and it is going to be a process.
I just started looking at getting in to farming (real farming) with the eventual departure from software engineering... holy crap.
Bannon... is that you?!?!
*dismissed en masse
Could it be that "young" men just saw the prior generation(s) go through massive lay off's, lost their houses, their life savings and decided, "screw this, if the reward can be taken away like that, why the F should I work so hard?"
Really IMHO American corporations have themselves to blame for this. They have done a very good job of removing any kind of job security, chased profits for the sake of chasing profits, off-shored, out-sourced, missed en masse why claiming it was "necessary". Yeah I get it.