If you look at the first comment in TFA it turns out that the poster was using a consumer account for a million-dollar mission critical application:
I highly recommend establishing an enterprise relationship with Google Cloud. It seems you are running a mission critical application on a consumer account and this issue could have been avoided. Reach out to the support team and let them know you want to discuss enterprise options to ensure you have done everything possible to ensure your account is never impacted like this in the future. Ping me if you have any trouble getting through. - Mike Kahn Customer Engineer, Google Cloud. All views and opinions are my own. @mkahn5
40 hour work weeks, enforced. 30 days paid vacation per year, plus holidays and weekends.
Par for the course in the UK.
If you work overtime one week, you get those hours back the next week.
Not par for the course, but it's pretty common the you will get it back sometime. A busy period coming up to a deadline could cover a few weeks.
Everyone gets two days off in a row every week.
.. usually happens
If you give up those days for some special reason, you get comp vacation time to be used within the next month.
You would usually get this, but may have to wait until the peak is over before taking the time back. Alternatively you could be paid - time and a half is quite common
Everyone takes all their vacation, every year.
In the UK it's exceptional for anyone not to take all their time. A company I worked for switched the "holiday year" from a fixed January-December to a year based on when you joined to prevent a large number of people being off at the end of the year to use their entitlement,
By using OpenBSD you have already opted in to using the most secure code possible, even at a performance cost. They say:
OpenBSD believes in strong security. Our aspiration is to be NUMBER ONE in the industry for security (if we are not already there). Our open software development model permits us to take a more uncompromising view towards increased security than most vendors are able to. We can make changes the vendors would not make. Also, since OpenBSD is exported with cryptography, we are able to take cryptographic approaches towards fixing security problems.
Also if everyone had to walk round carrying a placard with their real name and address, this would cut down on real life antisocial behaviour. I imagine he has this lined up for phase two
With the way things are going on Slashdot lately, I'm sure we can expect a few replies to be "it's Trump's fault" or some other political bullshit.
The thing is we don't even have an indication. It might have increased more under Trump, or it might have decreased - the "rise since 1999" tells us nothing.
It would be nice to see a year by year increase. "Since 1999" makes it hard to see the reason. Did it improve in some years and get worse in others? If so what policy changes may have caused this
Hell, they will sell the lab diamonds at a loss in order to maintain profits in the real ones. Monopoly abuse to be sure, but that hasn't stopped them yet!
Yes, I think you are right. I think the plan is to market them very cheap with advertising slogans as above: "Lab grown diamonds are not special, they're not real, they're not unique". They want the public to associate them with costume jewellery, not mined diamonds - and not to realise that you can have a bigger and purer diamond for less.
This is starting to look a lot like something that America is doing in its embassies, at least in "non-allied" countries. Maybe some leakage from something aimed at the host country's infrastructure
People always fear dangers that they can't control more than ones they can. This is why some people fear plane and train crashes more than car crashes, even though cars are statistically a lot more dangerous. A self-driving car will have to have a much better accident rate than human ones. It's easy for people to say "that's average but I am much better than average" if they are in control.
Whose basic human rights will it choose to respect? The right of the crazies to be free, or the right of the minorities to be treated as human beings and live in peace?
In true science fiction AI manner it will conclude that the only way to reconcile this dilemma is to destroy the lot of them.
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With its giant plugs no AC adapter is too big to fit nicely in UK sockets...
Not quite - I have one adapter that is so large that it obscures two UK sockets
This sounds like asking fro trouble to me!
40 hour work weeks, enforced. 30 days paid vacation per year, plus holidays and weekends.
Par for the course in the UK.
If you work overtime one week, you get those hours back the next week.
Not par for the course, but it's pretty common the you will get it back sometime. A busy period coming up to a deadline could cover a few weeks.
Everyone gets two days off in a row every week.
.. usually happens
If you give up those days for some special reason, you get comp vacation time to be used within the next month.
You would usually get this, but may have to wait until the peak is over before taking the time back. Alternatively you could be paid - time and a half is quite common
Everyone takes all their vacation, every year.
In the UK it's exceptional for anyone not to take all their time. A company I worked for switched the "holiday year" from a fixed January-December to a year based on when you joined to prevent a large number of people being off at the end of the year to use their entitlement,
Yes much cleaner and more efficient processors could be designed now, but getting everyone to switch is not going to happen soon.
Well, as the saying goes if you pay peanuts you will get monkeys..
The muzzies have got a hand in it
Some old journalistic hack!
Change your name to Zebamrulator and you can get the first name email wherever you go
Also if everyone had to walk round carrying a placard with their real name and address, this would cut down on real life antisocial behaviour. I imagine he has this lined up for phase two
With the way things are going on Slashdot lately, I'm sure we can expect a few replies to be "it's Trump's fault" or some other political bullshit.
The thing is we don't even have an indication. It might have increased more under Trump, or it might have decreased - the "rise since 1999" tells us nothing.
It would be nice to see a year by year increase. "Since 1999" makes it hard to see the reason. Did it improve in some years and get worse in others? If so what policy changes may have caused this
They only definitively show that the laws of physics stayed constant over the 14 years of the experiment.
What if there were two changes which canceleld out in the measured effect?
President's Most Senior Technology Advisor Says the White House is Quietly Pursuing an Aggressive AI Plan
Translation: Trump threw a PC at an intern.
It's like the Muslims stealing the Hagia Sophia
Looking at my retirement funds, I'm certainly hoping I die in my sleep at age 78. Or maybe 75. I just can't be sure.
You're one of the lucky ones, many people wonder if they will be able to retire by the age of 75 or 78
So that's what's been going on in the US embasies
Hell, they will sell the lab diamonds at a loss in order to maintain profits in the real ones. Monopoly abuse to be sure, but that hasn't stopped them yet!
Yes, I think you are right. I think the plan is to market them very cheap with advertising slogans as above: "Lab grown diamonds are not special, they're not real, they're not unique". They want the public to associate them with costume jewellery, not mined diamonds - and not to realise that you can have a bigger and purer diamond for less.
Someone in the NSA is booking time on their secret quantum computer!
But studies show that on many occasions women don't know what they are talking about.
Should we consider the many men who say many thing that are nothing but bullshit?
And the bulls who say nothing but manshit.
This is starting to look a lot like something that America is doing in its embassies, at least in "non-allied" countries. Maybe some leakage from something aimed at the host country's infrastructure
People always fear dangers that they can't control more than ones they can. This is why some people fear plane and train crashes more than car crashes, even though cars are statistically a lot more dangerous. A self-driving car will have to have a much better accident rate than human ones. It's easy for people to say "that's average but I am much better than average" if they are in control.
What's good enough for the goose is good enough for the gander
Helps the poor get to jobs and helps the environment
Whose basic human rights will it choose to respect? The right of the crazies to be free, or the right of the minorities to be treated as human beings and live in peace?
In true science fiction AI manner it will conclude that the only way to reconcile this dilemma is to destroy the lot of them.