To be honest, when I started reading about that I became quite happy that I no longer fly. I'm not concerned with controllers purposely doing a half assed job, I just know what it's like to work the same job even as the resources to do it get cut and mistakes are more or less inevitable when that happens.
The amount of work and the standards don't necessarily decrease just because the funding does.
It's illegal to work off the clock around here, and with good reason. If they don't pay you file a complaint with the relevant agency and get your money, or at least a lien or some other guarantee of being paid. Working for free is really, really bad and it shows a certain lack of respect for your time and the well being of workers in general.
I'd venture that it's not common enough to represent a problem. Around here the best solution in most cases to regulating temperature in homes is to close all the windows and draw the drapes during the day and open all the windows at night.
It' abnormal for us to have a low that's high enough to screw up that system. And it works for most folks. Vulnerable people do still need AC though.
Traditionally the way that's handled is with separate user accounts. If folks aren't willing to do that, I'm not sure how the computer is supposed to know which accounts to access.
I take it you haven't actually met MS' core demographic group. People that are too stupid to be able to handle computers and too stupid to be able to switch to OSX.
This will probably last until a rape burglar starts targeting Facebook users and they're backed into the corner of allowing pseudonyms as a matter of policy.
You can't have privacy without anonymity. If you can't do certain things anonymously then you really can't claim to have privacy. In real life the distinction isn't as obvious, but online you literally can't have privacy without anonymity ever.
Right now? I've been happy that I don't have a FB account for years. My main concern is that by not having a FB account I don't even get that level of privacy protection as they don't prevent people from putting photos of people up without permission.
These are arrest records, the problem is that in the US a person's reputation is toast well before the trial begins. Good luck repairing your reputation if you're ever arrested for possession of child porn even if the evidence is complete bunk and you're acquitted you might never recover your good name as chances are the press will have spread it all over the country by the time the trial actually occurs.
Sometimes there does need to be some restrictions on the press because the press isn't always capable of behaving in an ethical fashion. There's information that the public definitely doesn't have a right to know and the media really doesn't respect those rights when it's inconvenient, whether or not the public has a genuine right to know.
As much as I like BSD and use Linux, it's not inherently anymore secure in that respect. Somebody does still need to go through the code and audit it. And not just one somebody, really a whole team of somebodies doing it regularly.
In practice though, I've never worried about software that I install in that respect because I have means of securing the system beyond just trusting my sources.
It does work, the problem is that you have to really secure the applications not kinda sorta secure them. And in practice folks rarely manage to secure them enough to remove the profit motive from breaking in.
Yes, but the more vulnerabilities there are the quicker it is that an attacker is going to find it and the more kits that can root the system. Sure one vulnerability is enough, but the fewer there are the more they're going to need to want that particular machine to actually finish up.
No, they didn't. If you've read those particular emails they are hardly clear that the intention is to not pay anything at all.
The current price of this placement is at 0% rev share for that one day you are placed.
This is not what I would consider unambiguous language. It's clearly some sort of a mistake and worded in such a way that I have no particular way of knowing what the payment would be.
And until the company is required to pay for an attorney to review the contract that's how it's going to be. I don't have the money to have an attorney review every ToS I come in contact with nor do I have the requisite legal understanding to really know whether or not it's enforceable and what it really means.
It's high time that somebody stepped in and mandated the language represent the level of understanding that can be expected of the target group.
But what's the power consumption on that? Arduino became popular not just because of the cost, but because of the power consumption and ease of use as well. $120 for something that includes all sorts of stuff that I might not need is hardly a good deal.
The irony there is that the Zune was a much better device than the Apple iPods of the time. It was poorly marketed, and ugly. But technologically it was better than what Apple was doing at the time.
Around here Comcast is basically the same speed as Qwest is, the main difference is that they have that boosting technology that lets them borrow bandwidth from the loop when congestion is low.
Unfortunately, neither company is particularly interested in doing anything about it and Qwest has flat out stated that they won't be upgrading capacity in several Seattle neighborhoods leaving them with a connection of 1.5mbps max or comcast.
The problem is that it's dishonest and misleading if you never receive the stated bandwidth. If they're going to play that game, then why not just have everybody advertising as having up to 100 kagillion gigabits per second? The reason is that up to requires that at some point during the month you're receiving that connection or have a reasonable chance of receiving it. If they can't provide the connection of that speed then they're not really providing a connection that's up to that speed.
On a side note, I'm not surprised that Qwest is more or less at the bottom of the pile. 80% seems a bit generous. But I do tolerate it because there are no data caps and the alternative would be Comcast. It is somewhat reassuring that Century Link actually does a better job so hopefully we'll get a better connection in the near future.
Not really, you just do it the next time MS releases a new office suite. If you're going to have to pay for training and licenses anyways, you may as well not pay for the licenses and just pay for the training that you'd already had to pay for.
Competent FOSS projects don't reinvent the UI to a significant degree for the hell of it, more often it's just minor tweaks for things that weren't working well. Things which could be readily handled in a 15minute or shorter meeting.
If you're smart enough to use something other than Ubuntu, the change in UI is less significant than the change is in Windows UI.
Just look at how much IE, MS Office and Windows have changed their UI over the last 10 years or so. The fact that they have to train folks to handle newer versions speaks volumes for the lack of consistency over the years. I mean ribbon WTF.
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They did, but the mention was near the end of the summary which probably wasn't the wisest choice of placement.
To be honest, when I started reading about that I became quite happy that I no longer fly. I'm not concerned with controllers purposely doing a half assed job, I just know what it's like to work the same job even as the resources to do it get cut and mistakes are more or less inevitable when that happens.
The amount of work and the standards don't necessarily decrease just because the funding does.
It's illegal to work off the clock around here, and with good reason. If they don't pay you file a complaint with the relevant agency and get your money, or at least a lien or some other guarantee of being paid. Working for free is really, really bad and it shows a certain lack of respect for your time and the well being of workers in general.
I'd venture that it's not common enough to represent a problem. Around here the best solution in most cases to regulating temperature in homes is to close all the windows and draw the drapes during the day and open all the windows at night.
It' abnormal for us to have a low that's high enough to screw up that system. And it works for most folks. Vulnerable people do still need AC though.
Traditionally the way that's handled is with separate user accounts. If folks aren't willing to do that, I'm not sure how the computer is supposed to know which accounts to access.
You obviously don't use Rubik's browser.
I take it you haven't actually met MS' core demographic group. People that are too stupid to be able to handle computers and too stupid to be able to switch to OSX.
This will probably last until a rape burglar starts targeting Facebook users and they're backed into the corner of allowing pseudonyms as a matter of policy.
You can't have privacy without anonymity. If you can't do certain things anonymously then you really can't claim to have privacy. In real life the distinction isn't as obvious, but online you literally can't have privacy without anonymity ever.
Right now? I've been happy that I don't have a FB account for years. My main concern is that by not having a FB account I don't even get that level of privacy protection as they don't prevent people from putting photos of people up without permission.
These are arrest records, the problem is that in the US a person's reputation is toast well before the trial begins. Good luck repairing your reputation if you're ever arrested for possession of child porn even if the evidence is complete bunk and you're acquitted you might never recover your good name as chances are the press will have spread it all over the country by the time the trial actually occurs.
Sometimes there does need to be some restrictions on the press because the press isn't always capable of behaving in an ethical fashion. There's information that the public definitely doesn't have a right to know and the media really doesn't respect those rights when it's inconvenient, whether or not the public has a genuine right to know.
As much as I like BSD and use Linux, it's not inherently anymore secure in that respect. Somebody does still need to go through the code and audit it. And not just one somebody, really a whole team of somebodies doing it regularly.
In practice though, I've never worried about software that I install in that respect because I have means of securing the system beyond just trusting my sources.
It does work, the problem is that you have to really secure the applications not kinda sorta secure them. And in practice folks rarely manage to secure them enough to remove the profit motive from breaking in.
Yes, but the more vulnerabilities there are the quicker it is that an attacker is going to find it and the more kits that can root the system. Sure one vulnerability is enough, but the fewer there are the more they're going to need to want that particular machine to actually finish up.
False advertisement.
I did, and it's still bullshit. They're advertising a service which they have no intention of providing.
No, they didn't. If you've read those particular emails they are hardly clear that the intention is to not pay anything at all.
The current price of this placement is at 0% rev share for that one day you are placed.
This is not what I would consider unambiguous language. It's clearly some sort of a mistake and worded in such a way that I have no particular way of knowing what the payment would be.
And until the company is required to pay for an attorney to review the contract that's how it's going to be. I don't have the money to have an attorney review every ToS I come in contact with nor do I have the requisite legal understanding to really know whether or not it's enforceable and what it really means.
It's high time that somebody stepped in and mandated the language represent the level of understanding that can be expected of the target group.
But what's the power consumption on that? Arduino became popular not just because of the cost, but because of the power consumption and ease of use as well. $120 for something that includes all sorts of stuff that I might not need is hardly a good deal.
The irony there is that the Zune was a much better device than the Apple iPods of the time. It was poorly marketed, and ugly. But technologically it was better than what Apple was doing at the time.
Around here Comcast is basically the same speed as Qwest is, the main difference is that they have that boosting technology that lets them borrow bandwidth from the loop when congestion is low.
Unfortunately, neither company is particularly interested in doing anything about it and Qwest has flat out stated that they won't be upgrading capacity in several Seattle neighborhoods leaving them with a connection of 1.5mbps max or comcast.
The problem is that it's dishonest and misleading if you never receive the stated bandwidth. If they're going to play that game, then why not just have everybody advertising as having up to 100 kagillion gigabits per second? The reason is that up to requires that at some point during the month you're receiving that connection or have a reasonable chance of receiving it. If they can't provide the connection of that speed then they're not really providing a connection that's up to that speed.
On a side note, I'm not surprised that Qwest is more or less at the bottom of the pile. 80% seems a bit generous. But I do tolerate it because there are no data caps and the alternative would be Comcast. It is somewhat reassuring that Century Link actually does a better job so hopefully we'll get a better connection in the near future.
Not really, you just do it the next time MS releases a new office suite. If you're going to have to pay for training and licenses anyways, you may as well not pay for the licenses and just pay for the training that you'd already had to pay for.
Competent FOSS projects don't reinvent the UI to a significant degree for the hell of it, more often it's just minor tweaks for things that weren't working well. Things which could be readily handled in a 15minute or shorter meeting.
If you're smart enough to use something other than Ubuntu, the change in UI is less significant than the change is in Windows UI.
Just look at how much IE, MS Office and Windows have changed their UI over the last 10 years or so. The fact that they have to train folks to handle newer versions speaks volumes for the lack of consistency over the years. I mean ribbon WTF.
The amount of money that goes there is only a fraction of what ends up going to rich investors.