Why the hell not, employers steal from the employees all the time. If the labor market hadn't become so distorted by corporate trickery it would be a completely different matter. Good luck getting anybody to care if your employer is stealing out of your paycheck or making you work off the clock.
I have genuine sympathy for employers that make a good faith attempt at following the laws and engaging in fair play, but there's a huge amount of pressure created by Wall Street to cut corners and do things which are harmful to the employees, whether or not there's a business justifications for doing it.
You don't inspire employee loyalty or productivity by making it tough for employees to survive on their salary alone.
That's because successful psychopaths go into business and become CEOs, whereas unsuccessful psychopaths end up being busted for things like this.
But in general, crime really doesn't pay as well as people think. Some crimes do, but most crimes aren't particularly lucrative. Bank robbery for instance would require a heist every month just to make ends meet. And that's assuming that things went successfully. The average bank robber makes very little money on each robbery. Banks got wise to it a long time ago and rarely if ever is there enough money available to the tellers to even consider it worthwhile.
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up. One of the things I've noticed is that you can often walk out of a store through a beeping loss control device, by behaving as if it isn't going off. Also certain shops with those detectors have ones that malfunction and the staff tends to ignore it. It's probably because store staff don't have arresting power in misdemeanor theft around here.
It applies to most things, if you don't want somebody executing a felony arrest warrant on you, the easiest way to avoid that is by not driving like an idiot. It's not fool proof, but it's the most common way for those arrest warrants to lead to an arrest.
Indeed, while WPA1 was cracked, it's not completely cracked and the utility is pretty minimal for those that want to abuse it. I think that getting things like WPS to work right and be supported across platforms would likely go along ways.
WPS in my experience tends to be hit or miss, I don't think that any of my hardware actually supports it, apart from one of the access points I had. Unfortunately, things like my Wii and PS3 don't seem to support it, which is a shame given that when done properly it's both more convenient and more secure that counting on the ability to type in a pass phrase with a controller.
I disagree, the point is that they could do it, not that they are doing it. If you leave your connection open, then they could do it and you'd ultimately be the one that's getting investigated by the FBI.
Sure it's not common practice, but that's not to say that it doesn't or couldn't happen, it's still a risk and really a stupid one to take.
If you want it to be open for visitors and whoever else wants in, there's solutions for that. Open mesh includes the possibility, although at this point, they don't seem to allow a proper way of securing it other than just putting in a long passphrase of gibberish and not telling people what it is.
I disagree. It's not very easy to get the glasses to sync up correctly and reliably. If you do it wrong you get complaints about headaches. And the technology is prone to that in the first place.
OTOH adding the 3D which uses filters is much cheaper, with the only cost being that you really need to increase the amount of light so that you've got enough after some of it gets filtered out.
Were ATSC tuner equipped CRTs ever particularly common? Because I remember the CRT TVs disappearing about the time that the retailers stopped selling the analog tuning TVs.
Does it? I'd imagine that a 3D TV would include a pair. So, if the measure is 3D glasses being sold, that would probably mean that only one person is using TV at a time.
That's one of the reasons, the other being that it's more computationally intensive to max out the number of decimal places you can handle. On top of that you end up mixing up decimal places of precision.
In practice the amount you come out even, on some transactions you end up being a bit ahead and others you lose a bit, but it tends to come out pretty even. Or at least close enough that you'd be wasting more money trying to get that precision than by not bothering.
New Zealand did away with their penny, nickel and 2 cents, so the smallest amount of money you can pay precisely is in increments of 10 cents each.
I'm with you on that. I've seen the proof, but I don't really accept it. But at the same time I'm more than happy to accept my version of card counting which is significantly more complex and as yet not formally proven.
The reason why is that it's really, really hard to override what one considers to be common sense. Common sense isn't common sense because it's common, it's common sense because it's very low level and uses resources which are presumably common to everybody.
It's sort of like trying to convince everybody that the grass that they've seen every day of their life is rarely if ever green. As opposed to telling somebody that everybody has one eye that's slightly higher than the other.
The latter gets accepted quite quickly, whereas the former rarely does.
Humans are predominantly a herd animal. Most people want to do whatever other people are doing and it's really scary once you start to notice it. One of my friends used to volunteer for campaigns and one thing she'd be responsible for at times was starting the applause. Which meant being doing the first three or four claps that started everybody else clapping.
I wasn't there, but I have observed the phenomenon myself and I don't think that there's any way of looking at it which isn't terrifying.
The main reason is that we just have more boxes than any other country. But beyond that it's primarily and issue of ignorance in the people using the machines. Our users aren't the worst in that respect, but they could use a lot more education. I've personally not ever had any trouble, but then again, I run anti-malware protection and a sandbox and I'm mindful of where I go play.
I'm not sure that's true. In China they don't pay for licensed copies of Windows. It's been so bad that MS has had to introduce a cut cost version for the Chinese market. Makes me wonder why on Earth we have to pay the full cost when other nations get the same product for basically nothing.
For years before he stopped being CEO, Bill Gates was obsessed with getting the Chinese to pay for Windows.
Numbers that haven't been normalized are terribly uninformative. I'm sure that per 1000 isn't the best way of doing it, however it's a lot more useful than going with the gross number. Especially since the US is the 3rd largest nation by population behind India and China with Indonesia right behind us.
It would be almost impossible for us to ever be behind a nation like Switzerland which is substantially smaller than us, regardless of policies in place. Given that we've probably got more computers infected than they have computers period.
It's a bit better these days. If you don't put that 1 plus the area code before it and they consider it long distance, they tell you and refuse to place the call. One of my cousins got nailed back when they were first doing that. He was dialing local calls with the 1 and the area code, so they were billing it as if it were long distance.
Or, a limit which is agreed upon ahead of time. Presumably AT&T doesn't do credit checks to see that you are credit worthy up to several thousand dollars. Which makes me wonder on what basis they feel that allowing a user to rack up that kind of debt is sound.
In some parts of the world that's how it's done. In the US however, they get to bill on both ends. Which in some respects makes sense, as when you call from one network to another network both companies have expenses involved. But it does seem to me like there ought to be a better way of doing it.
Charging for the privilege of receiving texts on the other hand is complete and utter bullshit. They're charging you for the privilege of receiving a message that you may or may not want without a way of avoiding it. Well, apart from completely disabling text messaging. You can completely avoid paying for call time if you don't answer the phone.
While we're at it, why on Earth are we allowing them to charge us for the privilege of checking our voicemails on our cell phone?
Which is why organizations have to have a much more formal setting. I remember interviewing for a job quite a while ago, where they had a twiki page, specifically too keep track of that stuff. It was a rather large campus, but there was enough going on, that it would be impossible to keep track of things were it not for the twiki page and fastidious updates whenever something was added or changed.
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Why the hell not, employers steal from the employees all the time. If the labor market hadn't become so distorted by corporate trickery it would be a completely different matter. Good luck getting anybody to care if your employer is stealing out of your paycheck or making you work off the clock.
I have genuine sympathy for employers that make a good faith attempt at following the laws and engaging in fair play, but there's a huge amount of pressure created by Wall Street to cut corners and do things which are harmful to the employees, whether or not there's a business justifications for doing it.
You don't inspire employee loyalty or productivity by making it tough for employees to survive on their salary alone.
That's because successful psychopaths go into business and become CEOs, whereas unsuccessful psychopaths end up being busted for things like this.
But in general, crime really doesn't pay as well as people think. Some crimes do, but most crimes aren't particularly lucrative. Bank robbery for instance would require a heist every month just to make ends meet. And that's assuming that things went successfully. The average bank robber makes very little money on each robbery. Banks got wise to it a long time ago and rarely if ever is there enough money available to the tellers to even consider it worthwhile.
I'd recommend seeing a doctor, as I don't think that brown urine is normal.
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up. One of the things I've noticed is that you can often walk out of a store through a beeping loss control device, by behaving as if it isn't going off. Also certain shops with those detectors have ones that malfunction and the staff tends to ignore it. It's probably because store staff don't have arresting power in misdemeanor theft around here.
It applies to most things, if you don't want somebody executing a felony arrest warrant on you, the easiest way to avoid that is by not driving like an idiot. It's not fool proof, but it's the most common way for those arrest warrants to lead to an arrest.
Indeed, while WPA1 was cracked, it's not completely cracked and the utility is pretty minimal for those that want to abuse it. I think that getting things like WPS to work right and be supported across platforms would likely go along ways.
WPS in my experience tends to be hit or miss, I don't think that any of my hardware actually supports it, apart from one of the access points I had. Unfortunately, things like my Wii and PS3 don't seem to support it, which is a shame given that when done properly it's both more convenient and more secure that counting on the ability to type in a pass phrase with a controller.
I disagree, the point is that they could do it, not that they are doing it. If you leave your connection open, then they could do it and you'd ultimately be the one that's getting investigated by the FBI.
Sure it's not common practice, but that's not to say that it doesn't or couldn't happen, it's still a risk and really a stupid one to take.
If you want it to be open for visitors and whoever else wants in, there's solutions for that. Open mesh includes the possibility, although at this point, they don't seem to allow a proper way of securing it other than just putting in a long passphrase of gibberish and not telling people what it is.
I disagree. It's not very easy to get the glasses to sync up correctly and reliably. If you do it wrong you get complaints about headaches. And the technology is prone to that in the first place.
OTOH adding the 3D which uses filters is much cheaper, with the only cost being that you really need to increase the amount of light so that you've got enough after some of it gets filtered out.
Were ATSC tuner equipped CRTs ever particularly common? Because I remember the CRT TVs disappearing about the time that the retailers stopped selling the analog tuning TVs.
Does it? I'd imagine that a 3D TV would include a pair. So, if the measure is 3D glasses being sold, that would probably mean that only one person is using TV at a time.
That's one of the reasons, the other being that it's more computationally intensive to max out the number of decimal places you can handle. On top of that you end up mixing up decimal places of precision.
In practice the amount you come out even, on some transactions you end up being a bit ahead and others you lose a bit, but it tends to come out pretty even. Or at least close enough that you'd be wasting more money trying to get that precision than by not bothering.
New Zealand did away with their penny, nickel and 2 cents, so the smallest amount of money you can pay precisely is in increments of 10 cents each.
I'm with you on that. I've seen the proof, but I don't really accept it. But at the same time I'm more than happy to accept my version of card counting which is significantly more complex and as yet not formally proven.
The reason why is that it's really, really hard to override what one considers to be common sense. Common sense isn't common sense because it's common, it's common sense because it's very low level and uses resources which are presumably common to everybody.
It's sort of like trying to convince everybody that the grass that they've seen every day of their life is rarely if ever green. As opposed to telling somebody that everybody has one eye that's slightly higher than the other.
The latter gets accepted quite quickly, whereas the former rarely does.
Sure it is, I mean 0/0 = 1, right? I mean after all you can cancel a the numerator and denominator.
Humans are predominantly a herd animal. Most people want to do whatever other people are doing and it's really scary once you start to notice it. One of my friends used to volunteer for campaigns and one thing she'd be responsible for at times was starting the applause. Which meant being doing the first three or four claps that started everybody else clapping.
I wasn't there, but I have observed the phenomenon myself and I don't think that there's any way of looking at it which isn't terrifying.
The main reason is that we just have more boxes than any other country. But beyond that it's primarily and issue of ignorance in the people using the machines. Our users aren't the worst in that respect, but they could use a lot more education. I've personally not ever had any trouble, but then again, I run anti-malware protection and a sandbox and I'm mindful of where I go play.
Well, at least he's not fucking the pie. We can easily get more Jello, but god damn it, that pie was for dessert.
I'm not sure that's true. In China they don't pay for licensed copies of Windows. It's been so bad that MS has had to introduce a cut cost version for the Chinese market. Makes me wonder why on Earth we have to pay the full cost when other nations get the same product for basically nothing.
For years before he stopped being CEO, Bill Gates was obsessed with getting the Chinese to pay for Windows.
Numbers that haven't been normalized are terribly uninformative. I'm sure that per 1000 isn't the best way of doing it, however it's a lot more useful than going with the gross number. Especially since the US is the 3rd largest nation by population behind India and China with Indonesia right behind us.
It would be almost impossible for us to ever be behind a nation like Switzerland which is substantially smaller than us, regardless of policies in place. Given that we've probably got more computers infected than they have computers period.
At least they no longer charge you a fee for having a phone in a non-standard color or for having multiple phones.
It's a bit better these days. If you don't put that 1 plus the area code before it and they consider it long distance, they tell you and refuse to place the call. One of my cousins got nailed back when they were first doing that. He was dialing local calls with the 1 and the area code, so they were billing it as if it were long distance.
Or, a limit which is agreed upon ahead of time. Presumably AT&T doesn't do credit checks to see that you are credit worthy up to several thousand dollars. Which makes me wonder on what basis they feel that allowing a user to rack up that kind of debt is sound.
In some parts of the world that's how it's done. In the US however, they get to bill on both ends. Which in some respects makes sense, as when you call from one network to another network both companies have expenses involved. But it does seem to me like there ought to be a better way of doing it.
Charging for the privilege of receiving texts on the other hand is complete and utter bullshit. They're charging you for the privilege of receiving a message that you may or may not want without a way of avoiding it. Well, apart from completely disabling text messaging. You can completely avoid paying for call time if you don't answer the phone.
While we're at it, why on Earth are we allowing them to charge us for the privilege of checking our voicemails on our cell phone?
No, but some of them were running Fedora.
And if left and right wing politicians could agree on priorities, it might happen.
Which is why organizations have to have a much more formal setting. I remember interviewing for a job quite a while ago, where they had a twiki page, specifically too keep track of that stuff. It was a rather large campus, but there was enough going on, that it would be impossible to keep track of things were it not for the twiki page and fastidious updates whenever something was added or changed.