We do have a say in the matter. We elect both the person who nominates the judge as well as the people who approve it. I don't know how much better you're expecting.
There is no election taking place for senators who would review Garland. These same reviewers would represent the same citizens today as they will later. What I see is SPITE. There is spite for having an intelligent well thought out selection. There is spite because the Republicans want a republican judge, one partial to Republican biases. Garland is a neutral judge, fair to both democrats and republicans.
Is Obama able to appoint a provisional judge while the Senate decides on their SPITE attack?
The "Common Core" addition method of dashes, boxes, and bigger boxes takes 100 times longer to do than simple addition, but simple addition will get a kid marked WRONG and the school threatening the parents with legal action if they interfere with the Government mandated system.
I hate this. Not least of which is the lack of scalability. If one's are dots, tens are boxes, and hundreds are cubes, what are thousands? Ten thousands? Millions? When an elementary school kid needs to draw a seven-dimension-hyper-cube to solve his homework, it's a sign that we've needlessly over-complicated things.
My third grader has nightly crying sessions over his math homework. He struggles with basic concepts like multiplication and division. My seventh grader, though, got his beginning math done before Common Core took over and loves math. My wife and I are very active opposing Common Core and high stakes testing. My kids opt out of all of the big standardized tests, Some may claim we're teaching them "if something's hard don't do it," but I say we're teaching them "if someone tells you to do X and you think the reasons for X are horribly wrong, then don't do X just because an authority told you to do so."
If the children are just starting math, they have to have physical objects to relate to. I taught my kids math via money. We showed that we could use the coins in a constructive way. At first we limited the counting to a quarter. And we went to the candy store where my kids had to use the coins to pay for their selections. We had a deal with the bulk-barn candy store to help the kids. We paid the excess over twenty five cents, but the kids learned what made up 25cents. Another later visit for fifty cents and another for dollars. Adding and subtracting was learned by understanding.
We used memorization and cards to teach multiplication. The kids had card combinations to match the 25cent max, and gradually were given more cards to accommodate the 10 times tables. Once addition was mastered, the multiplication knowledge fell into place.
The problem with this whole debate, is assuming making a system that is secure is beyond the means of mortal men. And will need a big organization to make such a system.
The truth is. If Apple are shown to be insecure, the bad guys will not use apple, they may make their own OS, which doesn't have the back doors. It may not be a fancy but secure for what is needed.
So Apple is loosing business, and the bad guys are still going under the radar.
The bad guys live with fear that their messages can be intercepted. They have mastered Security. They use desktops and some powerful algorithm (twofish/blowfish and not AES) to encrypt their messages. When cellphones are used, to receive the messages, they are disposable devices. $40.00 gets you a new phone. The bad guys use the disposable phone and keep their personal phone clean.
Did the bad guy have two cellphones? Did the government collect the clean one or the disposable one?
When AES was first introduced, the entire encryption / decription was done in RAM. That RAM execution meant that to discover the keys would require many computers running in parallel, in a divide and conquer approach.
And then along came Intel with the integrated AES instruction. Substantially faster than the RAM version, so much so, that now, instead of say 50 computers to break the AES encryption, it could be done with 25. And with Skylake, (I7), used in a bank of computers, my gut feeling is that any AES encryption can be broken in a week or less. Its time to reconsider Bruce Schnier's algorithms (twofish, followed by Cypher Block Chaining). If I were to build a secure encryption algorithm, I would not use AES.
In 2012, My partner and I were selling an encryption software using the SPYRUS key. We did not use the SPYRUS for doing the encryption, but we used it to store a one kilobyte set of pseudo key data. The keys consisted of a table of bytes, prepared by the corp security specialist and with our salting algorithm. To encrypt a message, the SPYRUS had to be logged into by individual, which in turn allowed the software to use four integers, integers indexed into this table to retrieve the keys. That sequence of data retrieved was the encryption key, or the decryption key. The incrypted file header had the list of the integers.
Our business partner developed an AES algorithm for the cellphone that encrypted your voice in very near realtime (a few milliseconds delay). You needed a matching cellphone at the other end to be able to decrypt the voice message or anything transmitted (SMS, etc.). It did not matter if the encrypted message was sent in the clear.
For every encryption methodology, there is a smarter and stronger one around the corner. If it is known that the government can hack a cellphone, do you not think that a few hundred or thousand individuals would be doing likewise? There goes your online banking security, your medical records and the like.
And the technology won't benefit non-Apple computers?
The drives will be faster than an I/O interrupt, but don't fret, your internet speed is the bottle neck. Oh wait, we are going to communicate via laser beam on fibre to the ISP.
In recent years, I have rarely stayed at a first class hotel that did not have free guest w-fi. People expect it and will bail for the local coffee shop if it's not free in the hotel.
My guess is a lot of the offenders are in tourist traps where everything costs a lot.
If they used a REAL control system this would not be the issue. but instead they tried to do it as cheap as possible using consumer crap.
Tablets at the light switches is insanely stupid as well. real automation lighting systems still have physical buttons at entryways and doorways for the lights.
Whoever sold this system to the hotel needs to be outed and publicly shamed.
The hotel is in the hotel business. They trust the electronic doors, and other security stuff to contractor. It is the contractor that should be liable, if some item was stolen from a room.
If the sub is really in serious trouble and the US Navy rescued the crew (and maybe took possession of the sub) it might be a pretty good PR coup. Treat the sub's sailors well - good food, some entertainment in SK to see how life is there, etc. - before repatriating them to the DPRK. Treat the sailors as we would expect our sailors to be treated in similar circumstances. Besides, it's the right thing to do.
What would happen, unfortunately, is that the minute these sailors arrived home, they would be incarcerated. They would be blamed for the loss of the sub, and wiped out. All the good that would be done before their return is like the last meal given a dying man.
You need to understand the "Maintaining Power" mindset. 500 lives means nothing.
When the phone is finally decrypted, all they will find are a few business emails to his employer, a record of his timesheet, and a few selections of music that he picked up from the Itunes website.
They will not find anything of value. No idiot would use his employer's or his own phone for terrorist activities. He would use the coffee shop, the library, the university network, or even a public school network.
I wish the government all the best in discovering any incriminating evidence. After all, with that phone, they have a complete record of each call made and each call received. Surely they can publicly say, "We found xx telephone conversations that are of interest.
FBI, NSA, don't take the average citizen as stupid. Your wanting to allow hackers to penetrate the banks, the electric company control networks, the air traffic control, and oh so much more, and here you are after a measly business cellphone.
I thought that C++ would make it easier to contain subsystems as implementations of a collection of classes. Beat the shit out of a class and then test the next class. Any patches to the class would wait, or require a separate class to include the base class.
Of course, they probably wrote the whole think in assembly.
Replacing X is a big project. Sometimes it takes a while to generate something good.
I'm not sure anyone has a good model for handling rewrites of massive projects. The experiences of KDE 4.0 and Gnome 3.0 come to mind. Eventually, they were better, but it takes some time with a massive upgrade like that.
The other issue is that User's often have a very good idea of what they don't like. However, bulimic criticism does not help to refine a software product. It just splits the ecosystem. Ultimately the user's need to use their computer, and the new software just isn't ready. So the developer's and user's go in different directions.
Closed source isn't the solution either: with Windows 8, Microsoft split it's ecosystem. Windows 10 hasn't fixed the split (yet).
Perhaps we just defer Fedora24 for six months, and allow the F24 enhancements to be rolled into Fedora23. From a workspace user, there is little difference between F22 and F23. So, we could say, Fedora23 is a rolling release. And Fedora23 becomes Fedora23.1
It would take more than a week because the rest of the world would not want to harm the civilians. So strikes would need to be planned out pretty well and be extremely surgical.
Your dreaming.. Retaliate first and widespread, then for the second wave, take care of what's left.
If war starts, it will be by a widespread surprise attack.
Rubio made me cry today. He was complaining that the military numbers are down, and that we need more armaments and body bags. Doesn't he have ptsd ill friends, or friends with missing limbs to whom to send his crocodile tears?
Technology today makes wars to be done with drones, and not with foot infantry. Infantry are great for training other armies. Infantry are needed at home to manage defense, disaster recovery. Modern terrorist warfare is "Take no prisoners, use chemicals, do be-headings to save bullets, and kill the innocent bystanders"
The USA has the Iron dome, and other anti-missle missles and attack missles. Is the USA war going to be providing footsoldiers to Asia, Middle east, and other dictatorships? I hope not. By the way, the Iron dome has proven itself in Israel, where it was developed and deployed. Now there are very long range anti-missles being deployed.
Obama is following the advice of his Generals. Reduction in foot soldiers is a technological consequence. Rubio, Get your facts straight!
Intercept the packets, change a few bytes here and there, and send them on their way.
In all seriousness, I wonder when we're going to start responding with tactics like this. Imagine not just fuzzing the data, but imagine software that mimics thousands of these watches sending the fuzzed data back. Which one is the real data?
How is a company going to obtain meta data that would allow them to analyse for product improvement. Its time to stop thinking that everyone cares about your private life. With a few million watches sold, your info is only one anonymous statistical measuement.
The Chinese would like to know if the bracelet can fit fat slobs, battery life, etc.
I wonder how can one develop the proper reasoning need for a philosopher without the formal Logic training that is algebra.
Instead of teaching basic algebra at 6th grade and the second degree equations and mulivariables, use statistics to introduce the algebra, and not the reverse.
By 7th grade, a student should know what is the mean (average), understand negative numbers, the unitary method, and rudamentary graph plotting. As well, at least the times tables up to 13 by 13 or 13x13. I taught the kids math by taking them shopping. (If 5 things cost $5.00, how much does 1 thing cost, and if the were to buy 22 of them (one for each of the classmates) how much would that cost in total.
Real life examples are the best introduction to algebra
That's what IBM did wrong: set short term money/earning goals that were so aggressive that they burned long-term good-will to reach them.
Technology is such that one can often sacrifice the long-term to get short-term gains/features/improvements.
If you want to succeed in consulting for the longer term, then view yourself as a reputation company instead of a product/deliverable company. Measure your success by how happy your customers are at least as much as by current profits. If you make them happy, they'll go to you again for other projects.
You can use your good-will as a selling point in that you invite potential customers to interview current and past customers having similar projects. If your competitor(s) is a jerk, then the potential customer will find that out either when the competitor cannot provide sufficient references, or when their references tell the truth (Oracle, cough cough).
At one time, I was pro-IBM. I knew my customer rep, he came along with new literature, or with information that was important to my employer's needs. But suddenly IBM recognized that their hardware was way way way too expensive, when compared to alternatives with Linux/Unix. Thus, AIX and smaller more powerful systems were eroding the mainframe, and as a consequence, the IBM tech support. Out with the obsolete (no retraining) and in with the new.
And of course, MBA's are taught that do only short time actions. Do not do long term planning, and only in reaction mode. IBM's policy seem familiar?
I never got why they would ask those being shafted to train their replacements
It always surprised me as well, but from the other end.
Rather than being surprised that the company would trust the training given to H1B by their existing staff, I'm surprised their legal departments let them do it given the pretty much the only legal precondition needed to use H1B is that you can't find the skill set in the local population.
If you are having to use your local staff to training the people coming in, surely you have already proven the local population has the sort of skills need for the roles.
Lies, damn lies. If someone is going to cost $10/hr less than your salary rate, without heath benefits, and without extra costs for collecting income tax, etc. There is that incentive for the corp to save big bucks. Your h1-b replacement does not get OT. The corp just gets a bill to pay.
The loophole is "I want to pay $xx/hr (h1-b rates). Since the corp can't find anyone to work at H1B rates, it can go off-shore.
I have had to deal with being replaced by H1-b for quite a few years. I even trained my replacement too. It was just a couple of us. We got the project going and the company brought in the H1-bs to maintain it.
I never found work again. I got the BS line of "you don't have the skills" (never heard back when I asked, "what skills are those?") and usually heard nothing again. It's funny how "skills" are age and wage dependent in this profession.
And then to hear in the media that we Americans don't have the skills and that's why they need to hire H1-bs. Funny, quite a few of my classmates at my American university were some of those H1-bs.
My family looked at me differently as well as friends. I even had a family member take me aside and ask, "ARE YOU AN ALCOHOLIC!?"
WTF?!
This isn't about race. This is about American businesses exploiting very poor people. This is about gaming the system so that they can arbitrage wages and to increase the tech labor supply to suppress everyone's wages.
I don't blame the H1-bs. I'd do exactly the same thing in their shoes.
What I blame is the crony capitalist system we have where we little people get screwed and the benefits go to the top.
When Disney canned their IT department in Florida, did they pass the cost savings to consumers?
Fuck no!
So, where does the savings go to?
The CEOs and they get a bigger bonus for screwing us over.
This is just the business and political elite exploiting their laws to send us all spiraling to the bottom.
STEM work is for off-shoring to developing countries and immigrants from those countries. Any smart American kid should go into medicine. Have a look someday at what the AMA does to immigrant doctors. (Hint: they usually end up as nurses.)
have you never heard of the power of seven.. A manager can handle seven managers under him. Each subordinate needs 15% of his time or around one hour per day. The president may know the six or seven employees under his managers. At most, a president has no time for his 2nd level staff.
So why should he, a non shareholder get more than double the salary or the third level.
Famous words. "If I get a great salary, I'll push for your salary increase"
Oh, to be young and naive again. Do you think Hillary isn't owned by the corporations too?
Did you believe Obama would really bring "hope and change" too?
As a Canadian with family in the middle east, (Israel), Obama did bring great positive changes. He saved many soldiers lives, limbs and ptsds. He brought the soldiers home and stopped taking sides in the middle east. At least two thousand body bags fewer. The Iranians with their assistance to Assad have lost (according to them, over 1000 combatants, including generals), and for what?
Obama tried to bring in a single payer medical system, as has every other country in the world. The best that he could do is affordable care act (obamacare). You have millions who would be bankrupt if it was not for that act. No pre-existing conditions was the life saver (in many ways). If your job has not gone to a H1B person, you are lucky, but if it has, you will need Obamacare. If you are in University or College, the act was a god-send. Insurance without pre-existing conditions, and with competiton.
And then there are the bailouts for banks, car industries, and more. Bailouts and other things take staff and action. Did the Republicans work to improve the common man or the industrialists? The Republicans in congress have affordable insurance, for being in Congress. Why would you think they would be sensitive to the man on the street? Then there is the "what goes around comes around". Funding of senators, congressmen, judges, etc. Open corruption for all to see and say "Yeah, he/she was the best person for the job". I just love your blindness.
And what about the economy and the deficit? Look at the levels it was before Obama got into office, and look at it now. Your federal taxes have stayed relatively flat as your debt rises. Recall, a deficit means the government is taking in less than it is shelling out. Every year, deeper in debt from the excesses --handouts to the military. Over abundance of security.
I would say, (remember, I am a Canadian), that Obama has been the best president the USA has had since before Reagan. Reagan created two classes of citizens -- the rich, and the not-rich. In other aspects, Reagan was quite OK.
So, on the Republican side, who are you going to have --? President Quack Quack? A man who is not really wealthy, but skims the money from partners who get to use his name? And then, a man who has to be married to looks and to someone many many years his junior, and for the third time. If a leader that can't get along with two wives, how is he going to work with Congress and the Senate. Where are his brain farts-- those sparks of genius.
Yes, Obama is great for America. He hasn't been great for Canada, but we recognize his interests were and he succeeded to make the USA self-sufficient in gas/oil.
There is a limit to free speech. You cannot insight readers to violence or fabricate lies that create hatrid to others. There is more to hate speech. You cannot extrapolate American rules to the rest of the world where to rules are more respectful.
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We do have a say in the matter. We elect both the person who nominates the judge as well as the people who approve it. I don't know how much better you're expecting.
There is no election taking place for senators who would review Garland. These same reviewers would represent the same citizens today as they will later.
What I see is SPITE. There is spite for having an intelligent well thought out selection. There is spite because the Republicans want a republican judge, one partial to Republican biases.
Garland is a neutral judge, fair to both democrats and republicans.
Is Obama able to appoint a provisional judge while the Senate decides on their SPITE attack?
I hate this. Not least of which is the lack of scalability. If one's are dots, tens are boxes, and hundreds are cubes, what are thousands? Ten thousands? Millions? When an elementary school kid needs to draw a seven-dimension-hyper-cube to solve his homework, it's a sign that we've needlessly over-complicated things.
My third grader has nightly crying sessions over his math homework. He struggles with basic concepts like multiplication and division. My seventh grader, though, got his beginning math done before Common Core took over and loves math. My wife and I are very active opposing Common Core and high stakes testing. My kids opt out of all of the big standardized tests, Some may claim we're teaching them "if something's hard don't do it," but I say we're teaching them "if someone tells you to do X and you think the reasons for X are horribly wrong, then don't do X just because an authority told you to do so."
If the children are just starting math, they have to have physical objects to relate to. I taught my kids math via money. We showed that we could use the coins in a constructive way. At first we limited the counting to a quarter. And we went to the candy store where my kids had to use the coins to pay for their selections. We had a deal with the bulk-barn candy store to help the kids. We paid the excess over twenty five cents, but the kids learned what made up 25cents. Another later visit for fifty cents and another for dollars. Adding and subtracting was learned by understanding.
We used memorization and cards to teach multiplication. The kids had card combinations to match the 25cent max, and gradually were given more cards to accommodate the 10 times tables. Once addition was mastered, the multiplication knowledge fell into place.
IT WORKS.
The problem with this whole debate, is assuming making a system that is secure is beyond the means of mortal men. And will need a big organization to make such a system.
The truth is. If Apple are shown to be insecure, the bad guys will not use apple, they may make their own OS, which doesn't have the back doors. It may not be a fancy but secure for what is needed.
So Apple is loosing business, and the bad guys are still going under the radar.
The bad guys live with fear that their messages can be intercepted. They have mastered Security. They use desktops and some powerful algorithm (twofish/blowfish and not AES) to encrypt their messages. When cellphones are used, to receive the messages, they are disposable devices. $40.00 gets you a new phone. The bad guys use the disposable phone and keep their personal phone clean.
Did the bad guy have two cellphones? Did the government collect the clean one or the disposable one?
When AES was first introduced, the entire encryption / decription was done in RAM. That RAM execution meant that to discover the keys would require many computers running in parallel, in a divide and conquer approach.
And then along came Intel with the integrated AES instruction. Substantially faster than the RAM version, so much so, that now, instead of say 50 computers to break the AES encryption, it could be done with 25. And with Skylake, (I7), used in a bank of computers, my gut feeling is that any AES encryption can be broken in a week or less.
Its time to reconsider Bruce Schnier's algorithms (twofish, followed by Cypher Block Chaining). If I were to build a secure encryption algorithm, I would not use AES.
In 2012, My partner and I were selling an encryption software using the SPYRUS key. We did not use the SPYRUS for doing the encryption, but we used it to store a one kilobyte set of pseudo key data.
The keys consisted of a table of bytes, prepared by the corp security specialist and with our salting algorithm. To encrypt a message, the SPYRUS had to be logged into by individual, which in turn allowed the software to use four integers, integers indexed into this table to retrieve the keys. That sequence of data retrieved was the encryption key, or the decryption key. The incrypted file header had the list of the integers.
Our business partner developed an AES algorithm for the cellphone that encrypted your voice in very near realtime (a few milliseconds delay). You needed a matching cellphone at the other end to be able to decrypt the voice message or anything transmitted (SMS, etc.). It did not matter if the encrypted message was sent in the clear.
For every encryption methodology, there is a smarter and stronger one around the corner. If it is known that the government can hack a cellphone, do you not think that a few hundred or thousand individuals would be doing likewise? There goes your online banking security, your medical records and the like.
And the technology won't benefit non-Apple computers?
The drives will be faster than an I/O interrupt, but don't fret, your internet speed is the bottle neck. Oh wait, we are going to communicate via laser beam on fibre to the ISP.
In recent years, I have rarely stayed at a first class hotel that did not have free guest w-fi. People expect it and will bail for the local coffee shop if it's not free in the hotel.
My guess is a lot of the offenders are in tourist traps where everything costs a lot.
Naah. Its a Trump Hotel. Nothing is free.
If they used a REAL control system this would not be the issue. but instead they tried to do it as cheap as possible using consumer crap.
Tablets at the light switches is insanely stupid as well. real automation lighting systems still have physical buttons at entryways and doorways for the lights.
Whoever sold this system to the hotel needs to be outed and publicly shamed.
The hotel is in the hotel business. They trust the electronic doors, and other security stuff to contractor. It is the contractor that should be liable, if some item was stolen from a room.
If the sub is really in serious trouble and the US Navy rescued the crew (and maybe took possession of the sub) it might be a pretty good PR coup. Treat the sub's sailors well - good food, some entertainment in SK to see how life is there, etc. - before repatriating them to the DPRK. Treat the sailors as we would expect our sailors to be treated in similar circumstances. Besides, it's the right thing to do.
What would happen, unfortunately, is that the minute these sailors arrived home, they would be incarcerated. They would be blamed for the loss of the sub, and wiped out. All the good that would be done before their return is like the last meal given a dying man.
You need to understand the "Maintaining Power" mindset. 500 lives means nothing.
The 300 includes IT layoffs in other locations nationally. The 230 was for Okla. Hertz increased the number.
In case anyone was wondering where all those Trump voters are coming from, it's from scenes like this.
But Trump is doing exactly the same thing. Visit his Casino, Hotels, or businesses. Oh so few Americans and oh so many H1-Bs.
When the phone is finally decrypted, all they will find are a few business emails to his employer, a record of his timesheet, and a few selections of music that he picked up from the Itunes website.
They will not find anything of value. No idiot would use his employer's or his own phone for terrorist activities. He would use the coffee shop, the library, the university network, or even a public school network.
I wish the government all the best in discovering any incriminating evidence. After all, with that phone, they have a complete record of each call made and each call received. Surely they can publicly say, "We found xx telephone conversations that are of interest.
FBI, NSA, don't take the average citizen as stupid. Your wanting to allow hackers to penetrate the banks, the electric company control networks, the air traffic control, and oh so much more, and here you are after a measly business cellphone.
I thought that C++ would make it easier to contain subsystems as implementations of a collection of classes. Beat the shit out of a class and then test the next class. Any patches to the class would wait, or require a separate class to include the base class.
Of course, they probably wrote the whole think in assembly.
Replacing X is a big project. Sometimes it takes a while to generate something good.
I'm not sure anyone has a good model for handling rewrites of massive projects. The experiences of KDE 4.0 and Gnome 3.0 come to mind. Eventually, they were better, but it takes some time with a massive upgrade like that.
The other issue is that User's often have a very good idea of what they don't like. However, bulimic criticism does not help to refine a software product. It just splits the ecosystem. Ultimately the user's need to use their computer, and the new software just isn't ready. So the developer's and user's go in different directions.
Closed source isn't the solution either: with Windows 8, Microsoft split it's ecosystem. Windows 10 hasn't fixed the split (yet).
Perhaps we just defer Fedora24 for six months, and allow the F24 enhancements to be rolled into Fedora23. From a workspace user, there is little difference between F22 and F23. So, we could say, Fedora23 is a rolling release. And Fedora23 becomes Fedora23.1
It would take more than a week because the rest of the world would not want to harm the civilians. So strikes would need to be planned out pretty well and be extremely surgical.
Your dreaming.. Retaliate first and widespread, then for the second wave, take care of what's left.
If war starts, it will be by a widespread surprise attack.
No time to be rational on defense mode.
Pretty much. The decline of the middle class begins with his presidency.
Your absolutely right!
Rubio made me cry today. He was complaining that the military numbers are down, and that we need more armaments and body bags. Doesn't he have ptsd ill friends, or friends with missing limbs to whom to send his crocodile tears?
Technology today makes wars to be done with drones, and not with foot infantry. Infantry are great for training other armies. Infantry are needed at home to manage defense, disaster recovery. Modern terrorist warfare is "Take no prisoners, use chemicals, do be-headings to save bullets, and kill the innocent bystanders"
The USA has the Iron dome, and other anti-missle missles and attack missles. Is the USA war going to be providing footsoldiers to Asia, Middle east, and other dictatorships? I hope not. By the way, the Iron dome has proven itself in Israel, where it was developed and deployed. Now there are very long range anti-missles being deployed.
Obama is following the advice of his Generals. Reduction in foot soldiers is a technological consequence. Rubio, Get your facts straight!
Intercept the packets, change a few bytes here and there, and send them on their way.
In all seriousness, I wonder when we're going to start responding with tactics like this. Imagine not just fuzzing the data, but imagine software that mimics thousands of these watches sending the fuzzed data back. Which one is the real data?
How is a company going to obtain meta data that would allow them to analyse for product improvement. Its time to stop thinking that everyone cares about your private life. With a few million watches sold, your info is only one anonymous statistical measuement.
The Chinese would like to know if the bracelet can fit fat slobs, battery life, etc.
I wonder how can one develop the proper reasoning need for a philosopher without the formal Logic training that is algebra.
Instead of teaching basic algebra at 6th grade and the second degree equations and mulivariables, use statistics to introduce the algebra, and not the reverse.
By 7th grade, a student should know what is the mean (average), understand negative numbers, the unitary method, and rudamentary graph plotting. As well, at least the times tables up to 13 by 13 or 13x13. I taught the kids math by taking them shopping. (If 5 things cost $5.00, how much does 1 thing cost, and if the were to buy 22 of them (one for each of the classmates) how much would that cost in total.
Real life examples are the best introduction to algebra
That's what IBM did wrong: set short term money/earning goals that were so aggressive that they burned long-term good-will to reach them.
Technology is such that one can often sacrifice the long-term to get short-term gains/features/improvements.
If you want to succeed in consulting for the longer term, then view yourself as a reputation company instead of a product/deliverable company. Measure your success by how happy your customers are at least as much as by current profits. If you make them happy, they'll go to you again for other projects.
You can use your good-will as a selling point in that you invite potential customers to interview current and past customers having similar projects. If your competitor(s) is a jerk, then the potential customer will find that out either when the competitor cannot provide sufficient references, or when their references tell the truth (Oracle, cough cough).
At one time, I was pro-IBM. I knew my customer rep, he came along with new literature, or with information that was important to my employer's needs. But suddenly IBM recognized that their hardware was way way way too expensive, when compared to alternatives with Linux/Unix. Thus, AIX and smaller more powerful systems were eroding the mainframe, and as a consequence, the IBM tech support. Out with the obsolete (no retraining) and in with the new.
And of course, MBA's are taught that do only short time actions. Do not do long term planning, and only in reaction mode. IBM's policy seem familiar?
It always surprised me as well, but from the other end.
Rather than being surprised that the company would trust the training given to H1B by their existing staff, I'm surprised their legal departments let them do it given the pretty much the only legal precondition needed to use H1B is that you can't find the skill set in the local population.
If you are having to use your local staff to training the people coming in, surely you have already proven the local population has the sort of skills need for the roles.
Lies, damn lies. If someone is going to cost $10/hr less than your salary rate, without heath benefits, and without extra costs for collecting income tax, etc. There is that incentive for the corp to save big bucks. Your h1-b replacement does not get OT. The corp just gets a bill to pay.
The loophole is "I want to pay $xx/hr (h1-b rates). Since the corp can't find anyone to work at H1B rates, it can go off-shore.
Here we go...painting this as a racism issue.
I have had to deal with being replaced by H1-b for quite a few years. I even trained my replacement too. It was just a couple of us. We got the project going and the company brought in the H1-bs to maintain it.
I never found work again. I got the BS line of "you don't have the skills" (never heard back when I asked, "what skills are those?") and usually heard nothing again. It's funny how "skills" are age and wage dependent in this profession.
And then to hear in the media that we Americans don't have the skills and that's why they need to hire H1-bs. Funny, quite a few of my classmates at my American university were some of those H1-bs.
My family looked at me differently as well as friends. I even had a family member take me aside and ask, "ARE YOU AN ALCOHOLIC!?"
WTF?!
This isn't about race. This is about American businesses exploiting very poor people. This is about gaming the system so that they can arbitrage wages and to increase the tech labor supply to suppress everyone's wages.
I don't blame the H1-bs. I'd do exactly the same thing in their shoes.
What I blame is the crony capitalist system we have where we little people get screwed and the benefits go to the top.
When Disney canned their IT department in Florida, did they pass the cost savings to consumers?
Fuck no!
So, where does the savings go to?
The CEOs and they get a bigger bonus for screwing us over.
This is just the business and political elite exploiting their laws to send us all spiraling to the bottom.
STEM work is for off-shoring to developing countries and immigrants from those countries. Any smart American kid should go into medicine. Have a look someday at what the AMA does to immigrant doctors. (Hint: they usually end up as nurses.)
Move to Canada, or elect Sanders as president.
have you never heard of the power of seven.. A manager can handle seven managers under him. Each subordinate needs 15% of his time or around one hour per day. The president may know the six or seven employees under his managers. At most, a president has no time for his 2nd level staff.
So why should he, a non shareholder get more than double the salary or the third level.
Famous words. "If I get a great salary, I'll push for your salary increase"
Oh, to be young and naive again. Do you think Hillary isn't owned by the corporations too?
Did you believe Obama would really bring "hope and change" too?
As a Canadian with family in the middle east, (Israel), Obama did bring great positive changes. He saved many soldiers lives, limbs and ptsds. He brought the soldiers home and stopped taking sides in the middle east. At least two thousand body bags fewer.
The Iranians with their assistance to Assad have lost (according to them, over 1000 combatants, including generals), and for what?
Obama tried to bring in a single payer medical system, as has every other country in the world. The best that he could do is affordable care act (obamacare).
You have millions who would be bankrupt if it was not for that act. No pre-existing conditions was the life saver (in many ways). If your job has not gone to a H1B person, you are lucky, but if it has, you will need Obamacare. If you are in University or College, the act was a god-send. Insurance without pre-existing conditions, and with competiton.
And then there are the bailouts for banks, car industries, and more. Bailouts and other things take staff and action. Did the Republicans work to improve the common man or the industrialists? The Republicans in congress have affordable insurance, for being in Congress. Why would you think they would be sensitive to the man on the street?
Then there is the "what goes around comes around". Funding of senators, congressmen, judges, etc. Open corruption for all to see and say "Yeah, he/she was the best person for the job". I just love your blindness.
And what about the economy and the deficit? Look at the levels it was before Obama got into office, and look at it now. Your federal taxes have stayed relatively flat as your debt rises. Recall, a deficit means the government is taking in less than it is shelling out. Every year, deeper in debt from the excesses --handouts to the military. Over abundance of security.
I would say, (remember, I am a Canadian), that Obama has been the best president the USA has had since before Reagan. Reagan created two classes of citizens -- the rich, and the not-rich. In other aspects, Reagan was quite OK.
So, on the Republican side, who are you going to have --? President Quack Quack? A man who is not really wealthy, but skims the money from partners who get to use his name? And then, a man who has to be married to looks and to someone many many years his junior, and for the third time. If a leader that can't get along with two wives, how is he going to work with Congress and the Senate. Where are his brain farts-- those sparks of genius.
Yes, Obama is great for America. He hasn't been great for Canada, but we recognize his interests were and he succeeded to make the USA self-sufficient in gas/oil.
There is a limit to free speech. You cannot insight readers to violence or fabricate lies that create hatrid to others. There is more to hate speech. You cannot extrapolate American rules to the rest of the world where to rules are more respectful.
Yes!