First off... Geek Squad are IT professionals in the same way a burger flipper at Micky D's is a chef. They aren't.
They are no less IT professionals than, say, a senior network engineer at Google. Why?
Because they work in retail and have no formal qualifications. Nor do they do anywhere near the same job.
Secondly, the word "professional" is derived from "profession", which means an occupation involving prolonged training or study. Someone who bolts together computers is not a professional, they're a labourer, someone who sells services is not a professional, they're a salesman, someone who fixes things is at best a technician, but more often they're just a labourer following instructions. Tradesmen/women are another form of career... but I dont want to confuse you too much.
Given that Geeksquad are employed as casual staff with little to no formal training and given sales responsibilities. They're casual storepersons, not IT professionals.
Remember that many professions have no formal bodies setting standards (and many of those who have formal bodies, still have no standards). There's no board governing researchers, but you cant call yourself one without formal training or at the very least, demonstrating enough competence to prove you studied to understand what you do.
Oh right, free market capitalism and competition only applies when normal suckers like you and me try to start a business, not to oligopolies and cronies who seize public spectrum, restrict access to utility poles on public land, and pour hundreds of millions into lobbying and captured politicians to protect their monopoly. Because the first rule of success in a free market system is to make sure there is no free market.
Exactly, these poor large corporations are not permitted to operate in the free market. As Libertarians tell us, governments are the only source of barriers to entry. These poor telco's have been consistently hamstrung by evil regulation preventing them from swimming courageously and carefree in the great free market lake.
Clearly we need less regulation to ensure that they can operate however they like. I'm certain they'll never abuse their dominant position to prevent smaller players from entering the market and then use their monopoly positions to raise prices and decrease service levels. Nothing like that ever happens when markets are free and unregulated.
Just look at what happens in COMMUNIST you-rupp. I mean anyone can just lease the communications infrastructure from the owners and start their own telco. Getting 200 Mbps fibre for 50 'Murican dollars is god damn Bowl-shevick I tells ya and no good can come of it.
How can anyone possibly think they can get away with a cigarette on an airplane? There's no way the stink could be contained, even in the lavatory. I can often smell it when the guy in front of my in traffic is smoking and I have my windows rolled up!
You dont understand the mind of the average smoker.
The first thing is they have no idea how much and how badly they smell. Its usually the first thing ex-smokers figure out when they quit. Like you, if someone sparks up in a large room, anywhere I can smell it within a matter of seconds.
Secondly, they've convinced themselves that it's their gord-given right to smoke when and where they please. Rules don't apply to them. It's all a conspiracy by SJWs to take away their smokes. They'll shout and scream and threaten until the police come and collect them.
You trust strangers every time you hand someone your credit card or read the # over the phone (...)
You trust the professionals to whom you request a specific service (and usually you pay) to perform that specific service. You don't ask them to look for interesting files, have the illegal ones reported, and some other legal files not reported but used illegally by them.
First off... Geek Squad are IT professionals in the same way a burger flipper at Micky D's is a chef. They aren't.
Secondly, I sure as hell would not leave a plumber I didn't know well alone inside my home... With access to my valuables. Said plumber may be a consummate professional... but he's still some random I don't know.
Posting it here is clickbait. The submission is almost guaranteed to rile the slashbots up and lead to lots of comments along the lines of "O tempora o mores!", "Kids these days want to change all the old stuff for no reason!". Nevermind that the Monopoly makers have thought about shaking up the piece set for decades. When I was a teenager in the early 1990s, someone doing a survey for Hasbro in the local shopping mall stopped me and asked me to give my opinions of possible new pieces.
Erm... wouldn't it just be (yet) another edition of monopoly. I mean we've got Monopoly, Australian Edition; Monopoly, Southampton Edition; Monopoly, Middle Earth Edition; Monopoly, Bagdad Edition. I'm supprised there isn't a version set in Paris Hilton's colon (gord knows enough people have seen it).
I mean they've been milking different versions of monopoly for the better part of 30 years. Why is anyone surprised?
I'm certain the traditional version of monopoly will be around to see my nephews kids have kids to fight over it.
"refers to the silent buzzing of the drive system."
If it's buzzing, then it isn't silent.
That's the problem with EV's. They still make a crapload of noise. Most of the noise you get from ICE cars is road noise rather than engine or exhaust noise. Well for petrol cars at least. The majority of the noise comes from the tyres impacting against the road surface. You have the same issue with EV's. You also have wind noise at high speeds.
I used to have a 90's Civic VTi with the D16 engine, that thing was silent. You had to ramp it past 5000 RPM for it to become noticeable over the road noise.
Scams were not invented in India. In fact scam calling is just another form of outsourcing where US based criminals use low paid foreign workers to do the grunt work. So if no singularity happened when Americans were scamming Americans none will happen when Indians scam Indians.
Damn Fureners, taking all the scamming jerbs from Hard Working 'Mericans. #MakeAmericaScamAgain
Seriously, I'm currently using a Nexus 5x, and had a Nexus 5 before that. The whole reason I picked those over a Samsung flagship was the 'low' cost of outright purchasing. The Pixel is almost 2 times the cost of my 5x, I will be holding off an upgrade for a while.
I'm the same, but the Pixel is a completely different product to the Nexus series.
If I had to replace my 5X tomorrow, I'd look at the One Plus phones.
I'm still lamenting the loss of physical keyboard phones, I dont care how heavy it was, the HTC Dream had the best phone sized keyboard I've ever used. Hell, it was better than some laptop keyboards.
You remember dieselgate right, where VW cars were cheating the lab based regulatory tests, by going into a state where the NOx emission are within standards, but when driven on real roads the cars exceeded the standards by 20 fold and higher. The point of the article is because the car standards are lab based, they bear a very poor relationship to the actual NOx emissions in real world conditions. The real world testing of heavy vehicles has ensured that they are actually lower in output than many dies
This, and VW couldn't even pass the lab tests without cheating. If you've seen the difference between a 9L Cummins and a 1.9L Fiat JTD you'd see a lot of things on the Cummins designed to restrict, recirc and reduce emissions.
The problem Europe has is that it has traditionally given concessions to diesel drivers. They still do now as diesels have lower tax rates in the UK and pay a reduced congestion charge. Places like the US and Australia never gave concessions to diesel passenger cars so they're very uncommon there. Even if Europe stopped the concessions on all new cars, it would take years to decades to get rid of the old ones.
So far as I understand it, when people get to any kind of stage 4 cancer, the causes of death are either due to metastasis (the invasion of the cancer into other tissues) or through the tumor severely impacting organs. The whole "chemo is the killer" is simply a meme invented by the alternative medicine quacks to sell you on poppy seed oil or whatever crackpottery they're trying to foist on morons today.
Yes, cancer kills you. Lung cancer, even if it doesn't spread will literally see you slowly asphyxiated as the lungs' ability to absorb oxygen degrades. The fact is that techniques like chemo (which have come a very long way in the last 25 years), radiation and surgey can prolong your life, if not outright save it, whereas 50 or 60 years ago, many cancers were simply a death sentence.
This.
For the most part I'd attribute the drop in deaths from cancer to improvements in detection and general awareness of cancer. To a lesser extent, the reduction of smoking uptake rates although if you wanted to class that as "general awareness of cancer" I'd see your point.
Cancer treatments work best when cancers are detected early, the last 25 years (or more) has seen an emphasis on early detection as well as advancements in diagnosis.
Problem was always that Jobs was a "visionary" who could direct the design process of the hardware and software while Cook was a numbers man whose expertise is the bottom line. When you want a new tech product you don't ask your accountant but this is essentially what is happening at Apple
By "visionary" you mean "marketer". Jobs was a marketer who use a cult of personality to sell overpriced crap. Apple was never ahead of the game, it just made itself look like it.
Now that Jobs is gone and the RDF is failing, people are seeing that.
What's so "incredible" about a $9 million salary for the CEO of one of the most valuable companies anywhere?
It's downright pedestrian compared to what many sports players get to throw a ball or make tackles, and it comes with a massively higher responsibility to boot.
Unlike a sports player, a CEO's primary income is not their salary. You see the issue is that salaries are taxable, cant easily be hidden or transferred offshore or disappeared down a loophole. CEO's have many other income streams, stocks and options for one and Cook will definitely be receiving dividends from Apple. This is why Brin and Page at Google have a $1 salary, it's all a tax dodge.
What's happened here is that Apple needs to keep the marketing hype in overdrive as they're bleeding customers. This means saying anything to get their name into the news. The whole gay thing has become passe, so now they need something new.
If they are employees, certainly Uber can demand that they work specific hours or not be employees anymore?
I've never heard of "employees" who can work or not work at their own whim just by signing into or out of an app.
Sigh, just because an employer can set hours, does not mean they have to.
It is not unheard of for an employer to pay based on work delivered. In fact it's quite common in some construction trades (I.E paid by the brick) or logistics (paid by delivery).
There are a few services where an employee can pick the job, bike courier for one. You certainly don't pay them for the time they spend standing around or holding up traffic.
If Uber drivers are truly independent contractors... Why does Uber forbid them from having the Lyft app open at the same time. Exclusivity means employee.
That's how you spot the men from the boys at a LAN party. The men will have dragged their entire gaming rig with them, monitor under one arm, boxen under the other and keyboard in the neckbeard.
I was once at a LAN party in the early 90's when John Romeo came up to me, dropped a 3-egg width cable at my feet and muttered something sounding like "bitch". The challenge was issued and would not be rescinded until one of us got TCP/IP working in Windows 3.1.1 or booted Linux.
" These requests include thousands of employeesâ(TM) private contact information which we safeguard rigorously"
Doesn't fucking matter. For tax purposes, these things MUST be known. ZERO EXCUSE.
Umm, the IRS is not requesting the data. This isn't about taxes, it's about hiring quotas and affirmative-action compliance. The IRS has all the employees' contact info necessary for tax purposes.
This sounds more like a politically-correct witch hunt on the part of the government. Maybe I'm wrong, I await proof that contradicts it.
Strat
Sigh,
No this is about Google demonstrating that it was hiring the best people for the job, not people based on race. It doesn't matter if blacks only make up 5% of the workforce as long as they can demonstrate that they weren't throwing out applications because they were black.
Sorry if this contradicts your Political Correctness^W conspiracy theory.
Your idiotic capital usage aside, I agree. This is what courage looks like.
I will sell this as my laptop recommendation of choice to my business clients to reward up for this, even though I'm not a fan of HP in general.
The problem is it's HP and they've been consistently crap quality builds since I've worked in IT... Probably longer than that.
That being said, I do agree with this move. Making laptops thinner means taking space away from things, that is usually either the battery or cooling systems. Given that laptops are rarely over-engineered these days cooling that works fine out of the box often fails when it's got a bit of dust in it and under load. Fortunately an overheating laptop just shuts itself down rather than frying itself, but it's still annoying.
We may be at the turning point of the thinness wars with manufacturers realising that it's pointless and doesn't win sales. Personally weight it more important in a portable device, having some extra space for airflow doesn't cost you there.
In the world of ecommerce, there are a lot of others as convenient as Amazon (and some more) And yes, I get spooked by online shops that can't deliver my order (after promising "in stock" on their site), even if they are the 900-pound gorilla. I think we're all looking for the moment when Amazon jumps the shark and starts becoming Sears.
In regards to third parties, Amazon are not like a retailer and more like a shopping centre. So the correct analogy is becoming like Westfield (buying up all the retail space near their shopping centres then leasing it out for insane rates)
The remedy for USA airport travel interaction with the TSA/DHS/Local LEOs?
Move to UK!
Regrettably, that won't work for most Americans.
I do prefer the UK airport security that I have actually experienced to the average/now normal USA airport Security Theatre. Personally I prefer British Airways to any USA airline I have ever flown.
If you think BA is a good airline, you should fly someone like Singapore.
Turning a 16 year old into a slave is all about control. You teach her that the cops wont help, you get her hooked on some kind of drug, you create a prison without bars by telling her shes done horrific things that the cops will send her to jail for years over.
In a physical sense your correct, she was free, but in a mental and emotional sense she was in just as much of a jail as someone behind bars.
This, there are good reasons this kind of coercion is treated as a serious crime.
The problem the US has is that the puritans view being a prostitute as much of a crime as forcing a girl into prostitution. Out here in the ROW we don't have these hang ups.
Things like this are an argument for decriminalising prostitution, by not punishing women it makes it harder for pimps to operate. There are already several methods to directly introduce "ladies of the avenue" to "johns", the classic example is a red light district with bars who employs "Guest Relations Officers" (girls available for take out, for the uninitiated), there are even more modern ways like using Facebook or Tinder. Its only the threat of punishment that keeps young women in thrall.
Prostitution is really a victim-less crime unless the law forces it underground where girls are put in the position of being victims. Most of the major sex tourism spots in the world have either legalised it or routinely ignore it as they have learned that trying to crack down on it only results in people actually suffering, most normal places as well, in England and Australia prostitution is not illegal, however pimping is.
If you altered someones reservations how lucrative would it be? What are the chances of getting caught? Is it worth the possibility of a long jail term for wire fraud?
Difficult to do for financial gain, but also quite difficult to get caught.
The security of GDSs (Global Distribution Systems) is archaic. To access my booking and make changes all you need to know is my six character booking number and surname. Realistically you can socially engineer the booking reference from the airline just by knowing my name.
Most airlines rely on two external methods to fix this. PCI, which is useless as I can pay with a different card and notifying the user which is the strongest security they've implemented but still largely useless as it required the end user to act on any information they receive.
When I make changes to a booking, I usually receive an email or text message from the airline notifying me of this. What makes this largely useless is the fact most people will ignore this information thinking that the airline will take care of everything for them. Whilst that is to a large extent, true in this case as far as the airline knows the end user made the changes.
GDS providers really need to up their game when it comes to security, but as per usual nothing will happen until someone loses billions over it.
Just maybe, we might just sorta think about how we could not even book flights until the intertoobz came along. All of those jets sitting on the runwaysnot in use because without the internet, there was absolutely no way to reserve a flight. Sarcasm much intended.
Because for some strange reason, once we try doing something on the internet, possibly the most insecure and interference pronemethod of doing anything, we forget how millions of us use to fly all of the time, without these sort of problems.
I also remember getting ripped off.
Travel agents are going the way of the VCR rental store and good riddance.
I live in Europe, that means taking the train or the bus isn't viewed as COMMUNIST and often is a sensible option. Although I only live 44 miles from Central London, I'd still rather take the train, then the tube to my destination because its honestly less hassle and the trains are not that bad here.
That being said, flying isn't bad either. Last time I went to Heathrow I was through check in and security faster that it took to get from the car park to the terminal (to be fair, the car park was 25 minutes away). Automation has made things a crapload faster at airports as you can open dozens of automated terminals compared to a few desks (the automated terminals can also handle multiple flights from different airlines).
Going through security was a breeze, they dont make you take your shoes off, just jackets and belts.
To go to Brussels or Paris, I'd choose to fly as its easier for me to get to Heathrow than St Pancras.
Point in short, flying doesn't have to be painful, it's just that Americans have made it that way.
Everyothing is the issue. What has happened is that the fake news people have succeeded too well, and a lot of people are simply not believing anything. I'll give it some veracity if BBC or NPR reports on it, but at this point assume that what I'm reading is a lie. That's what happens when you succeed too well.
Even the Beeb is becoming less reliable these days.
Whilst the creators and purveyors of fake news certainly share a large portion of the blame, if you're looking for the cause then you need only look for the nearest mirror.
Our society has demanded that news suit them. They've grown an intolerance for viewpoints that contradict their own, "facts" they don't agree with. Right now there are right-wingers who think I'm talking about "leftists"... I'm not, I'm referring to you mainly, the people who watch the likes of Fox News or read the Daily Mail willing swallow more bullshit than any leftist publication could ever hope to print (not that they're innocent mind you, but the Guardian will contain more facts than the Tele any day of the week).
We've become a society that values cults of personality over intelligence, slander over reason, echo chambers over debate. Much like the tits of a page 3 girl, people don't care that its fake they just want their ego stroked. I mean deep down every Fox News viewer must know that almost everything on that channel is skewed, distorted, altered or outright fabricated, they just don't care because it is telling them what they want to hear. These people are the problem because they have grown so used to it, any source of real news is to be burned out with extreme vitriol.
We're long past people simply abiding fake news... We've even passed the point where people are openly paying for fake news... We're now at the point were it's being demanded.
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They are no less IT professionals than, say, a senior network engineer at Google. Why?
Because they work in retail and have no formal qualifications. Nor do they do anywhere near the same job.
Secondly, the word "professional" is derived from "profession", which means an occupation involving prolonged training or study. Someone who bolts together computers is not a professional, they're a labourer, someone who sells services is not a professional, they're a salesman, someone who fixes things is at best a technician, but more often they're just a labourer following instructions. Tradesmen/women are another form of career... but I dont want to confuse you too much.
Given that Geeksquad are employed as casual staff with little to no formal training and given sales responsibilities. They're casual storepersons, not IT professionals.
Remember that many professions have no formal bodies setting standards (and many of those who have formal bodies, still have no standards). There's no board governing researchers, but you cant call yourself one without formal training or at the very least, demonstrating enough competence to prove you studied to understand what you do.
Oh right, free market capitalism and competition only applies when normal suckers like you and me try to start a business, not to oligopolies and cronies who seize public spectrum, restrict access to utility poles on public land, and pour hundreds of millions into lobbying and captured politicians to protect their monopoly. Because the first rule of success in a free market system is to make sure there is no free market.
Exactly, these poor large corporations are not permitted to operate in the free market. As Libertarians tell us, governments are the only source of barriers to entry. These poor telco's have been consistently hamstrung by evil regulation preventing them from swimming courageously and carefree in the great free market lake.
Clearly we need less regulation to ensure that they can operate however they like. I'm certain they'll never abuse their dominant position to prevent smaller players from entering the market and then use their monopoly positions to raise prices and decrease service levels. Nothing like that ever happens when markets are free and unregulated.
Just look at what happens in COMMUNIST you-rupp. I mean anyone can just lease the communications infrastructure from the owners and start their own telco. Getting 200 Mbps fibre for 50 'Murican dollars is god damn Bowl-shevick I tells ya and no good can come of it.
How can anyone possibly think they can get away with a cigarette on an airplane? There's no way the stink could be contained, even in the lavatory. I can often smell it when the guy in front of my in traffic is smoking and I have my windows rolled up!
You dont understand the mind of the average smoker.
The first thing is they have no idea how much and how badly they smell. Its usually the first thing ex-smokers figure out when they quit. Like you, if someone sparks up in a large room, anywhere I can smell it within a matter of seconds.
Secondly, they've convinced themselves that it's their gord-given right to smoke when and where they please. Rules don't apply to them. It's all a conspiracy by SJWs to take away their smokes. They'll shout and scream and threaten until the police come and collect them.
You trust strangers every time you hand someone your credit card or read the # over the phone (...)
You trust the professionals to whom you request a specific service (and usually you pay) to perform that specific service. You don't ask them to look for interesting files, have the illegal ones reported, and some other legal files not reported but used illegally by them.
First off... Geek Squad are IT professionals in the same way a burger flipper at Micky D's is a chef. They aren't.
Secondly, I sure as hell would not leave a plumber I didn't know well alone inside my home... With access to my valuables. Said plumber may be a consummate professional... but he's still some random I don't know.
Posting it here is clickbait. The submission is almost guaranteed to rile the slashbots up and lead to lots of comments along the lines of "O tempora o mores!", "Kids these days want to change all the old stuff for no reason!". Nevermind that the Monopoly makers have thought about shaking up the piece set for decades. When I was a teenager in the early 1990s, someone doing a survey for Hasbro in the local shopping mall stopped me and asked me to give my opinions of possible new pieces.
Erm... wouldn't it just be (yet) another edition of monopoly. I mean we've got Monopoly, Australian Edition; Monopoly, Southampton Edition; Monopoly, Middle Earth Edition; Monopoly, Bagdad Edition. I'm supprised there isn't a version set in Paris Hilton's colon (gord knows enough people have seen it).
I mean they've been milking different versions of monopoly for the better part of 30 years. Why is anyone surprised?
I'm certain the traditional version of monopoly will be around to see my nephews kids have kids to fight over it.
If you have nothing to hide in your refrigerator, then you have nothing to worry about.
The fridge can be trusted, it's the dishwasher that's the snitch.
"refers to the silent buzzing of the drive system."
If it's buzzing, then it isn't silent.
That's the problem with EV's. They still make a crapload of noise. Most of the noise you get from ICE cars is road noise rather than engine or exhaust noise. Well for petrol cars at least. The majority of the noise comes from the tyres impacting against the road surface. You have the same issue with EV's. You also have wind noise at high speeds.
I used to have a 90's Civic VTi with the D16 engine, that thing was silent. You had to ramp it past 5000 RPM for it to become noticeable over the road noise.
Scams were not invented in India. In fact scam calling is just another form of outsourcing where US based criminals use low paid foreign workers to do the grunt work. So if no singularity happened when Americans were scamming Americans none will happen when Indians scam Indians.
Damn Fureners, taking all the scamming jerbs from Hard Working 'Mericans. #MakeAmericaScamAgain
Seriously, I'm currently using a Nexus 5x, and had a Nexus 5 before that. The whole reason I picked those over a Samsung flagship was the 'low' cost of outright purchasing. The Pixel is almost 2 times the cost of my 5x, I will be holding off an upgrade for a while.
I'm the same, but the Pixel is a completely different product to the Nexus series.
If I had to replace my 5X tomorrow, I'd look at the One Plus phones.
I'm still lamenting the loss of physical keyboard phones, I dont care how heavy it was, the HTC Dream had the best phone sized keyboard I've ever used. Hell, it was better than some laptop keyboards.
You remember dieselgate right, where VW cars were cheating the lab based regulatory tests, by going into a state where the NOx emission are within standards, but when driven on real roads the cars exceeded the standards by 20 fold and higher. The point of the article is because the car standards are lab based, they bear a very poor relationship to the actual NOx emissions in real world conditions. The real world testing of heavy vehicles has ensured that they are actually lower in output than many dies
This, and VW couldn't even pass the lab tests without cheating. If you've seen the difference between a 9L Cummins and a 1.9L Fiat JTD you'd see a lot of things on the Cummins designed to restrict, recirc and reduce emissions.
The problem Europe has is that it has traditionally given concessions to diesel drivers. They still do now as diesels have lower tax rates in the UK and pay a reduced congestion charge. Places like the US and Australia never gave concessions to diesel passenger cars so they're very uncommon there. Even if Europe stopped the concessions on all new cars, it would take years to decades to get rid of the old ones.
So far as I understand it, when people get to any kind of stage 4 cancer, the causes of death are either due to metastasis (the invasion of the cancer into other tissues) or through the tumor severely impacting organs. The whole "chemo is the killer" is simply a meme invented by the alternative medicine quacks to sell you on poppy seed oil or whatever crackpottery they're trying to foist on morons today.
Yes, cancer kills you. Lung cancer, even if it doesn't spread will literally see you slowly asphyxiated as the lungs' ability to absorb oxygen degrades. The fact is that techniques like chemo (which have come a very long way in the last 25 years), radiation and surgey can prolong your life, if not outright save it, whereas 50 or 60 years ago, many cancers were simply a death sentence.
This. For the most part I'd attribute the drop in deaths from cancer to improvements in detection and general awareness of cancer. To a lesser extent, the reduction of smoking uptake rates although if you wanted to class that as "general awareness of cancer" I'd see your point.
Cancer treatments work best when cancers are detected early, the last 25 years (or more) has seen an emphasis on early detection as well as advancements in diagnosis.
Problem was always that Jobs was a "visionary" who could direct the design process of the hardware and software while Cook was a numbers man whose expertise is the bottom line. When you want a new tech product you don't ask your accountant but this is essentially what is happening at Apple
By "visionary" you mean "marketer". Jobs was a marketer who use a cult of personality to sell overpriced crap. Apple was never ahead of the game, it just made itself look like it.
Now that Jobs is gone and the RDF is failing, people are seeing that.
What's so "incredible" about a $9 million salary for the CEO of one of the most valuable companies anywhere?
It's downright pedestrian compared to what many sports players get to throw a ball or make tackles, and it comes with a massively higher responsibility to boot.
Unlike a sports player, a CEO's primary income is not their salary. You see the issue is that salaries are taxable, cant easily be hidden or transferred offshore or disappeared down a loophole. CEO's have many other income streams, stocks and options for one and Cook will definitely be receiving dividends from Apple. This is why Brin and Page at Google have a $1 salary, it's all a tax dodge.
What's happened here is that Apple needs to keep the marketing hype in overdrive as they're bleeding customers. This means saying anything to get their name into the news. The whole gay thing has become passe, so now they need something new.
If they are employees, certainly Uber can demand that they work specific hours or not be employees anymore?
I've never heard of "employees" who can work or not work at their own whim just by signing into or out of an app.
Sigh, just because an employer can set hours, does not mean they have to.
It is not unheard of for an employer to pay based on work delivered. In fact it's quite common in some construction trades (I.E paid by the brick) or logistics (paid by delivery).
There are a few services where an employee can pick the job, bike courier for one. You certainly don't pay them for the time they spend standing around or holding up traffic.
If Uber drivers are truly independent contractors... Why does Uber forbid them from having the Lyft app open at the same time. Exclusivity means employee.
Gamers don't use laptops, that's just silly.
That's how you spot the men from the boys at a LAN party. The men will have dragged their entire gaming rig with them, monitor under one arm, boxen under the other and keyboard in the neckbeard.
I was once at a LAN party in the early 90's when John Romeo came up to me, dropped a 3-egg width cable at my feet and muttered something sounding like "bitch". The challenge was issued and would not be rescinded until one of us got TCP/IP working in Windows 3.1.1 or booted Linux.
" These requests include thousands of employeesâ(TM) private contact information which we safeguard rigorously"
Doesn't fucking matter. For tax purposes, these things MUST be known. ZERO EXCUSE.
Umm, the IRS is not requesting the data. This isn't about taxes, it's about hiring quotas and affirmative-action compliance. The IRS has all the employees' contact info necessary for tax purposes.
This sounds more like a politically-correct witch hunt on the part of the government. Maybe I'm wrong, I await proof that contradicts it.
Strat
Sigh,
No this is about Google demonstrating that it was hiring the best people for the job, not people based on race. It doesn't matter if blacks only make up 5% of the workforce as long as they can demonstrate that they weren't throwing out applications because they were black.
Sorry if this contradicts your Political Correctness^W conspiracy theory.
Your idiotic capital usage aside, I agree. This is what courage looks like.
I will sell this as my laptop recommendation of choice to my business clients to reward up for this, even though I'm not a fan of HP in general.
The problem is it's HP and they've been consistently crap quality builds since I've worked in IT... Probably longer than that.
That being said, I do agree with this move. Making laptops thinner means taking space away from things, that is usually either the battery or cooling systems. Given that laptops are rarely over-engineered these days cooling that works fine out of the box often fails when it's got a bit of dust in it and under load. Fortunately an overheating laptop just shuts itself down rather than frying itself, but it's still annoying.
We may be at the turning point of the thinness wars with manufacturers realising that it's pointless and doesn't win sales. Personally weight it more important in a portable device, having some extra space for airflow doesn't cost you there.
>> stop shopping at the most convenient location
In the world of ecommerce, there are a lot of others as convenient as Amazon (and some more) And yes, I get spooked by online shops that can't deliver my order (after promising "in stock" on their site), even if they are the 900-pound gorilla. I think we're all looking for the moment when Amazon jumps the shark and starts becoming Sears.
In regards to third parties, Amazon are not like a retailer and more like a shopping centre. So the correct analogy is becoming like Westfield (buying up all the retail space near their shopping centres then leasing it out for insane rates)
The remedy for USA airport travel interaction with the TSA/DHS/Local LEOs? Move to UK! Regrettably, that won't work for most Americans. I do prefer the UK airport security that I have actually experienced to the average/now normal USA airport Security Theatre. Personally I prefer British Airways to any USA airline I have ever flown.
If you think BA is a good airline, you should fly someone like Singapore.
Not until it gets an app (or at least a mobile page).
Tinder is basically just Uber for prostitutes.
Just make a profile, set your location to somewhere where it's known to be available and Robert is your mothers brother.
Seriously?
Turning a 16 year old into a slave is all about control. You teach her that the cops wont help, you get her hooked on some kind of drug, you create a prison without bars by telling her shes done horrific things that the cops will send her to jail for years over.
In a physical sense your correct, she was free, but in a mental and emotional sense she was in just as much of a jail as someone behind bars.
This, there are good reasons this kind of coercion is treated as a serious crime.
The problem the US has is that the puritans view being a prostitute as much of a crime as forcing a girl into prostitution. Out here in the ROW we don't have these hang ups.
Things like this are an argument for decriminalising prostitution, by not punishing women it makes it harder for pimps to operate. There are already several methods to directly introduce "ladies of the avenue" to "johns", the classic example is a red light district with bars who employs "Guest Relations Officers" (girls available for take out, for the uninitiated), there are even more modern ways like using Facebook or Tinder. Its only the threat of punishment that keeps young women in thrall.
Prostitution is really a victim-less crime unless the law forces it underground where girls are put in the position of being victims. Most of the major sex tourism spots in the world have either legalised it or routinely ignore it as they have learned that trying to crack down on it only results in people actually suffering, most normal places as well, in England and Australia prostitution is not illegal, however pimping is.
If you altered someones reservations how lucrative would it be? What are the chances of getting caught? Is it worth the possibility of a long jail term for wire fraud?
Difficult to do for financial gain, but also quite difficult to get caught.
The security of GDSs (Global Distribution Systems) is archaic. To access my booking and make changes all you need to know is my six character booking number and surname. Realistically you can socially engineer the booking reference from the airline just by knowing my name.
Most airlines rely on two external methods to fix this. PCI, which is useless as I can pay with a different card and notifying the user which is the strongest security they've implemented but still largely useless as it required the end user to act on any information they receive.
When I make changes to a booking, I usually receive an email or text message from the airline notifying me of this. What makes this largely useless is the fact most people will ignore this information thinking that the airline will take care of everything for them. Whilst that is to a large extent, true in this case as far as the airline knows the end user made the changes.
GDS providers really need to up their game when it comes to security, but as per usual nothing will happen until someone loses billions over it.
Just maybe, we might just sorta think about how we could not even book flights until the intertoobz came along. All of those jets sitting on the runwaysnot in use because without the internet, there was absolutely no way to reserve a flight. Sarcasm much intended.
Because for some strange reason, once we try doing something on the internet, possibly the most insecure and interference pronemethod of doing anything, we forget how millions of us use to fly all of the time, without these sort of problems.
I also remember getting ripped off.
Travel agents are going the way of the VCR rental store and good riddance.
I live in Europe, that means taking the train or the bus isn't viewed as COMMUNIST and often is a sensible option. Although I only live 44 miles from Central London, I'd still rather take the train, then the tube to my destination because its honestly less hassle and the trains are not that bad here.
That being said, flying isn't bad either. Last time I went to Heathrow I was through check in and security faster that it took to get from the car park to the terminal (to be fair, the car park was 25 minutes away). Automation has made things a crapload faster at airports as you can open dozens of automated terminals compared to a few desks (the automated terminals can also handle multiple flights from different airlines).
Going through security was a breeze, they dont make you take your shoes off, just jackets and belts.
To go to Brussels or Paris, I'd choose to fly as its easier for me to get to Heathrow than St Pancras.
Point in short, flying doesn't have to be painful, it's just that Americans have made it that way.
Why is Facebook the issue?
Everyothing is the issue. What has happened is that the fake news people have succeeded too well, and a lot of people are simply not believing anything. I'll give it some veracity if BBC or NPR reports on it, but at this point assume that what I'm reading is a lie. That's what happens when you succeed too well.
Even the Beeb is becoming less reliable these days.
Whilst the creators and purveyors of fake news certainly share a large portion of the blame, if you're looking for the cause then you need only look for the nearest mirror.
Our society has demanded that news suit them. They've grown an intolerance for viewpoints that contradict their own, "facts" they don't agree with. Right now there are right-wingers who think I'm talking about "leftists"... I'm not, I'm referring to you mainly, the people who watch the likes of Fox News or read the Daily Mail willing swallow more bullshit than any leftist publication could ever hope to print (not that they're innocent mind you, but the Guardian will contain more facts than the Tele any day of the week).
We've become a society that values cults of personality over intelligence, slander over reason, echo chambers over debate. Much like the tits of a page 3 girl, people don't care that its fake they just want their ego stroked. I mean deep down every Fox News viewer must know that almost everything on that channel is skewed, distorted, altered or outright fabricated, they just don't care because it is telling them what they want to hear. These people are the problem because they have grown so used to it, any source of real news is to be burned out with extreme vitriol.
We're long past people simply abiding fake news... We've even passed the point where people are openly paying for fake news... We're now at the point were it's being demanded.