Re: ""Defendants deliberately and uniformly cheated plaintiffs "
<quote>whats the other 1/2 cover?</quote>
Learning how to create dodgy financial statements that hide the gross waste of money by the executive team's indulgences.
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<quote>Tell me again why you should rely on The Cloud as the preferred tool to create or store documents? Why the convenience it might offer outweighs the risk that your provider will wake up one morning and shut you down.</quote>
NOT if it is your cloud! (i.e YOU own it!)
<quote>One would think that by now the company security people would be demanding dedicated secure lines to all substations and all marketing wonks and non techies being kept away from the control units.</quote>
ONLY to be overruled by the cost cutting MBA's (Mainly Brainless Assholes) who are worried about the "hit" to the executive bonus pool.
I strongly suggest that you bone up on the fundamentals of network traffic flows, and really come to understand this concept called "QoS", and how it can affect network traffic.
Here is a good place to get started:
http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Quality_of_Service_Networking
a key point being:
<quote>The primary goal of QoS is to provide priority including dedicated bandwidth, controlled jitter and latency (required by some real-time and interactive traffic), and improved loss characteristics. Also important is making sure that providing priority for one or more flows does not make other flows fail. </quote>
Now, think for a second how a malicious greedy ISP can fuck with the traffic that flows through its network? If I am an ISP, and I see traffic destined for (say Netflix) and I have a competing offering, why shouldn't I consider it a priority that MY traffic flows are smooth and jitter free, all the while degrading Netflix's? Why should I give shit if Netflix's flows are lousy, it is my priority after all!
If the customer's captive users don't like it, then they can go to the competition. Oh, wait, in my area there IS NO competition Tough shit customer!
<quote>But it's wrong if it's because the police chief is grabbing more money for his dept. And doubly wrong if it's because the city council is on the take themselves. </quote>
Here in Flori-dun, we have the Red Traffic Light Scams foisted upon us by bought and paid for city councils and county commissioners.
See below:
http://www.wtsp.com/news/investigations/two-more-cities-turn-off-red-light-cameras/102082599
and
http://www.wtsp.com/news/tampa-votes-to-keep-red-light-cameras/319125206
Mind you, these cameras are usually installed by for profit entities, and the locality gets a cut of the revenue.
Had a similar situation at a former employer.
The sales weasels went out and bought MacBooks and expected IT to support them.
They were not too happy when it came time to support them.
Our CIO's reply was short, and forceful: "FUCK YOU!!! I told you that we do not support Macs, and if you go out and bring your own, you are on your own." It was even sweeter when they complained to the CEO, who supported our CIO.
Many a sales weasel was pissed off; but they were warned.
No, you have that all wrong.
If it were Windows, the car would refuse to start complaining that it could not connect to the DRM server, and you were running an illegal copy of Windows Automotive. You would then have to fork out some more money to get it fixed.
Nice extortion racket, brick $RANDOM number of cars daily, requiring periodic re-installation of Windows Automotive. That is the sort of shit that would make the slimy ones at Prenda Law very proud.
You may be on to something.
Here in the USofA, road rage is a serious problem, especially in the cities.
Now, consider a fleet of White Hats that drive the roads, and come across some driver being a jerk. If the O/S was Windows, then simply hack into it, and shut that fucker down.
<quote>"Keyless entry" is a fine example of a broken solution looking for a non-existent problem marketing hacks 'feature list' that offers little real value to the consumer, but causes vendor lock-in with the associated profits from being the exclusive source of replacement parts.</quote>
There!!! FTFY
Listen up, boys and girls, the only reason why this shit is included is to drive up the sales price of cars, and to make them more expensive to repair. Infotainment module went bad? Oh, that is too bad, an OEM replacement is $$$$$$$, Oh, and good luck trying to find aftermarket parts.
Now, chew on this, as more cars incorporate LIDAR units for collision avoidance in their bumpers, the costs of replacing those damaged units gets added up in your collision insurance premium. And, since most people in the USofA either lease their vehicle or have an auto loan that requires maintaining collision insurance, guess who gets fucked?
This bothers me as two of my doctors use it.
Both have 'encouraged' me to set up an on-line portal; and so far, I have not done so, out of concerns that once an on-line account is created it could be hacked.
But, I do like the idea that the execs get nailed for the fines, as opposed to the company. Now, if you really want to send a message, include a permanent ban on their being employed in the healthcare industry. Along the lines of how the SEC gets rogue traders thrown off Wall Street.
<quote>If they'd gone after those who employ them with heavy penalties for knowingly employing someone not legally authorized to work in the US, there wouldn't be 11 million of them in the US now. But no one wants to go after the farmers, when they are the true cause of the problem!</quote>
BUT!
BUT!!
BUT!!!
If you did that, then you are hurting those job creators with unnecessary government regulation, and driving up costs..
That is not a business friendly way to achieve a reduction in illegal immigration. No doubt many of those farmers will wail: "We did not know that they are illegal immigrants!. as they exploit those immigrants.
Why DO people immigrate?
Often it is to achieve a better (by their home countries' standards) quality of life; sometimes it is to get away from war and strife. You can not blame someone for either of those reasons.
The first reason is often due to the lack of jobs that pay a decent wage in their home country, due to many factors, including the elite that simply think they can get away with exploiting their countrymen. As for the second reason, just take a good look at the Middle East, the answer is there plain and simple.
Back in the '90's my employer would be hounded by assholes trying their copier supplies scam.
I had a dial up modem attached to the pc, and wired in parallel with the 'guts' of a 1A deskset1.
One day this asshole calls up, and tries to pull his shit over on me, and I wasn't having it. I fired up the modem program and had it dial a number. As the modem started to bang out the tones, I screamed out at the top of my lungs: "God dammit Sarah, you stupid c--t! Can't you see that I am using this line!" I then hung up on the SOB.
The boss walked in, and had this puzzled look on his face, a short explanation resulted in a smirk as he walked out of my office.
1 For those who are too young to know, the 1A key systems were electro-mechanical in nature, using a 'fat' telephone cable (25 or 50 pairs), and one or two rows of line selectors ('keys')
If you want further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1A2_Key_System
<quote>See also https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/eud-security-guidance-ubuntu-1604-lts where they also advise that all usual user accounts should have 'other' access removes (e.g. chmod o-rx /home/*)</quote>
I can think of one reason why you would not want to do that: """shared"""1 files.
I have some 'media files' located on my home partition that I want to make available to a 'guest' user, or others who have accounts on the box.
1 In the sense that I "own" the files, and have set the 'others' permissions to 'r--' (read only). this way, valuable disk space isn't eaten up by duplicates.
Nice first attempt, but you have failed to list some optional equipment. Such as:
Pressurized (alcoholic) beverage dispenser (beer keg),
Horizontal beverage support counter (bar),
Nourishment container (bowl for peanuts),
Employee seating (bar stool),
Deluxe 'Power Point' display panel (flat screen TV),
Sound system, (jukebox),
Mood inducing lighting (strobe lights),
PHB attitude adjuster (baseball, cluebat, etc),
"""Candy""" (recreational drugs and pharmaceuticals),
Sporting equipment intended to """sharpen""" focus on achieving corporate goals (dart board with plenty of darts, and life size photos of obnoxious PHB's).
Combine these to create a 'desirable' work experience.
I have never understood the driving force behind such a tight release schedule; nor the whole number version bumps that accompany it. IMHO it must have come from some marketing weasel that felt that Firefox is 'old' if it did not bump its version number every time a new release is shit out. You know - mimic Chrome.
What else is pointless is the useless UI changes that get made (again, IMHO `marketing weasel` inspired) that show up; while long standing bugs get ignored.
I have said this before:
`Mozilla fix your goddamn code first, then worry about the fucking UI.`
<quote>Bosses card always 5 mins late entering the building overly long lunches and leaves 5 minutes early every day.</quote>
Not quite right
Bosses card log him entering the building, and the script erases that entry 5 minutes later, and does the same when he exits; so his attendance is essentially unprovable. Higher ups fire said boss for absenteeism. """The computer doesn't LIE!!!"""
Don't you worry, they will have all of that in the contracts.
I would suspect that this contract covers the basic infrastructure buildout, and operation.
Outlier construction costs, and additional features are extra.
If one thing the telcos learned well is the art of nickling and diming their customers to death. Hey Verizon, I am looking at you! A T Mobile commercial that 'nails you':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23ZRWypu6lI
I had the unfortunate pleasure of a Catholic Grammar School Education.
Complete with `Sister Mary Alice discipline' administered by a steel drafting triangle.
My knuckles still ache to this day (some 55 years later). I would hope that the proper punishment for those incompetents at Eircom be subjected to DAILY finger racking by each of the nuns living there.