Posts by Mark 65 3439 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2009
I'd argue that anyone who was employed during times of 5 days a week in the office and then quit once flexible working was wound back to 3 days in the office from full time work from home is likely not a great loss. If that's your reason for leaving then I feel you may just be a little bit lazy and a little bit entitled. After all, 5 days a week was fine when you got the job.
But as soon as we start talking about integer multiples of salary, they lose my sympathy.
Integer multiples may be valid for complex skill-sets, desirable skill-sets, and accompanying experience. It is likely that a highly skilled worker, or at least one that knows their worth in a high demand/low supply environment would choose to work in a way that maximises post tax income.
If I employ a company under a SLA to support an application, system, etc. then how would I do that without specifying hours? I may need someone to be available on site during business hours. Does that make them an employee?
Lee worked for Nationwide through his Northern Light agency, which contracted with another agency, AxPO, which in turn contracted with the building society itself
I think his main problem would appear to be the convoluted nature of the relationship. It would appear, without knowing the specifics, that a boilerplate substitution term may have been put in the contract without adequate adaptation to the circumstances. The Justices inference around the end client having veto and requiring a suitable candidate is incorrect as no company anywhere would allow a substitution clause without suitable caveats - if they did you'd just do a "big 4" and send a guru to the interview and an imbecile to the job.
"I only work for clients for 3 months and then move on" does not somehow make you magically exempt to paying roughly the same amount of tax on that income as someone who's in the job for 4 months or gets sacked after a week.
Yeah, it really does. One has all the risk and the other has all the employment legislation. If the Government decides to weaken the latter then that isn't the contract's fault. Permanent employees have rights and entitlements. Contractors don't. Being outside of the system with regards benefits gives you more leeway to structure your working in a more tax efficient manner. That is the reward for the increased financial risk being taken.
Don't complain about others earning more or paying less tax when they are at considerably more financial risk than someone sitting on their arse in a permie role accruing benefits (holidays, sick leave, paid public holidays, redundancy etc). Maybe consider why the company saw fit to engage their services in the first place.
Eclectic Man: A bit of simple reading comprehension needs to be applied before you post. They were responding to the OP's statement about being threatened on the way home from a pride march and how they could have been stabbed, then how they would have wanted the police to have access to any information necessary... In this context the poster is correct that we shouldn't live in a police state just because of a few dickwads. The dickwads being a reference to the random that made the threat not anyone in the original article. FFS.
The crims, and there is an infinite supply of them, will switch to another method, and the cops will *follow* as usual.
It appears from the story that they did indeed switch - from one taken down secure phone/app to another.
I doubt they'll learn as they effectively paid to be imprisoned this time ($1700 per handset).
This is where the techno ignorance of the masses pays dividends.
I imagine that if you were also one of the devs at Phantom Secure or especially Sky Global you'd have an idea as to who it was given we know they had also been sentenced for drug importation before. I'd also guess that there are photos of them in the public domain or at least ones that could appear in the public domain.
The criminals involved don't need to actively look for that person - a chance encounter would suffice. Either way I can't see how you'd sleep easy knowing the magnitude of who you'd p*ssed off.
We long past what were once considered to be inviolable laws by combining the physics with software. We also do this with radio telescopes.
That's generally used, in the latter case, where you struggle to make the physical any better. That's clearly not the case here whereby you're just trying to pack more into less. Better sensors are available i.e. ones that don't try and use vanishingly small pixel sizes to win a pissing contest - better radio telescopes, not so much.
Are we confident that the technology has the longevity we need?
This is interesting itself in the cloud context where you control nothing and features/aspects you may be relying on get upgraded in an incompatible manner or receive a swift dispatch as Google tends to do with things it has lost interest in. You don't have to patch it yourself but then you may get a breaking patch installed for you (the greater good) or a feature removed.
Is the decline in market share for Firefox due to the stats including mobile devices (essentially locked down to Safari on iOS and largely only going to be Chrome on Android) or are they excluded? If mobiles are included I would expect Firefox's share to be distorted as they cannot realistically operate on those platforms.
From looking at the W3Counter link only 30% of the platforms were desktop OSes. I'd be more interested in the breakdown here as platform policies on mobiles can ruin your accessibility meaning they're never likely to compete.
You know this. It's a scale thing. The same reason it is usually cheaper for someone else to generate your power rather than building a plant next to the office.
True, but in the case of cloud the economy of scale is generally their profit margin not your saving. To most it becomes an op-ex vs cap-ex thing.
It may have gotten picked up, but just look at the state of the OpenSSL code base (patch, patch, bolt-on, patch) and how everyone promptly shat themselves when they realised it. It did get done, but just look at the state it had gotten into beforehand and that's one of the most used OSS libraries there is and not one that just anybody can have a crack at.
I remember when I worked for a large international bank. For certain key software packages they insisted as part of the licensing agreement that the source be escrowed such that if the vendor went out of business or decided to orphan the code they would get the source code.
I also worked on the other side of the divide and this type of agreement was commonplace from financial clients.
Companies paying a commercial vendor can be sure they'll be fucked somewhat harder somewhere down the track.
For OSS you have the source code. If people stop developing it you have the option of continuing yourself or paying someone to do so for you. For commercial software if it is end of life then that's it. If the owner decides to take it in a direction you don't want to go then that's tough.
Ben's last paragraph is important. I'd rather have access to the source but sometimes you don't have that option.
Elon needs to be prosecuted for what I believe are essentially lies, misrepresentations and at times market manipulations. He needs to understand that he is not above the law.
A subsidy seeking parasite maybe, but not immune.
One of the issues seems to be the number of dreamers believing his high priced low quality toys are the future. Only in that they’ve pushed real vehicle manufacturers to change.
To me this all smells a bit Silverlight. Here one minute, gone the next.
As everyone else has said - make a choice, make it clear, and stick with it. People are developing apps that may have a long lifespan in the corporate world where there is little appetite to constantly keep updating the UI framework if it works.
Why use title rather than date of birth - pretty sure those details get passed on or you at least are paying for an adult or child ticket in which case age is normally required. Less of a misunderstanding, more a case of simply running out of talent.
Not that either is a good indication of weight mind you.
I think Moxie whatever his name is went into the details in an interview as to what your typical issues are, much as you've indicated, and that the encryption of the message isn't really one of them. They are most likely using an open source (probably audited) library, however they've likely f*cked up the tougher parts of the implementation.
Potential source is, as another post states, someone in a lot of chats/group messages got caught and made a deal. No breach of encryption necessary as you have a device able to see all those messages.
There's always the possibility of a flaw in the implementation - crypto is hard.
If they have access to an unlocked device then all bets are off.
Have a look at the 0.1% or the 0.01% and how much they pay rather than the 1% which would equate to the top 30,000 and 3,000 taxpayers respectively rather than the 300,000 which would include middle to upper-middle income earners.
I think you'll find that those 0.01% (i.e. the billionaires) don't carry their fair share of the burden, as the whole spectrum of avoidance techniques is available and effective for them, and the bulk of the distribution will sit further down the wealth spectrum as inferred by the O.P.
Netgate's director of engineering, Scott Long, who said: "My team and I were proud of the work, proud of the results, and eager to share it with the pfSense and FreeBSD communities.
This tells me more about Netgate than they likely want me to know. They make firewall appliances FFS and yet they feel ok with writing software full of vulnerabilities and noob workarounds?
I'm starting to wonder whether I should remain using my pfsense appliance, especially given the latest release has an issue with unbound crashing / becoming unresponsive. Since it moved to pfsense+ (21.02) from 2.4.n I've have noticed things seem to have slowed a bit, especially around the initial site contact.
I find that a compounding issue is lazy recruitment. People who want 5 year of X, 4 of Y.....when you should be looking at the aptitude of the individual to solve the problems they will be faced with.
It always annoyed me as I struggled to meet the recruitment criteria and yet outperformed those around me when it came to doing the job.
I guess you're always going to get lazy hiring when HR outsource the placing of an advert to recruitment agents for a 10-20% fee.
There is also the problem that, given the need to convince them what you have has merit to be published, they are acting as a gatekeeper to what gets published and hence can sway the narrative on research by not publishing papers with opposing views. Whilst you can't publish everything under the model that requires free peer review services you certainly don't want bias in the gatekeeping.
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