This is something that was just recently addressed in the U.S. and basically established a "min wage for salary" as it were that says salary exempt from overtime now starts at around $25k higher than previous.
About damn time, too!
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Uber drivers entitled to UK minimum wage, London tribunal rules
Friday 28th October 2016 19:23 GMT 
The "sharing economy" is a scam
The sharing economy is and was always a scam. It's just the old paid-by-job/piecework/fake-contractor shuck and jive tapdance from the past that is, as another commentard wrote accurately and succinctly, dressed up with modern software so therefore "different!".
The U.S. went through all this and despite the never ending hostility to the average worker, does have very strong contractor and overtime definition rules.
As for Uber, reports are the turnover is very, very high. Having driven taxis and local contract deliveries myself when I was younger, there really is no money to made doing these types of jobs. One person out a of a hundred might make a living, everyone gets screwed. Word to the wise: don't do driving jobs, they really don't pay for most people.
The new FCC privacy rules are here, and nobody is happy
Exit through the Gift Shop? US copyright chief was assigned to shop till, tweeting
Disaster in Cupertino: Apple only made US$9bn last quarter
And so we enter day seven of King's College London major IT outage
Wednesday 26th October 2016 03:58 GMT
"King's College London is about to migrate much of its central ICT infrastructure to a new shared data centre, and the opportunity is being taken to extend DR and BC facilities wherever possible to provide additional resilience in support of the university's business. Maximum resilience and most cost-effective cover is provided by replicating as closely as possible the existing converged platform, which is designed and supported by Hewlett Packard, who have exclusive rights in the existing platform."
(posted by another commentard above. see full post above for dates and links)
I've highlighted the relevant bits.
To be fair, I don't know if the new center in on site or not but for sure it is covered by HP and not the college staff at this time.
Wednesday 26th October 2016 03:46 GMT
Re: Some interesting links...
"King's College London is about to migrate much of its central ICT infrastructure to a new shared data centre, and the opportunity is being taken to extend DR and BC facilities wherever possible to provide additional resilience in support of the university's business. Maximum resilience and most cost-effective cover is provided by replicating as closely as possible the existing converged platform, which is designed and supported by Hewlett Packard, who have exclusive rights in the existing platform."
Off site and outsourced to Giant Computer Company. SLA probably not thoroughly double checked.
I think I see the problem...
IBM Australia didn't stress-test #censusfail router and blocked password resets
AT&T buys Time Warner for US$85.4bn or 1.25 Dell-EMCs
Paid Wikipedia-fiddling on wheels
Monday 24th October 2016 23:32 GMT
No surprise, but...
Here's my experience:
I've been trying for several years to have a biography published on Wikipedia of someone who had a very long and influential career in video gaming, worked for almost every big name you can think of, has a very important patent and is the engineering leader of many of the most popular games you ever heard of in the past. You know, the person who makes the games actually work.
And that's the short list of his achievements. He is also very well known and respected inside the industry.
Yet it was rejected every time I tried to submit it with vague reasons given no matter how many times I rewrote it and scrupulously followed their guidelines.
He finally had to resort to paying someone to get it published.
I have no love for Wikipedia.
Murder in the Library of Congress
Finally, that tech fad's over: Smartwatch sales tank more than 50%
Today the web was broken by countless hacked devices – your 60-second summary
DNS devastation: Top websites whacked offline as Dyn dies again
IBM throws ISP under a bus for Australia's #Censusfail
Puppet shows its hand: All your software is belong to us
Friday 21st October 2016 17:28 GMT
Wha... what?
“At some point, all software is going to be installed, configured, monitored, and managed by other software,”
Isn't this done already? Been done for years? Seriously, WTF is he talking about?
I'm pretty good at buzzword bingo, but statements that sound like something that has been done for years have never been done, hurt my head.
Hax0rs sow Discord by using VoIP service to sling malware at gamers
Meanwhile, in America: Half of adults' faces are in police databases
Kids today are so stupid they fall for security scams more often than greybeards
Thursday 20th October 2016 21:30 GMT
Re: Gonna get pwned one day
...hopefully whatever security software I have at that point will save my stupid arse from too much damage....
I've been pwned twice in 20 years. Once on my PC and once on my phone.
PC had good A/V but had not been updated. Fortunately, I keep more than one A/V and recovery utility. Was able to restore after several hours without wiping and re-installing.
Phone had no A/V but everything was backed up. Wiped and reinstalled back ups in one hour. While sitting at a bar.
So yes, good A/V and backups will save you and help you recover very quickly.
DARPA unveils robot co-pilot
Basic income after automation? That’s not how capitalism works
Thursday 20th October 2016 07:07 GMT
Re: Infinite Economics
People can't buy what they can't afford.
Example: in the U.S. new car sales averaged 10 million vehicles per year during the 1970s and 80s. After the Saving and Loan disaster and resulting recession, car sales have never reached 9 million again with the average being 8 million in the 1990s and then 7 million in this century.
Why? The 3 recessions from the late 1980s to now have destroyed that much disposable income of the potential buyers.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/199974/us-car-sales-since-1951/
Killing the golden goose, customers, is considered a bad idea. Why American capitalism thinks this is good idea is beyond me.
Tuesday 18th October 2016 18:02 GMT
No basic income but no jobs?
Let them eat cake! That always works, right? Because no one ever got mad, overthrew governments and burned everything down and killed rich people (who thought they were untouchable) by the thousands because they and family and friends were dying and starving to death, right?
Several billion people will just accept being left die.
Right? RIGHT?!
Yeah, that will end well. History says so! Oh wait...
Here's how much HP's 3-in-1 PC replacement will cost you
Wednesday 19th October 2016 20:37 GMT
They could not have picked a worse process
Seriously, this has to be the hardest and worst way possible to converge devices.
WTF were they thinking?
One day your phone will be all the PC you need. You just dock it at the desk when you need to get serious work done or a laptop shell for serious field work. HP's solution is no solution.
Honeywell's UK staff mull strike action
Tuesday 18th October 2016 17:50 GMT
Re: Time to restore the employer/employee balance
It's already backfiring in shoddy products and services resulting in lawsuits from very large clients and regulatory fines. Many articles right here on El Reg.
Unfortunately, it's still not enough to affect the larger companies profits. (thus showing the entire concept of "free market" is utter bullshit)
It's finally happened: Hackers are coming for home routers en masse
Microsoft keeps schtum as more battery woes hit Surface sufferers
Wednesday 19th October 2016 19:01 GMT
Here' a crazy idea
How about they and all the other companies stop buying Chinese made batteries? (battery recalls links)
Google has unleashed Factivism to smite the untruthy
Sweet, vulnerable IoT devices compromised 6 min after going online
New Brit Hubble analysis finds 2,000 billion galaxies, 10x previous count
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
