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From the looks of it, going to CSC as those memos speak, means the former HP employees will be booted anyway. Per the latest here on El Reg, CSC is dumping more employees.
Merry freakin' Christmas HP employees. I wish you luck or a severance package that will give you some time to find a good place to land.
The best use for battleships these days is to "wave the flag" and also for supporting fire. Back just before the first Gulf War, the Marine commander responsible for landing Marines on the beach in Kuwait mused "Where the hell is my gunline?". Nothing available, nothing planned. If the landing had been opposed even moderately, the Marine landing force would have been mince-meat.
Those ships that have been upgraded can haul and fire an impressive amount of assorted cruise missiles.
I do think that your frigate could use some offensive weaponry as "a good defense begins with a good offense" even if it's just the weapons. It's not the big boys we need to worry about (Russia or China) but the smaller ones that don't have carriers and massive fleets.
Nice idea, but reality says the company will request that all the cases be rolled into a single class action suit. Result will still be the same... lawyers make their money, the compensation to the individual is zilch. The other problem is most folks won't bother due to the time and costs involved.
Well said. Part of the problem is as you point out... it's a one sided extradition treaty.
Some toss "human rights" about in a one-sided lump but let's take, say China. If China said "we'll prosecute and punish" which is what many believe.. there's either a long harsh sentence of "re-education" or a bullet most likely. I'm pondering that all this will never be satisfactorily resolved until all countries are on the same page as far as crimes and punishment.
Should he be extradited and tried? Is Asperger's a "get out of jail free card"? Did he or did he not break into the computer systems? Does it matter that it's US systems? What if it were another country who's computers he broke (allegedly, of course) into?
I believe anyone who breaks into a computer system should be tried in the country where the computer(s) were/are located. But... I'm curious how others feel as I have no real answers on this. .
Actually, just having NSA running amok should give one pause for thought. The change in the
Administration shouldn't as under Obama, it was conservatives and the right wing signing up. Now the liberals/left wing are signing up. I'm thinking that they felt like Obama wouldn't spy on them. Ha!!!! NSA tags everyone.
I think that "future government" is a myth. The reality is it's here and been here for awhile.
Having said that, if this leads to a cure for a range of crippling injuries and diseases, would the guy still be a villain, and would wheelchair bound vegans be refusing to accept a "cure" when the dirty work has already been done?
He probably would still be a villain and it's probable that the research would be considered tainted. Go back to WWII and experiments done on the Jews. For example, there was research into hypothermia that was brutal for the victims but provided a sound database for further study. For decades the results of the testing in the camps was forbidden to be used and understandably so. A little thing called "ethics"...
I have the previous IT Manager's PC downstairs. Considering why he's now in jail I think simply nuking the PC may be the wisest choice...
I wouldn't do anything except put some tape over the covers and then sign and date them along with a large label with his/her name and "possible evidence" on it. And put it in a secure location.
Sometimes the LEA's as an afterthought want that PC to be examined and the best thing you can do is hold on to it until there's a trial and it and any appeals are over. Wiping it might be the worse thing for you to do as it's "destroying evidence" in the LEA eyes and you'll have a real headache on your hands.
I've had to do this twice. The first time was an internal fraud and was directed on how to handle it (sealing, labeling, and storing it) and the second was someone doing fraud from home and also, as it turned out, from work. I handled it the same way and luckily I did as a month after the initial arrest, the LEA wanted the boxen.
Well, the USA can deliver food hygiene, clean tap water and safe buildings (mostly) - but, as we keep seeing, it can't even design and build complex fighter jets.
Not so sure about that. Clean tap water? What about Flint? Food Hygiene? We keep having recalls on produce and meat. I'll give you the safe buildings (mostly) part. There are signs things are breaking down a bit as infrastructure gets old and no one wants to spend the money. Same for food inspections and quality control of the food supply.
As for complex fighter jets... maybe if the DoD would stop trying to do a "one plane to rule them all" type of thing, and stop adding untested "features" it might have worked out.
I wish the US had reworked the F15 and F16 instead of the POS F35. I do like the F15 personally as there's something about having a fighter so overpowered by its engines that it can stand on it's tail just after takeoff and climb straight up. The F16 and F18 are still great airplanes as is the A10.
But, money and the power of lobbyists talk very well here in the States so we don't get what we need but what some clown wants to sell. Which, they're doing along with what PT Barnum said about "a fool and his money" and "one born every minute".
Have look here at felons and voting. Many, if not most, states do allow felons to vote either after serving their time or after a period time after release.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_disenfranchisement
https://exoffenders.net/felon-voting-rights/ This site further breaks down the various state rules.
I'm not sure whether to upvote you or downvote you. Yes, the "adults" (both sexes) are rapidly becoming un- or under- educated by the system. Civics and Social Studies as well as in depth History are subjects of the past. They get no broad education in the sense of art, science, or even music. Just pablum and "oh.. you tried so hard, here's a good grade". They live and die by the tweet, the FB post, the Snapchat. They weren't taught to think but to memorize. Critical thinking is a thing of the past.
As for the Pilgrims.. most haven't a clue other than once a year they get a big dinner of turkey, assorted veggies, and football (American).
They only know what they've been told over the years that there's someone to blame for everything and it's not them. They don't know how to think of a solution nor do they want one except in the myth of the American Dream as hard work, thinking, planning and trying new things is foreign as is getting up everyday and going to work.... and being there on-time, and doing a good day's work.
Life is supposed to be on a silver platter because.... they deserve it.
Will it put an end to "holy Americans"? Nope. Will this election change their thinking? Nope.
I do believe that the same type of people who voted "Trump" here in the States, voted for Brexit in the UK. It's not just a US thing....
This election has seen a large amount of BS, rhetoric, and anything to get a voter's attention. Trump pulled it off. Now the real question is what will he actually try to change and what will get changed?
Remember, Congress has to get involved and there's a helluva lot of lawyers in the US who'd love to take a case to the Supreme Court, He just can pull a law out of his ass and make it so.
I've heard a lot of BS over the years from politicians wanting to get elected and making a lot of promises and statements. Very little ever seems to happen. We'll see. Luckily, we can toss his ass out in 4 years if he gets too extreme or gets things too screwed up.
As for manufacturing jobs.. they won't come back. That's a pipe dream. No one can force a company to manufacture anything in a place not of the company's choosing. Trump's tariffs... require Congress (and their corporate lobbyist masters) to approve.
Actually, I've been wondering about "intelligence" since the Primaries started. Both were not, shall we say, the best of choices, and this campaign hasn't quite been down to the Tricky Dicky level.... but, I digress.
Enjoy the fallout shelter, I'm headed to my bunker for some peace and quiet. Last night the local neighborhood erupted with fireworks and what sounded very much like automatic weapons fire* when Trump hit the magic number of EC votes.
*I do know the difference betwixt fireworks and automatic weapons fire... I'm thinking it was a modified M-14. Definitely not a AK or an M16.
While I agree in principle with the H1-B program being corrupt and importing lower quality workers for less money, corporates don't care about anything except the bottom line.
If we look at manufacturing, those jobs (and the plants) were off-shored some time ago and they aren't coming back. The US has lost major skill sets over the years, such as machinists so that won't happen. The corporates decide to offshore IT and those skillsets will soon disappear also.
Follow the money or in this case.. the profit. Where's the most to be made? Higher cost (wages) US or lower wages/cost offshore?
"The total cost is significant. It doesn’t scale with the cost of the alternative, which is the human social worker.”
For may people, the social worker home visit is needed to reduce the isolation they already feel. Sorry, IoT isn't going to change things except to isolate even more people from human interaction. Not all families are Rockwell paintings and as one gets older, friends die off.
You have to apply for a postal vote. Bull.... in Oregon it's the way we vote. You register and the ballot comes in the mail. No special request needed.
Also in the US you have to register with a party in order to vote. Again... BS I'm registered as "non-affiliated". All that means is that I can't vote for Presidential candidates in the primaries. Everything else on the ballot, I can vote for.
I get calls from pollsters and the candidate "office" every day.. I just hang up on them. Yeah.. I'm an ass but who I will for vote for is for me to know and NOT them.. secret ballot and all that.
Maybe not disruptive to the actual voting and tallying but the reporting to State level and to the media? There's been some speculation that the earlier attacks were testing for something really big by commentards here and other places on this. There's other possible targets besides the US election but disrupting this would be a big deal to whoever organized it.
Why they would bother trying to get state of the art Xilinx devices I don't know as no company will sell them the advanced litho systems (or the support needed to run 2nd hand machines) they'd need to produce them in China.
A bit (or a lot) of reverse engineering would happen. Once they have the circuits, they could create the chips. It's probable that the chips they produce wouldn't be the same size but then, if it works and does what they want, who cares. They might also just want to see the chips and tech. Once they can sort that out, they're a step closer to making their own.
On trivia.. I note that the first 30 some comments are trivial... about Tabs vs. Spaces.
I believe Trevor is dealing with his inner demons. We all have them. For many of us, we end up doing something useful like IT. There's the few that totally scary and end up as politicians.
Someone in the DOJ said they apply to Comey in this case. Now that he's retracted with the "nothing to see here, ignore what I said last week", he should be charged.
Disclaimer: I dislike both prime candidates equally and the sideshow they've been running and calling it a campaign. The 3rd party candidates are a joke. These are sad and scary times for the Republic.
Seems there's been a flurry of reports lately that an awful lot of the political trolling is done by bots. Is this report flawed? Does it matter if it's a human or bot doing the trolling?
Either way, the end result is the same.. anger, hate, name-calling, dissention, and destruction of the process of democracy (or the republic, depending on one's point of view).
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