Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26124 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
It didn't say they left the technology industry for a job in the happy land of eg. investment banking.
It just says that they got fed up of coding language X at company Y and walked across the road to sit in front of exactly the same app coding language X at company Z
This suggests that the tech industry is ok, it's just that worker mobility in very high, staff are in demand and techie skills are transferable.
In other news, grass green, water wet and mondays suck
Grew up in Belfast with terrorists trying to kill me.
The ones nominally targeting me were the ones supported/funded by the British government (as opposed to one supported/funded by the Irish and Americans)
Then one lot blew up a bit of London and worryingly it looked like it could affect the banks, so suddenly there are no terrorists just a bunch of "statesmen" being invited to meet Prince Charles
I assume he was involved in giving away food for free as part of this "famine relief", an obviously un-American activity.
Of course if he was involved in some money wasting UN mission that flew first class and sat around in air conditioned mercedes writing reports stressing that something must be done - then I apologise.
The concern was that the fees/difficulty in not using the automated system would gradually increase until only the sort of people that have their own team of lawyers ( ie rich crooks)can afford to go to court - everyone else would be forced to just plead guilty to everything online
So the pay a parking/speeding ticket within 24 hours for £50 or go to court and pay £250 + costs. Becomes a "CCTV says you were in a fight" pay £500 fine now online, or go to court and get 18months and £1000 in costs = pay up if you are black/poor/been in trouble with the police whether that was you in the CCTV or not
>Europe really must insist on data sovereignty, proper arms-length operation of European DCs.
Which wouldn't work in this case.
The data was for a US customer, Google merely moved it to an overseas data center for operational reasons. The microsoft case was for Irish customer's data hed in Ireland.
If the EU law applied to American data temporarily held in Europe then would Google be able to copy it back to its US user or would the Eu prevent this? Would the Eu have the right to spy on the American data because it happened to be taking advantage of winter in Finland to reduce the AC bill?
Simple - double the minimum salary to say $120K and allow people to easily switch employers.
If he people are really vital then you don't mind paying - and if they can switch you can't force them to be slave labour
Or Google/Facebook/iTunes can demand that the ISP pay them for the right to carry their valuable services on their cable - just the same way that HBO, ESPN etc charge the cable companies.
The only one that is screwed is Netflix. I wonder how much bandwidth an ISP that also sells cable TV service is going to give tem
That only matters if you are going to orbit.
Branson is only doing "near space" weightless parabola flights for rich idiots.
They can take of from anywhere that has consistent good weather and is in the sort of fancy resort location that attracts billionaires - Prestwick sounds ideal.
Yes but what the fsck does that have to do with the FCC?
The FCC's job is to regulate communications technologies/bandwidth/standards for the good of everyone - not decide what the social norms are.
I don't like milk in coffee but it's not the Food and Drug Administration's job to ban it.
Somebody that restores WWII aircraft told me a similar problems applies to USAF models.
The manufacturers are so worried that somebody will rebuild a B17, crash it into an airshow crowd and will sue Boeing - that they destroyed all the manuals/parts/tooling for vintage aircraft.
Ironically it is easy to get service manuals for WWII German aeroplanes
I wonder how much is due to FAA/CAA regulations.
If you keep the name the same and gradually change each part then you just file a stack of Engineering Change Orders with very specific and limited testing. Renaming may make it a new aircraft and have to certify everything from scratch to today's standards.
Same with pilot and maintenance certification, it is probably simpler to get certification updates to a new procedure on the "same" aircraft than be trained on an totally new one.
Although the surviving ones don't fly many hours and have a ludicrous amount of maintenance lavished on them compared to a civil airliner.
The surviving ones IIRC were the SAC nuclear ones which weren't used in vietnam and so have the lowest cycles.
Compared to the bank.
Go £1 overdrawn,
Get charged a very reasonable 10% interest rate on this
Plus a $100 fee for an unauthrorized overdraft
Then a £80 letter telling you about it
Then another £100 fee because the letter went out on the last day of the previous month and the fee is per month
Then get a tax hike to bail out the bank that did this because it lost money gambling in the US housing market
