Posts by Dan Paul 1582 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Jul 2007
Can you blame the CEO when they hire from within? Inhuman Resources brings the candidates for hire, NOT the CEO. She had been there for years and the company process was well known. It's no different than a typical Simon Travaglia story (which are based somewhat on reality and the Peter Principle in the IT world) Let's face it, the boss doesn't need to know IT if surrounded by those who do!
I dont care... they (the entire IT Department) are still responsible for preventing this kind of hack in the first place and I don't care who you want to blame (justify). If you are underpaid, find another job don't blame your pay for deliberately ignoring a hack attack.
The CEO got technically fired (resigned), the CFO is now the CEO. Who did you want to balme now?
No, the IT department ignored the warings and are the ones who handled the hacked info and the computers it was stored on. THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE! THEY should all be sacked. Who cares about "directives" when something like that was happening? Even GOD could personally tell me to ignore the hack and I would not be able to.
If it's at the will of the employer then its' "Employment at will" IE you are employed at the sole will of the employer. If I were writing a doctoral thesis where semantics really matter, I might change the wording. Except I was responding in a forum, to a specific person (not you) about what they percieve to be an affront to their LGBT sensibilities because it sounds to me like they talk too much, are obviously gay and probably have their "partner" and their lifestyle all over their "wastebook" pages and thus did not get a job at Target. IE the employer did not like the color of the potential employee's "spots". I advised the person to try and find employment where they might get a better reception (the Arts) and what they could do to be less obvious. Hardly a chip, hardly rallying the troops.
BTW, I am completely vaccinated not that it's any business of yours.
I was NOT making anything personal about ANYTHING and remember, YOU are the one making the suppositions and using the threats and epithets, not me. I fail to understand how my post was "angry" or "personal". Yours was for sure!
One thing I find ridiculous is how many people get downvoted for simply having an opinon and in many cases stating the "truth" as it is applied by others.
Too many people on the defensive here
Who contracted the Security Specialists? I will bet it wasnt the CEO, perhaps the CFO/CIO but then if the IT department ignored the warnings.....they might be part of the problem. In fact they might BE the problem. Ever hear of an "inside job"?
In the business world, it is often customary for the lower paid workers to be fired before the CEO resigns. Even if they had nothing to do with it.
If I were Target, everyone responsible for ANY aspect of this problem would be gone, if not for anything but surety that ALL the people "responsible" were no longer able to be to blamed. Then the CEO has the option to resign.
BTW Don Jefe, all I was attempting to say was the truth as I have seen it in practice of nearly 27 years in business. If you want to read things into what I advised the LGBT person, go ahead. Seems your vitriol knows no bounds. The truth hurts doesn't it?
There are no laws (with teeth) that protect employees of ANY denomination in the USA. We have what is called "employment at will" in almost all states in the USA. You will be old and grey before any "law" will really "protect" you from discrimination.
You can say it was because you were LGBT, but "they" will say you were fired (or not hired) for some other reason. This is one reason why you keep politics and other "preferences" and any mention of them out of the workplace. Keep your mouth shut and your nose to the grindstone. Act as conservative as you can. Don't even THINK of trying to use your workplace as a sounding board for your ideals.
Face it, if they don't like the color of your spots you are shit out of luck. This has been a fact forever. If you can't understand, try and work in the Arts. They might be more appreciative.
As far as sacrificing the CEO because of stupidity, the ENTIRE IT department should be LONG GONE before you even look at the CEO. This is soley sacrifical, makes no sense at all. Just like Mozilla's CEO to me
@Intractable Potsherd -
I DO know what chav is and we have plenty of them here too, just slightly different. Evolution is proven science, I am NOT a right to lifer-holy roller. Robert Heinlein actually wrote some pretty damn good science fiction; but you OBVIOUSLY haven't read any of the good stuff, probably because you are an idiot and unable to understand it or how to read; since the public education system obviously failed you so glaringly. You are completely wrong in agreeing with giving away everything to people who don't/won't work, who would rather live off the dole than take any initiative of their own and get a job. The largest part of them should just be forced into working or let them suffer the pains of natural selection.
I believe (like Heinlein) that morons like you should not be able to vote in any election or be considered a "citizen" until you own property and have been gainfully employed for 5 years continuously. Then maybe I would not have such ridiculous taxes that only exist to pay for the lazy likes of you unproductive wastes of breath and time spent typing.
Fuck all you pretentious, lazy, self centered, hypocritical, idiots, may your road rise up to grind you into a billion pieces on your way to hell!
Are you kidding me?????
"Fair degree of social and health care" Don't you read? TV too difficult to use?
We have too much social and health care. We spend too much on slouchy layabouts like you in the USA. The "education system" (read indoctrination system) NEEDS to become privatised to get RID of your kind (chavs). Maybe they could beat it out of you. Most Eurocounties are reversing the dole.
You must wish for "good ole socialism". I wish people like you would just pick up and go to Europe (specifcally France or Greece) where you belong.
All the Judges (nationwide) OTHER than the Supremes are elected. The reason the Supremes are appointed is because they serve for LIFE. They are intended to judge the way the President wants. Thank god they are more conservative than liberal or you'd be toast already.
Look at what weak "namby pamby" Presidency is getting us from Putin right now.
The trouble is Andrew that ALL the Telco's in the US that had wired connections to the home had been paid a monthly maintenance fee on the wire by the homeowners. Unfortunately the Telco's just don't want to maintain the physical infrastructure any more. I can't get them to provide wiring that does not get all scatchy when it gets wet from the rain. They (Verizon) lost a DSL customer becuase of the speed degadation and I reduced my phone services as well.
No one in ANY State or Federal Government is going to bother to recoup those fees because they have been bought and paid for by the phone companies. Figure $5.00/month times millions of subscribers.
All too late but the FCC SHOULD have told ALL the ISP's that owning or producing ANY content was illegal. TV Service on cable should have been alacarte as well.
Living where I do, there is only Time Warner (Now Comcast) as there is NO Verizon FTTH, only DSL. If I lived 30 miles south I could have Verizon Fiber at huge and unwanted expense.
Choice is not available in much of Western NY, USA. We have no AT&T, satellite or fiber is ridiculous, dialup or DSL is pointless, and who can afford to have a T1 delivered to the home?
Pot meet Kettle, you're both black.... not that I'm criticizing but there truly are MANY less gun killings due to violence in the US than deaths due to bad medical practices or car accidents. Half of the roughly 38,00 deaths are due to SUICIDE not gun related violence
Note that number of killings and accompanying crime HAS ACTUALLY decreased where the populace can legally own guns. Overreaction to school shootings by CRAZY people notwithstanding, there is little that can actually be done to stop criminals from illegally obtaining guns.
For example, the cities of Detroit and Chicago each ban ordinary law abiding citizens from owning handguns. Criminals don't care.
In each of the banned areas, violent and gun crime has risen soley because NONE of these laws affect the criminals who STILL have guns (even though the guns are banned). In similar areas that ALLOW gun ownership,there is very little crime because those criminals understand they are facing an armed citizen.
Banning handguns or any weapon does NOT stop criminals, it only makes more victims. 9 people died just last week because the police regularly take 30 minutes to arrive or longer and are no deterrent to crime. Gangs no longer even care and the fact their guns are illegal makes them MORE prone to use them fatally. Dead men tell no tales.
However, you have an agenda so you continue to fail to understand.
I really don't know or care what kind of stupid you are promulgating but rounded corners of ANY kind or radius cannot stand cogent patent scrutiny because they pre date the advent of electronics.
That whiskey flask in your great grandad's hip pocket had rounded corners! THAT is prior art and should settle this stupid arguement forever if heard by someone who was not in the pay of Apple.
Public Execution is EXACTLY the punishment that writers of malware deserve. They get their 15 minutes of fame and we get worm food, some form of deterrence, and the satisfaction we aren't paying to house and feed the scum of humanity.
Too bad that so many here feel some kind of compassion for the subhuman scum that write malware. They feel no compassion for YOU....
They deserve worse than death, but that's as much punishment as you can legislate in the USA
These scum don't deserve ANY respect, or imprisonment or second chance at life. They deserve Public Execution. There is no justification for their lives at all, once convicted and the appeal process is over the minimum should be life in prison under the guise that they are kiddie fiddlers. That will get them what they deserve at least.
Whatever is done to them should be very public and put online so others can see what happens to scum like them.....
There is a HUGE difference between RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE and LEGAL (Think City Hall) MARRIAGE.
THESE TWO NEED TO BE SEPARATED FROM EACHOTHER!!!!!!!!!
City Hall is available to almost anyone REGARDLESS of BELIEF STRUCTURE in many places.
This would remove some of the vehemence from the arguement!
He did not make the donation recently as CEO, he did it years ago PRIVATELY when he was a CTO and without any publicity. Only just recently his donation by check came to light because of some newspaper nosing around who the donors were.
No matter what the cause, all people can donate what they want to who they want as a function of the 1st amendment and they can have and voice their OWN opinion.
Firing someone or forcing them to resign like this is exactly the same as having NAZI's painting the Star of David and "Juden" on your front door and all the bad stuff that follows.
There is NO difference between these actions.
NO ONE has ANY right to make someone quit their job because he/she/It disagrees with their opinion. Lifestyles are simply another version of an opinion.
Being forced out of a job because ones believes in the traditional family model is as illegal (or pehaps more so) as being forced out because you are gay. Tit for Tat!
STOP trying to force your viewpoints on other people. If you want consequences keep opening your yap.
You are NOT free to hold anyone "accountable" that is unless you are either God or a Judge.
IF you feel you ARE allowed to hold people accountable dont be surprised if you experience some quid pro quo.
The American Idea of Free Speech INCLUDES HATE SPEECH ... Frigging IDIOT.
This is why the Klu Klux Klan is allowed BY LAW to march and PROTEST PUBLICLY!!!!!!!!
This is why there are RADICAL Muslim Clerics preaching their vesion of hate in many Mosques here.
I will defend the First Amendment til death!
EVERYONE GETS TO VOICE AN OPINION EVEN IF YOU DONT LIKE IT!!!!!!!
THAT is free speech, not the censored version in the EU.
Folks
If you are locked into old hardware, reliant on old software, this guy at MDGX has done some very interesting things with the software side by replacing .dll's and other files with newer ones and gaining new features and compatabilities. Seems like he could help some of the people with problemic systems. Try www.mdgx.com - His site helped an old machinist buddy of mine with and old mill and CADCAM that had to be on Win 95.
The NSA (and ALL the other alphabet agencies) was NEVER granted any powers to collect this infor without a warrant.
They did it anyway.
That is patently illegal.
They should all pay for it because they knew EVERYONE broke the law.
There is no law greater or that means more than the Constitution, in the USA.
Those who ignore it are nothing more than thieves, liars and politicians and they all deserve to be politically defrocked and deported
Correct, the real issue here is only one of communication as in Bluetooth versus Airplay.
Bluetooth needs a few buttons pushed to set up so you may need to read a manual; thus seemingly leaving "many" out of the loop. Airplay is generally configured to just connect which frankly may not be the safest method.
However, in any system that uses IOS OR ANDROID to run an auto's front end, (over QNX) I would rather have Android because eventually, more people will develop for it and it will be cheaper.
There is no reason why any Toyota would not support Bluetooth (it's cheap as chips) so why would Toyota jeopardize income from that many more possible Android users if Apple wasn't paying them???
If Apple pays them to lock out Android phones, there will be a lawsuit! Mark my words.
I agree NOT owning a "smartphone" is more intelligent and you should know I'm as far right as you can be.
Closed Apple solutions are for crybaby's that heaven forbid don't understand that you press a few buttons on the car radio after reading the manual in order to setup Bluetooth on your Android (or Apple phone). Then again you'd have to know how to read and push buttons.
My 2009 Ford Fusion can do it and no one needed an Apple only environment. My Yamaha reciever can do it too. My comment "luser" might as well mean LAZY.
Too many "overly sensitive" people in this world.
can't figure out complicated stuff like Bluetooth communications so they HAVE to be led by the ring in their nose.
I can't wait for a closed Apple ecosystem to hit the market so I can sue the ever lovin piss out of the car manufacturers for favoritism, restraint of trade, safety issues....
We just went through this with far less users and it was horrible. Get all users to do back up to .pst files right now. Also find a 3rd party vendor to do the NEW EXCHANGE SERVER. I would also literally kill your "a small group have grumbled long enough to ask for a review" with kindness.
You have an answer. Get EXCHANGE!!!!!!!
American POLITICIANS ( some of whom have been bought and paid for by the MPAA and RIAA)try and paint everything as a threat to national security.
There, fixed it for you.
You really should try reality, instead of stupidity; it just works better. By the way, who's going step in when you really need them to? Do you trust anyone else?
Stevie,
Exactly the problem...the first world no longer produces a level of soot that can be further mitigated. Guess who is upstream from that soot falling here in the USA and Canada?
China, Russia, India, that's who. Each of those countries electricity plants and foundries operate with literally NO EMISSION CONTROLS!!! Their people burn garbage in open pits, people burn coal and or fuel oil for heating.
Now honestly tell me which country needs to reduce it's emissions? If you say ANYTHING other than those three countries, you are not thinking rationally. The cost of emission reduction is exponentially greater the smaller the existing amount there is.
Let's not forget that we are in a period of increased volcanic activity both above ground (soot, and various IR absorbing gases) and below the oceans (heating ocean water, disturbing methane hydrate formations, changing water chemistry). Too many model discount their effects in favor of more popular blame monkeys (Man)
BTW, the migration of the so called wheatbelt has more to do with excess population draining the aquifers (Ogalalla in particular) that provide well water to those areas. The vast majority of the droughts are beginning to taper off (remeber all that rain washing away the problems?) so we should see it come back when there is more water to keep the fields green. Remember the dustbowl? That WAS MANMADE and was fixed with changes to simple farming practices in 10 years.
The fact remains that individual climate observations that take place on a cycle within the lifespan of a human being or two can not have any influence on global weather.
It is supremely arrogant to believe that humans have much effect at all considering that the amount of sunlight that hits the earth in one day exceeds our global energy consumption dozens of times.
The entire Climate debate is based upon a falsehood and no one is willing to admit it. Artificial price supports for "Green Energy" should be dropped immediately and the same money applied to finding a viable method of extracting North Sea natural gas. Politicians and Ecology types who supported renewables over common sense should pay for their ignorance from their own wallets.
It is a straightforward matter to build natural gas fired co-generation stations (at existing coal plants) that will provide both electricity and recover the waste exhaust stack heat and provide distributed hot water for heating institutions and portions of cities.
These cogens can approach 90% thermal efficiency and immense reductions in particulate pollution. CO2 will only be slightly reduced, but toxic smog causing SO and NO will be greatly reduced as compared to coal fired plants.
These cogens are also able to modulate or stage to accommodate the needs of existing renewable solar and wind generation. As the renewables lose power at night, the cogens can be brought on line much quicker than coal plants can.
Now you have a balanced solution that is more economical.
The only thing left is to create a legal penalty for incompetent politicians who favor votes over common sense and facts.
Maharg,
See, there you go... it's STILL okay for you to spout your opinions. No contradictions at all.
How did what I say force any view on you? All I did was call attention to the methodology of Political Correctness gone wild. Make any accusation you wish because there can be no defense against the crime of being non PC!
You just did a great job reiterating the issue I have, that anyone with any beef could claim they were being discriminated against. You probably think that NAMBLA have a right to force their opinions on the world as well.
Oh Woe is Me! You are a racist, homophobic, anti-semite for even bringing this up.
Seems you never got to the bottom of my post did you? A 21st century version of live and let live?
How about you and your ilk stop blaming everyone else for your own shortcomings? If your PC type would spend as much time keeping your own house in order as you do complaining they are being "discriminated" against, no one could criticize it.
Regardless of the consequences, perhaps it might be prudent to consider that forcing ones opinion on others is called bullying in some parts and many find little difference between that definition and the "accept us or be called homophobic" rhetoric from the gay community. Same thing goes for the rest of the politically correct bullshit I hear on a daily basis.
I do not have to accept the viewpoint of anyone and I willingly admit that you have exactly the same right as I. Be openly gay if you want to but please do not force your opinion that everyone should accept your behaviour.
Please stop telling everyone that we have to "atone for the sins of the fathers" because they were horrible people who werent "enlighted enough to understand homosexuality", or whatever psychobabble BS that you feel you were wronged by society for. What is past, is past. Grow up and quit blaming others for your own shortcomings, there will be no reparations or apologies for percieved injustices.
Here are the rules: I won't fuck with you and you don't fuck with me. I have the same right to my own opinions or beliefs as do you. Let's agree not to try to piss each other off by voicing those personal opinions/beliefs in a way that involves bullying or name calling, otherwise the gloves come off. Let's make a concious effort to avoid unneccessary confrontation and abuse. Give it a rest.
The trouble is that rent or housing should not cost more than 1/4 of your monthly income.
Available Rental Property is at an all time low and rents are at an all time high.
If people cannot afford to live near the area where they work then there will either be no one to work minimum wage or lower wage jobs, OR they will need to have MANDATED wage raises to be able to afford to live there OR they will have to base rents on peoples ability to pay.
NONE OF THESES SOLUTIONS ARE IDEAL!
Mr. Anderson,
Based on this price point, all apple has done is make yet another proprietary computer design that has a lock in for any expansion, replacement parts, etc etc. that does nothing to truly innovate the "Computer" itself. Anyone can purchase intel processors, appropriate ram and peripherals and make a Windows or Linux or God forbid force an Apple OS on a non Apple computer. I'm pretty sure some Windows machines can have up to 4 video cards in SLI with at least 3 video outputs per card and the latest cards will do 4k.
There are alot more "innovative" cases out there for sure
If you want to see real innovation, try here http://www.mofocases.com/ or here http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/pc_pr0n_25_new_kick-ass_case_mods#slide-18
About half way down on mofocases you may see something that looks somewhat similar though a bit more gaudy than the Apple Buttplug (TM)
Geez, seems like some misplaced anger against Dell... I have know several companies that have been grassed up by DoJ over resold equipment. Seems that no matter how much you tell people not to do something illegal they will do so gladly when there is enough profit in it.
I can agree that they are not as good as they could be but frankly they are better than most computer companies we deal with.
Dell did not sell the equipment to Syria, they sold it to a company in a "safe" country who abused their relationship with Dell. Therefore this is NOT DELL'S FAULT!
FWIW, my mom used to work for the US Army Corp of Engineers as ships quatermaster and later as a buyer onshore.
She once brought home a 200 page specification from the US Government for toilet paper that got into great detail on the number and size of wood splinters, bug parts and rat hairs that could be "allowed" in Federally Approved Toilet Paper. This is the absolute truth. It also got into detail on the amount of "grit" that the paper could contain. Now that is truly disturbing!
Needless to say, when she worked on board ship, she was directed by the crew to buy commercial toilet paper not the US Government Issue Tissue.
BTW Earl Grey, that's "Klingon's" although I assume that "Izla" paper is suitable for them. (Sure that's noy "Rizla" )
Perhaps using a hamster wheel made from local materials, connected to a somewhat larger version of a generator set, they could use pack animals or even people to create greater amounts of electricity.
Add cups or paddles to the outer rim of the hamsterwheel and you could have a reasonable waterwheel for power without animals.
However, I believe that the inventors were trying to come up with a replacement for an oil lamp typically used in a hut, NOT trying to come up with a major power generating system.
Give credit where it's due.
This is why junkyards should be required to check radiation levels in scrap as it is received. Many US Border crossings now have radiation detector tubes on each truck and car lane since the whole 9/11 thing but there is no law requiring scrappers to check and certify each load as it comes in to a junkyard.
The real problem is that once the radioactive material has been smelted in with the rest of the scrap, there is no way to remove the radiation except to let the half life decay process take care of the lethal dose.
That small container of pellets is now melted into TONS of contaminated scrap. Try safely disposing of that.
This used to happen quite often before there were Federal regulations regarding the cradle to grave disposal of radioactive sources. Small hometown Dentists, Doctors and Vets had portable XRay devices and the earliest ones used Cobalt sources instead of electric X Ray tubes. When the Doctor died, no one knew what that heavy thing in the basement was and they got scrapped.
I sold Nuclear Level Gauges for several years (they can "see" liquid through inches of solid steel) and the gentleman that was the radiation officer for the manufacturer told me that he knew of a lost source from a gauge (encapsulated Cesium 137) that was demolished out of a chemical plant that had been used as a boat anchor because it was heavy, had an eyehook on it and was the size of a coffee can. Thankfully the shutter spring had never rotted off it. They found it when it crossed a border in a boat trailer. Had the shutter spring failed, it would have inadvertently dosed hundreds of people. Had it been scrapped and smelted it would be a "small" nuclear disaster.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium-137 for interesting (and scary) details under incidents
Bitcoin is no different than cash in it's anonymity although Bitcoin can be transferred more easily. If China was truly concerned about terrrorism and money laundering, it should only look deeper at Hong Kong/Shanghei Banking Corporation and then in the mirror. Repeat, Rinse, Repeat...
Back and forth several million times might be enough for them to get the point.
Nothing of the kind,
The fact is that HP is "ADDICTED" to a culture of cutting employment as the article stated. This is a direct result of clowns like Carly Fiorina who ADMITTEDLY cuts any and all employment to increase value (artificially I might add).
They do this for "shareholders" LIKE CARL FUCKING ICAHN who can only whine, badger and complain until all businesses they invest in are a former shadow of themselves and 90% of the employees are on the dole just to artificially create temporary paper profit, profit that only lasts until the next shareholder meeting when it isn't good enough.
Real "investors" would want management to find more business so they don't have to lay off people. Perhaps make a better product or service to create a compelling need for more sales. Goog Managers would have the balls to say "I'm not going to let you fuck up a great company for sake of false profits".
In YOUR world, there would be no patience with the R&D cycle needed to come up with new product. The direct result is no more HP and the entrails will get sold to the highest bidder, thus killing the golden goose and devaluing ALL the shares.
THAT, is no way to operate a business!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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