Posts by aerogems

IBM sued again for alleged discrimination – this time against White males

Re: Sets race-relations back sixty years

You are the very personification of someone who's all hat and no cattle.

Re: he was "vocal about his opposition" to Red Hat's DEI policies

I'll take the downvotes without comment as a yes.

Re: he was "vocal about his opposition" to Red Hat's DEI policies

Did this article get posted to The Daily Stormer or some other white nationalist/pro-fascism site or something? I wouldn't expect El Reg to really be worth the effort for a troll farm, and of course we all expect our little jailbird Jellied Vatnick Eel to stalk everyone who's ever twat shamed him in the past and downvote every single post they make, but the number of people who seem ready to cream their pants at the idea of a utopia for white people is a lot higher than you typically find on a tech oriented site, which cater more to a highly educated demographic. At least a bachelors level education, along with a fair bit of additional self-taught learning, which also requires a lot of analytical skills. That in turn usually means that the facile reasoning and solutions offered by conservative pundits don't really have a lot of appeal because it doesn't take more than a half-second of thought to realize they wouldn't ever work.

So, I'm left wondering where it is you all came here from.

Re: Reason for firing

At an old job there was an engineer who just couldn't read the room. All day, every day, he'd be going on and on about how "at my old company, we did it this way and it was so much better!" Don't get me wrong, I'm all for the idea of continuous improvement, and he wasn't a bad guy, but instead of putting together a proposal to demonstrate how this method would be better, he just kept harping to people who have no agency to make those kinds of changes. So, eventually, when the company was conducting layoffs, he was the only engineer laid off, and no doubt it was just a convenient excuse because he'd been pissing off pretty much everyone around him.

No doubt the people at Red Hat who had to work with the fuckwit at the center of this story are glad to be rid of him. Another job I had in the past involved a manager who was just a very difficult person to like. I could just say to customers, "I work for <Person>" and would instantly get this "Oh you poor bastard" look. Every time they went on vacation for a couple of days, the entire mood of the office changed. When the person was in the office it was very somber and no one talked to anyone else. When they were on vacation, everyone was out socializing with one another and it felt like you should break out the Hawaiian shirts and khaki shorts. I imagine that's what things were like for people when they learned this fuckwit had been fired.

Re: Alternate headline

Stings a little, doesn't it?

We really need a new term for these people, because incel could apply to a lot of people who aren't complete fuckwits. Maybe someone had an accident and lost their testicles. Maybe a woman was raped, like Ms. Carrol, and was so traumatized by the event it has made it impossible for them to have sex. Maybe someone has an STD/STI and doesn't want to spread it.

Besides, the fuckwits like those we see on the comments section today are not really involuntarily celibate, they're very much making a conscious choice to act in a way that will ensure they turn off prospective romantic partners. However, at the same time, they're not exactly voluntarily celibate, like a priest who actually takes that vow seriously. So, a new term needs to be coined. You could say "Trump supporter" but it's not a phenomenon limited to just the US.

Re: Oh for fecks sake

Actually, it is. If you can show that you were treated differently because you were white or male, that is absolutely a protected class. It's just a lot harder to do when most companies are predominately white and male.

Re: I have seen this before

You just described virtually every Trump voter in America. It's not because they dropped out of high school and are unwilling to learn new skills, it's because of those damn Mexicans coming over the border illegally that they've been out of work for years! And so on and so forth. Whatever the problem, it's always someone else's fault. They lack the self-awareness to think that maybe, just maybe, if they consistently find themselves at the center of a shit tornado, maybe it's of their own doing.

The downvotes without any kind of accompanying rebuttal this post gets will just show how many such people are lurking here. The person at the center of this story was almost without question an obnoxious asshole and everyone who had to work with him is likely glad he's gone. Now they're being used as a pawn to further someone's white nationalist agenda.

Re: he was "vocal about his opposition" to Red Hat's DEI policies

And lets not forget that the google people were protesting in support of an actual named terrorist group rather than someone you personally just dislike in this case.

Another twofer. First, you make the same facile argument as calling someone antisemitic because they disagree with actions of the Israeli government by falsely equating regular everyday Palestinian citizens with Hamas members. Second, you show you know nothing about the recent history of Gaza. There haven't been elections in Gaza for something like 20 years. A lot of the people suffering right now never voted for Hamas leadership, they may not have even been born yet, nor are they a member of Hamas. Something anyone who's bothered to look into this whole situation even a tiny bit beyond just listening to a few talking heads on cable news, would have quickly learned.

What Hamas did is unforgiveable, but it also doesn't excuse the genocide being committed. Given the history of Israel, you'd think they'd be a bit more sensitive to things like that.

Re: he was "vocal about his opposition" to Red Hat's DEI policies

And once again, our precious little snowflakes can't offer up any kind of rebuttal, intelligent or otherwise, so just act like the cowardly little bitches we all know they are, and downvote.

I sort of think the problem is a little too much self-medicating.

You can dress your racist ideology up in pseudo-intellectual babble, but it doesn't change the core racism of your message.

As a white person in the US, I am virtually guaranteed never to be pulled over by a cop unless I really do something strange on the road. If I buy something in a store, and say I don't need a bag, I'm not going to be accused of shoplifting. By simple virtue of having a WASPy name, I am more likely to get interviews for jobs compared to someone with a more traditional black name. I have benefitted in many ways throughout my life, and for much of it I was completely oblivious because that's just the way things had always been. After I moved out of my predominately white home state and started being exposed to people of different backgrounds, I started to realize just how good I had it relative to these people. It doesn't mean I'm ashamed to be white, that's just another attempt by racist talking heads on cable news networks to distract people. It means that I recognize I've been advantaged in many aspects of my life relative to others, simply because my skin is pale. I then go a bit further and actively promote a more perfect society where this shit doesn't happen. People should only be pulled over if there's some kind of moving violation. People shouldn't need to prove in multiple ways that they legally purchased something at a store. People should be hired for jobs based on their qualifications first, and then maybe as a distant second, whether their personality seems like a good "fit" for the company. Everything else should be tossed in the trash.

Putting the messanger aside for a moment, what is said about DEI (which is morphing into Bridge) and it being anti white male is correct. Disney is also being done for this as well.

Uh, no, that's not what it's about. It's about trying to eliminate racial bias in employment decisions, including hiring, firing, promoting, etc. Since white people have been unfairly stacking the deck in their own favor for a few centuries, it naturally means that more non-white people will be hired, promoted, and what have you. The point of DEI is so that, for example, if you live in an area that is say 30% white, 30% black, 30% south asian, and 10% miscellaneous, the composition of any given company's workforce should be roughly in line with the demographics of the surrounding area. If you have a company where 90% of the employees are white, but only about 30% of the surrounding community is white, that means that race is being given undue consideration when deciding who to hire.

If you're part of the privileged group that is now suddenly getting a taste for what it's been like for everyone else the past few centuries, well, remember that feeling and work to create a better world where no one has to experience it ever again.

Re: he was "vocal about his opposition" to Red Hat's DEI policies

Nice false equivalency.

Google employees were protesting the killing and starving of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the part Google played in it by selling services to the Israeli military. The fuckwit in this piece is working with a Nazi in an attempt to use the courts to legalize racism. I'd bet everything you own that the fuckwit in this piece deliberately set out to get himself fired just so he could file this lawsuit. If you can't understand the difference between those two scenarios, you may well be a clinical sociopath.

Re: Do you hear that noise?

Wow, a twofer. You not only demonstrated you don't know what DEI programs are about, but you proved the OP's point in the process. I'd say well done, but I thought you people were against the idea of rewarding failure.

That's scary. I seem to have hit a little too close to home for at least six people. If you're upset by the idea that your ideology mirrors that of the Nazis, here's a free tip: Do something about it. Instead of celebrating your ignorance, try embracing education.

Edit: I see at least one person is doubling down on celebrating their ignorance. Where's the exit to this timeline? I want to find one where logic and reason still matter and stupidity isn't seen as a virtue.

I suppose it is getting to be election time and Trump and his surrogates have already started ramping up laying the groundwork for a second go at "the election was stolen" with their rhetoric... so, it really shouldn't be surprising that the more gullible amongst the populace start echoing the same sentiments and finding new and "creative" ways to apply the conspiracy theory. I mean, far be it for pesky things like facts and reason get in the way. Because the idea that I just sit around all day making sock puppet accounts on a trivial site like El Reg, and then cycle through them just to downvote people I don't agree with makes so much more sense than there are thousands of people visiting this site over the course of a given day and they are twat shaming people like you. You are in a cult. Seek professional help.

If you associate with Nazis, take money from Nazis, and agree with Nazi ideology... guess what? You are a Nazi.

It's rather subtle really. Everything. The paranoia, the unprovoked pejoratives, and comments completely divorced from objective reality.

He's a literal Jewish Nazi. His family barely escaped the holocaust, he has like an uncle who's a rabbi, but he seems to think that Hitler was a swell guy who had some interesting ideas on how to treat fellow human beings.

Re: Sets race-relations back sixty years

Welcome, visitor from another reality. Try not to make this one like the shithole you came from. kthxbye.

For the two people (at time of posting) who downvoted, I accept your critique. Clearly I should have said they should cover the lawsuit papers in napalm, light them on fire, and shove them up their ass. That is totally my fault, and I accept full responsibility for it. I'm disappointed in those of you who thought gasoline was sufficient. Shame!

Re: he was "vocal about his opposition" to Red Hat's DEI policies

Given he not only attracted the attention of Stephen Miller, but took money from him, I'd say that there's about a 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% chance this whole thing was premeditated and he deliberately set out to get fired for "protesting" the policy change.

IANAL, and I feel like I need a shower for defending IBM on a discrimination lawsuit, but if their lawyers can establish during discovery that there was contact between this epic douchenozzle and The Jewish Nazi before he was fired, they probably stand a pretty good chance of getting the case dismissed and probably have decent grounds to countersue for vexatious litigation or some such.

Well, you're clearly not from this timeline and/or reality based on your comments, so I'm just curious as to which one you're from.

What alternate timeline are you visiting from? Sounds like a real shithole, no wonder you left.

As far as I'm concerned, anyone who takes money from Stephen Miller can fuck all the way off and back again. Then they can take the paper their lawsuit was written on, douse the thing in gasoline, light it on fire, and shove it up their ass. This is just a political stunt for Miller to push his Nazi white nationalist agenda. The somewhat amusing thing is that since this is being filed in Idaho, there's only the barest of minimums in the way of worker protections, so this guy is likely going to be hoist by his own petard. Shit like this is a waste of time and resources and detracts from people who have actually been harmed, and yes. sometimes they're white, just not nearly as often as everyone else.

Besides, it wasn't that long ago that people like Stephen Miller and his patsy where bemoaning "activist judges" which is now precisely what they're looking for. They're trying to use the courts to legalize racism.

SpaceX set to literally rock Florida with more and bigger Starship launches

I mean, I know that with getting things into certain orbits there's only so many places you can launch from, but... Florida's set to be literally under water in the not too distant future. It's already just a giant sandbar. There's a lot of empty* desert space along similar latitudes in shitholes like Texas and Arizona. It's not like they'd build the launch facility near the gulf anyway, so they should be able to stay well out of reach of what rising ocean levels will subsume.

Anyway, at the rate Xitler, and others who think like him, seem intent on destroying this planet, we may need to find another one ASAP assuming we want the human race to be able to continue beyond another 100-years or so.

* Of humans anyway

German plod defend Tesla gigafactory from eco-warriors

Re: Could someone please explain ?

Back to your cell, inmate.

Hey look! Over there! A bear!

Imagine that... A CEO tossing out a conspiracy theory about a rival in an attempt to shift focus away from their own numerous failings both as a person and a company executive.

I mean, as I recall, a number of people resigned or were fired at VW over the emissions cheating scandal and no doubt the company is still getting the aggressive prostate exam treatment from regulators all over the world. If Xitler wants to fall on his sword (please let it be literally) for Tesla factories violating California air regulations, the violations of California and US labor laws, and just being a general twat, maybe we can think about rehabbing his image a little... posthumously.

Hey, Reddit. Quick question. All those clicks on my ads. Were they actually real?

Re: Obligatory.

I call them the reason I have uBlock Origin installed on my browser.

I could see being willing to pay a rate of X for just displaying the ad on a sub where there's a good chance of people being interesting in your product/service see it, and then paying a rate of Y for confirmed clicks. Maybe even a rate of Z* if you can confirm that the person actually bought your good/service after seeing the ad on a Reddit sub. Of course if the company can't, or won't, cough up info on demand so I can audit those "confirmed" clicks my answer is going to be that they'll get rate X for them and be glad for it or else they can get nothing.

* X < Y < Z

Re: Oracle??

What about strange planetary alignments beaming bozo rays?

Tesla accused of union buster bluster at Buffalo factory

Re: Meanwhile at SpaceX

You forgot

(engineer 1) That must be why I've been able to get my work done lately.

Re: Like home

He will soon be tossing people from third floor windows.

If he knows what's good for him, he won't cut in on Putin's action.

Re: break areas

Almost without question. This is a manbaby who is known to rage fire people for the "sin" of simply crossing into his line of sight when he's in a bad mood.

Minor correction: It gets in the way of profits this quarter which means their bonus may be at risk, so CEOs hate unions. However, as a lot of Europe has shown, the relationship between management and unions doesn't have to be an adversarial one. They can coexist peacefully and have a good working relationship that is mutually beneficial. It's just that those benefits are more of a Q4 sort of thing, and it may well be time for CEOs and board members everywhere to play musical chairs and shuffle the deck so they all wind up at different companies.

Re: Why bosses abhor unions

It's sort of like Obamacare. You ask people if they support the individual aspects of unions (can only be fired for cause, better pay, an advocate if you're accused of doing anything wrong) and virtually everyone will say they support all those things. Then you say, "Well those are all things unions provide" and suddenly they get confused, then angry because you confused them.

So let's see...

* Disastrous Cybertruck launch

* Slowing demand

* Multiple lawsuits alleging racial discrimination

* A CEO who's barely even a part-time employee

* A CEO who is spending most of his time being a right-wing troll on social media and putting customers off the brand

* Multiple government agencies investigating various company actions

* Various other things I don't have the time or energy to list individually

Yeah, that's totally worth a $56bn pay package.

Any actually independent board of directors would have kicked this fuckwit to the curb ages ago. I cannot fathom why shareholders haven't revolted already and demanded Xitler's head on a platter. Calling for new elections for board members if they failed to deliver. Tesla is never going to be able to match the major auto makers. It's just not going to happen. They could, however, potentially carve out a small, but profitable, niche as a luxury EV brand. They just need to dump their zero CEO and hire themselves a hero who can actually save the company from either the oblivion of bankruptcy or becoming just one more brand in the stable of one of the major auto makers like so many other car manufacturers before them.

Ex-White House election threat hunter weighs in on what to expect in November

Re: Worry about AI (so you don't worry about state sponsored

Yes, I'm sure Trump fondled Ivanka plenty when she was a kid. He still clearly wishes he could have sex with her as he talks about it all the time. I didn't know about the hair sniffing, though it frankly doesn't really surprise me. Still not sure what that has to do with anything though.

Re: Worry about AI (so you don't worry about state sponsored

They're just repeating whatever they heard on Fox News or some similar outlet.

Re: Worry about AI (so you don't worry about state sponsored

If I've said it once, I've said it upteen billion times... don't bring facts and logic to a simp fight.

So all the hispanics conservatives are convinced are being bussed in to vote illegally, despite zero evidence, are AI robots or something? Maybe the busses are robotaxis?

Microsoft's Brad Smith summoned by Homeland Security committee over 'cascade' of infosec failures

Oh I'm sure. The committee is no doubt comprised of people who can barely find the on switch to a computer with a map and a flashlight/torch, and are so far out of their depth it'd be like trying to explain particle physics to an amoeba. Just more political theater. Remind me again why we pay these idiots? Most of them are there just to line up a cushy job as a contributor on some cable news network or a do-nothing job at a think tank where they just put out a "research" paper that basically just regurgitates whatever the RNC/DNC talking points are so someone can hold it up as "proof" that this or that policy is a good idea.

I don't have a perfect solution to this problem, but I definitely think public funding for campaigns would go a long ways to helping address the worst abuses. At least then they can focus on doing the people's business instead of constant fundraising.

I'd be all for this if it were an actual serious effort to understand what went wrong and how to correct it. However, it'll just be another effort at grandstanding and putting on a show for the cameras. At the end of the day, nothing will have changed.

Oracle ULA audits are a license to bill

Corporate Mafia

Actually, that's probably not fair. The mafia could likely learn a few lessons from Oracle on how to shake people down.

US faith-based healthcare org Ascension says 'cybersecurity event' disrupted clinical ops

A part of me hopes that one day some asshole responsible for targeting healthcare institutions with these kinds of things, winds up in the ER and is unable to be treated because the hospital is crippled by some kind of malware. The only real problem with that scenario is that it would mean a lot of other people would end up suffering as well.

Investment analyst accuses Palantir of AI washing

Re: How did it come to this :o

There's a caveat large enough to sail the entire US Navy through, but these things can be used to help track down various ne'er do wells. More often, however, they seem to be used by authoritarian regimes to spy on journalists and anyone else they see as an actual or potential agitator for change. You also have LEOs using it to spy on their ex-romantic partners, their new romantic partners, sometimes even their new romantic partners... the list of abuses goes on for some time.

You mean a CEO wading into culture war bullshit at pretty much the same time they reported disappointing earnings wasn't a rather transparent attempt to shift focus away from said disappointing earnings? I'm shocked!

Amazon and Epson accuse a bunch of traders of selling knockoff print ink

Who do they think they are!?

Only the printer makers get to gouge customers by charging rates that would make a mafia loan shark blush for replacement ink!

This reminds me of the scene from The Simpsons where an FBI agent is running down the hall and you see signs on doors like "Joint Terrorism Taskforce" and "Hostage Rescue" then there's this big set of double doors with "Movie Piracy" on it. A not so subtle hint that maybe there's a problem with the distribution of resources.

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Flexing financial muscles, Arm aims to elbow into Windows PC market

It'll depend on how Microsoft implements it, but when Apple did Rosetta 2 it was done with a pretty minimal performance hit, though they're vertically integrated from the silicon to the API, so they could custom tailor things in ways MS probably can't. For the most part, it should just be a simple recompile assuming developer stuck to published APIs and any supporting libs have ARM versions. If it's a .NET app it probably doesn't require anything on the part of the developer at all. I guess if you use SMID stuff you'll have to rewrite all that, but it should be pretty quick and relatively painless for most apps.