MagicWishMonkey

The whole point is that sort of thing shouldn't be necessary. The government shouldn't have the authority to demand you hand over the contents of your phone/laptop without reasonable suspicion in the first place.

The point is guys like Musk need people like us to work and pay taxes to keep the system humming along.

It's pretty neat that the Democrats and Republicans have no problem cooperating when it comes to screwing the American people.

FCC rulings can be overruled via congress or by the FCC itself in the future.

It takes an act of God to overturn a treaty.

I've never seen it happen, either, which is why I tend to jump ship every 12-24 months.

I really don't understand why companies are so nonchalant about employee retention.

The last time this happened to me (in 2011) I was with one of the big consulting firms and the guy in charge of recruiting put up notices everywhere with a job listing for my current position except with a 5-10% higher salary.

That being said, if I wasn't privy to this information it wouldn't take much to find out what the other people on my team are making. I don't think I've ever worked in an environment where salaries were considered top secret information.

So a potential employer can verify your current salary through the government? That's terrible. I don't think employers have that ability here in the states, but I could be wrong.

If your company doesn't appreciate enough to pay you market rate unless you explicitly ask for it, you're better off finding a different employer.

That's pretty ridiculous. I guess I don't feel bad about being less than honest when asked by a potential employer about my current salary. It's really none of their business.

He does what I did in the same situation, spend 5 minutes finding a new job before turning in his 2 week notice.

I don't do the "lets re-negotiate my salary" bit, it's up to my employer to keep me at or above market rate for my skills, I shouldn't have to ask for it.

It would be one thing if the salary was substantially higher than what you can get elsewhere, but it's not. The other perks sound really nice, but not nice enough to deal with the headache of interviewing there.

Eeking out an extra (potential) 2 years in exchange for the mental and physical torture of chemotherapy is not worthwhile for some people, particularly the elderly.

"If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with banknotes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coalmines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again (the right to do so being obtained, of course, by tendering for leases of the note-bearing territory), there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of the repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth also, would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is. It would, indeed, be more sensible to build houses and the like; but if there are political and practical difficulties in the way of this, the above would be better than nothing." - John Maynard Keynes

The point of the article is that no one knows what to do about it, and maybe we should start thinking ahead to plan for crises before they occur.

The part that really pissed me off was how they sent emails through my gmail account. They essentially hijacked my account to spam people.

weather != climate

I had no idea that I granted them permission to send email through my account, I thought I had restricted them to the address book. I made a mistake.

LinkedIn screwed me over real good a few weeks back.

They sent me an email saying "There are 108 people you might want to connect with", so I click on view all and it shows a giant list of people with checkmarks by their names. Nice. I uncheck all of them, and scroll through checking a few folks who I want to network with (5 people in total). Click next, it takes me to a screen showing the 5 people and the banner clearly says "Send connection requests to these 5 people?". I click next.

The next screen says "Congratulations, we've sent connection requests to 300 people.". What the flying fuck? Ok, well that's a bummer but oh well, probably just a bug in their system. Then my inbox starts getting spammed with "I'm out of the office right now blah blah blah" from people who I don't even know who they are.

The assholes sent 300 people linkedin connection requests through my own personal gmail account. With zero warning whatsoever. That really pisses me off.

I like LinkedIn, it's a great networking tool, but they really need to stop doing this shit. Something similar happened a few years ago, but they only spammed people in my address book who were already members and the emails were sent by LinkedIn, not through my gmail account.

I've revoked LinkedIn's access to my gmail account. I regret ever enabling it in the first place. I recommend you do the same.

For those who don't know how: https://www.google.com/settings/security (click the view all button next to Apps and Websites).

My company relocated to San Fran a few months ago, I had to quit because moving there from Dallas made no financial sense.

Even with a massive raise my monthly savings would be cut in half (or more), and spending in excess of a million dollars on a home is way too risky (look at all the people who went upside down during the last recession). Barring something incredibly unlikely, such as the equity I own actually being worth something, I would likely have to add an extra 10 years or more to my expected retirement age if I chose to live and work out there.

Political capital is a finite resource.

If you don't know the password to your system it can't be forced out of you.

For example, if you have a password algorithm that takes an input value (lets say a website name) and a seed that is stored on your system somewhere (that you don't have memorized), concats them together and then hashes the result to generate the password, the rubber hose attackers would to both beat the input value out of you and have physical access to the machine your seed is stored on to recover the password.

That's a bummer, it would be worth buying a new iMac for the screen alone.

Woah, do you know if this works with the new retina display iMacs?

It would be neat if they could figure out a way to let you use an iMac screen as a secondary monitor for a mbp.

Collisions aren't a concern unless you're hashing trillions of records. It's not really a concern for the vast majority of software projects.

Are collisions really that much of a concern (other than for security reasons)? IIRC they are still incredibly rare even with older hashing algorithms like MD5.

Why do you say they didn't care to use a preexisting algorithm? They claim to be using industry standard encryption, that means they are using existing algorithms that have been vetted and proven to be safe (if properly implemented).

If Microsoft is willing to spend millions of dollars and take a huge PR hit to sue you, it's safe to assume that whatever you've built is successful/popular enough to make you very a wealthy man.

At that point, who cares?

These businesses benefit greatly from our strong economy/infrastructure/judicial system, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect them to favor American workers over foreigners. There's nothing racist about that.

I don't have a problem with a company hiring foreign labor, but I do think there should be strict limitations as long as our unemployment rate is >2-3%.

Most of the large bay area tech companies have offices overseas with plenty of foreign employees. They are not 100% dependent on the local workforce.