On the point of incompetent management. The London Underground is spread out all over London. Workers are spread out all over London. It would take hundreds of supervisors running around station to station all day checking on people to ensure they are actually there doing their job. The London Underground is not a factory floor.
I know a few people who would like to work for you, knowing that just being there is more important than actually doing anything.
Hourly wage earners have their hours tracked world over. It is human nature to want to screw the system. This system just happens to be much harder to screw.
Not really... if workers realize that it is more important to clock in and out at the appropriate time than to do a good job, then that is probably what you are going to get. So it might be harder to appear to be there when you aren't, but it doesn't mean the system won't be screwed. Especially if they don't like it. I'm not saying it's right, but people who want to screw the system will, and this does nothing to stop that.
Just because someone is magically efficient doesn't mean they get to knock off an hour early and have a friend sign them out.
Why not? Are they paying for time? Or clean tubes? Is the guy that's there all day, maybe doing a shitty job, more valuable than the guy who gets the job done quickly?
The job being done well is the metric that needs to be evaluated, not the time spent hanging out at work. It's just easier to evaluate numbers (the computer said everyone was there all day), than to evaluate the actual job. Hey, I checked it out, and the tubes are clean.
Except that they've already confirmed that they're not storing your actual fingerprint.
Yes, and we also know the NSA isn't spying on anyone, and certainly not gathering any information on American citizens... blah blah blah... they told us so.
If a spy doesn't want to take too much risk, he can always abort mission and send the bluprints of a vacuum cleaner back to headquarters instead. Nobody will figure out what it means.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's vacuum cleaner blueprints?
I'll take the pirate stuff any day of the week, because the groups that do it are small enough that reputation matters; It's their only currency.
Yeah, because the *reputation* of the software companies doesn't matter at all. (roll eyes)
Obviously you aren't familiar with EA.
Hacking websites = terrorism now ?
See the danger of such a slippery slope ? The government can't see it. They're dead serious. Hacking websites = terrorism. It boggles the mind.
Frankly, what the U.S. government does on a daily basis is far more terrifying than anything some script kiddies hijacking DNS entries could do.
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This week it's hacking a website.
Next week it's: "You broke a website's TOS! Terrorist! Off to Gitmo with you!"
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
