In layoffs like this, the bottom is cut, but the top leaves because of the lack of security for the next wave. The only way to compensate for this is to raise the wages of the top 20percent, which immediately puts them on the hit list for the next round.
Either way the company can't get the experience and training they just lost back without incurring a huge expense. So its a tumble down the hill unless they find a way to make more products with a 300% profit margin to pay for the upper managements salaries, bonuses, and stock options.

The new Power8 core prices and performance are amazing, but they have no marketing genius to make the sales. Wonder where that went.
I do a lot of business with IBM.

I made a case a few weeks ago that this constant hiring of foreign nationals that are "Easy to manage and cheap". Means you just hired a crap ton of half baked yessmen. In 10 years at the company when the American perspective is gone, all you have left is to promote these folks with "experience". You end up with yes men all through the development and engineering teams, all very pleasant people mind you. In the end, just like with the Commador Amiga management, you get mediocre, not quite good enough, and definitely not innovative next versions or high demand items.
The idea that we will just hire experts in our speciality employee from somebody else, is just asinine, but after moving around quite a bit through this economy, I've discovered most managers either do not care or do not understand the core issues.

Russia isn't capitalist, its a kleptocracy. Please watch PBS frontline - Putin's Way.
Putin has no place to hide his stolen goods he might take the world down with him. He has littered the ground behind him with so many dead journalists and prosecutors. No real country would take him at this point. The FSB is holding the world hostage. The USA isn't guilt free in this but invading yet another country puts him on the boarder with NATO again. Stop him in Ukraine or in Poland, make a choice.
Russia has never been a Capitalist society. Read ‘Red Notice’ by Bill Browder, he is morally questionable but his book has some interesting info.
Saudi Arabia is trying to shut down fracking companies in the US so they can buy them cheap, or just put them out of business. They have a HUGE cash reserve and an average salary of $50K. Where Russia is much Lower like $10k, and Pensioners fully support anybody that keeps the vodka flowing.
Russia is already financially broken. In a large economy it takes a while for the pain from the tail to reach the brain. Its already too late for them.
Best the West can hope for at this point is to mitigate the failures, which Putin won't, because it would be asking him to kill himself.

Is it clear bias in computer gender?

or

Is it clear need for cheap programmers even if its a lot of hard work and they wont enjoy it?

or

Or perhaps if a girl wants into computers she just has to want into computer class and try?

or

Are we keeping minorities from getting into computer class? clearly this is the issue, right?

or

What are we solving here other than creating more programmers, that will have insecure jobs as they are ready to be replaced with foreign workers who will always work cheaper because they are more desperate than an American?

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Sigh, code.org showed such potential, but I think I forgot who funded it. :(

Repubs fear her for sure. I heard from one friend of mine that they want her to run so they can chase the "why did you check American Indian on your college forms?!" Which in the late 70's meant college discount and not illegal I believe.
I'm waiting for someone to look under the rug on farm subsidies, but that's probably a pipe dream also.
Or actually tax repatriated money at a reasonable rate, no loopholes.
Or at least someone put back in the laws that stop multiple news agencies being owned by the same company/person in the same area. :(

Are you telling me a politician lied, stood on a podium and actually lied, to get that job? Noooo..... Perhaps he was just too ignorant to understand the problem?

2 External HDs and Blue Ray/dvd disks.
You keep one HD, you get other HD to your mom/bro/close friend to store for you.
Encrypt all data as files, not hd encrypt.
Put tool used to encrypt data on disk with data blobs.
Remember your own password/keys, don't put those on the drives.
Things that don't change like pictures also go on Blue ray or DVD in case grandma wants to see them.
I also have close family friends we exchange family picture backups.
Update at least twice a year if possible.

1 house fire and you lose everything so keep that in mind. Fireproof safe would be nice but I do not think the heat would leave much working either way.
Cloud services only work as long as you pay for them and someone knows where to find them if your hit by the plane that crashed into your house.

Amazing Modded to 0 right away with no response, very nice!!!

http://news.firedoglake.com/20...
The provision protects genetically modified seeds from litigation in the face of health risks and has thus been dubbed the “Monsanto Protection Act” by activists who oppose the biotech giant. President Barack Obama signed the spending bill, including the provision, into law on Tuesday
Since the act’s passing, more than 250,000 people have signed a petition opposing the provision and a rally, consisting largely of farmers organized by the Food Democracy Now network, protested outside the White House Wednesday. Not only has anger been directed at the Monsanto Protection Act’s content, but the way in which the provision was passed through Congress without appropriate review by the Agricultural or Judiciary Committees. The biotech rider instead was introduced anonymously as the larger bill progressed — little wonder food activists are accusing lobbyists and Congress members of backroom dealings.

Quick someone send it the command to roll over!!

I've recently seen this same mistake at much larger company. Generally having checks and accept prompts in scripts when deleting anything, but especially when deleting recursively, is a good thing. Its one of the first things I expect a level 1 Admin to make a mistake on, and later never do again.
Its also a good plan to make sure your backup drives unmount after the backups. Leaving them mounted is asking for trouble. Actually online backups are a bad idea anyway but its cheap so we do it.

What? I didn't say that at all(troll bait?). Odd perhaps you should reread the post. The whole point is, why would I care what you encrypt your data with if I can just get the private part (key, csr, crt,pem,Password,whatever you want to call it today) your using to encrypt the conversation with? I would even encourage the use of said product because I am guaranteed a way to read it?

Perhaps someone here could come up with an automate methodology to put these folks on the ropes? How about multiple answers, approach it from many directions. Crowd fund, kickstart, background checking, fact checking, and other things? There is this strange aversion to unions after decades of paid for ad campaigns against them, but you all act like helpless children vs. the technology geniuses you are!@! Find a solution, implement the solution, solve the problem. These half baked "can't hold a job doing anything else" politicians are on the offensive, how about you all get offensive instead of whining like you are still in elementary school.

I've been wondering what happens if my SSL key signer received a FISA gag order and request for my private keys, how would I know?
Do you know?

I'm suggesting they also teach how to selfsign their certificates and understand how this whole process works.
If I were trying to monitor the internet's HTTPS/SSL traffic i'd go after those private keys soon as possible, especially since there is this belief that your safe if you have a signed pem key for your host/https/tls/etc..

Oracle's sales teams do this all the time to business. Selling crap to people they really don't need has made many a company rich beyond reason. The cure for this is public college education, everyone would be smarter then. Preferably in hard sciences.

How about instead of tearing things down and whining, you love your country enough to help make something work.

"The ACA gathers money from those like myself who never get sick."
You should understand at some point you will be sick, at that point in your life you won't care about anything else other than getting better or dieing.

Believing you will never get sick is something that should be pondered.

Or you could say based on the actual court monopoly findings that MS put out libraries that were intentionally made or left broken so their primary competitors would fail to make a good product that requires them to work on windows 3.1. Please re-read the MS monopoly findings. You might learn more about why some products died.
Or read Amiga magazines article from the 90's where a Phd Amiga Dev found 2 loops, in the OS that MS was paid to create, that did nothing but slow the whole thing down by about 50%.
Or about DR DOS
Or about many other things that made it impossible to compete when the fox had the keys to the hen house gates.

Amazon pissed off a lot of retailers, or you could say ALL of the retailers. They have now pissed off all of the mobile manufacturers.
You might want to look at what happened when Pepsi went from a vendor to Fast food restaurants to direct competitor, and how those chains promptly stopped supplying Pepsi for their customers.
Amazon has now pissed off all the makers of everything really and now have enemies on every front. Not sure what they were thinking.