mm so dual 18 core xeons 64 GB to 96GB primary memory and 24-48 Tb of spinning disk I think not

you wont find virtualisation in any big HPC or Hadoop cluster - its fast xenon's tons of ram and more or less DASD plus possibly a lot of pro graphics cards used as compute models and that not counting the radically different networking designs/tech used in clusters

Sorry that's how civil law works if a director of a company Is deemed not fit and proper by the regulators that's it. break securities laws and you can be bared for a period or even life - the company's have admitted the breach of the anti trust law already.

MM do you really want old school Industrial relations could make hitting key deployment dates interesting sorry boss my rsi is playing up something chronic oh what that a fat brown envelope in my lunch box I suddenly feel much better :-)

I have a mate who now works in HR for a FSTE 100 company who used to work in heavy industry and he commented even the tea boy got a grand bung - this was when the average salary was around 2k.

If you lose a civil case you can end up losing your job for example I know of an accountant who got convicted of fare dodging and was sacked because the employer could no longer trust them with money an non accountant might have got away with a final written warning.

The FCC and Financial regulators can ban you for life from working in that industry as can the AMA strike off a Doctor for malpractice

Officers of companies are liable just remove there ability to sit on a board of a company - then the share holders go of sorry Eric you are banned from being a board member you have made your self unemployable hers your statutory redundancy and thanks for all your work - oh and those un vested stock options we will have those back thank you

no surly h1b's are handed out on merit

Your forgetting that lawyers have a pre entry closed shop and look after themselves first

The hr and ceo's directors of the company's to be named as "not fit and proper persons" to be board members of company's - ie they are legally disbarred from holding any senior position for say 10 years. Also the HR directors should be expelled from the HR professional body.

why is this cost of a bad hire always quoted any real figures. FFS the USA is mostly at will and its trivially easy to fire people for being crap especially if it s obvious early on

does Slashdot need irony and sarcasm categorys

Non competes being unenforceable is one its notable that all the tech areas in the USA are in more "liberal" area's in terms of employment laws

I once had a recentish graduate comment oh 3Db isn't much :-) Its more than Double BTW!

not that many most jobs are CRUD type applications