If Panda tasted good, they'd never go extinct.
Cows, chickens, and pre-bacon will be around until humans are extinct!

There is a jerk like this at the local grocery store every weekend selling cheap rips of current movies out of a shopping cart right under the No Soliciting and No Loitering sign. No one else cares because, well it's, Miami, hardly anyone speaks english at that store (much to my annoyance) or cares much about anything.

Personal use is one thing, outright selling pirated discs is another.

P.S.
MPAA, I hate you. Please burn and die.

But, if you are by chance reading, this jerk operates at the Publix on sw 132 and 8th street during weekends. Throw away the key.

A demand is just that, a demand, an insistent request, to be agreed upon or rejected.

If one hypothetically believes that IE provides a benefit or some sort of cost savings to their business, why should the people one hires to work with it simply demand it be changed.

No, instead, come up with reasonable presentation and metrics showing the cost benefits to switching out. Helping a person to see a different point of view is often better in the long run than showing a different view down their throat.

Don't need a lousy stinking union for that.

In addition to changing platform, also remember that there are costs in retraining personnel who are not developers and can barely function with computers as it is, the costs of IT changing system settings, OS policies, machine images, etc. The savings of hours for a team of developers dealing IE incompatibilities, compared to the hours of other employees adapting to the change may outweigh the benefits in cost analysis. Esp when devs are typically salary, and others hourly, a project may take a bit longer for devs, but the hours spent retraining staff is more expensive.

Communicate and have compelling fiscal reasons, don't dictate and threaten stoppage. We are nerds. The rest of employees typically don't like us to begin with bc we constantly tell them how stupid they are for installing virus on their own machines or that they can't email that 300 meg power point with video and music and aren't as empathetic to a a nerd work stoppage.

Threepio said it best...

We're Doomed!

Someone who has exp with multiple versions of windows servers. 2000 is a good cutoff point. They should understand Active Directory. Thoroughly. If doing anything web based, know about asp and .net configurations, as well as how to use the new (awful) IIS manager. If storing dll components for software over the network (including aforementioned web based stuff), they should know about permissions hassles of trusting policies from network drives.

Exchange and or MS SQL experience is also a plus, but only if the windows boxes will be running them.

Everything back in the days prior to 1.4 was a nightmare. Unfortunately, that is were most criticisms of java originated. Quite a few enterprise apps i've been forced to use have never been recompiled since 1.3 and are very temper-mental, usually requiring an older JVM and swing was horrid back then. Java really came into it's stride IMO once it hit 1.5. Since then, most (not all) complaints about performance, ui performance, and a lot of other things are moot, but people still like to kick those cans down the road. It'll never be as fast as c++, but it's pretty damn fast in the modern era.

A decent enough idea to be sure, but it must be carried forward to conclusion. Not only could these be detected by a second bot account, the spammer is still eating up your resources, whether it be disk space or processing cycles to detect viewing by bot accounts. Even if legit users never see the spam, the spammer half wins by making your system work harder to filter them out.

Oh I'm not deriding at all. Just pointing out that teachers make damn good money for the hours they actually work.

It's also not a race to the bottom. It's an perception of imbalance of output versus payment.
Many feel the quality of teachers is sorely lacking, yet the demand for funding constantly increases.
Teacher Unions in a lot of states prevent the removal of substandard teachers that further devalues the perception that the citizen's tax money is well spent.
Said unions also put up any roadblock they can towards any form of measurable accountability of teachers, or from the privatization of the school system.

Totally understandable as a union exists only to protect the jobs and interests of it's members, not the tax payers or the students.

Does any other job where one only works 9 months out of the year pay for the other 3 months?

I dunno, teachers are paid pretty well for the months they actually work. Often near $25-30+ an hour. It's only when one factors in the months they aren't teaching as lost wages does the rate seem to be lower. I don't think there is anything preventing them from working in the off season. Just another form of seasonal worker like lifegaurd or Mr Plow.

Ideally, you give the schema to the other side and they can validate the message before sending to you, catching possible errors there. You validate against same schema on your side as a safety net to week out junk data and messages from users that don't validate. It also allows you to enforce types and limitations on values in a consistent manner.

JSON is good for quick and dirty communications when you are both the sender and the consumer of messages and can be lazy and not care too much about junk data.

Both have their uses, but you have to know when to use which.

100% of Homicides are linked to humans killing each other, regardless of implement.

Seriously, this is all about cementing a communist regime and preventing armed rebellion by the people.

Only the army, military, mercs, and criminals will have guns. Average Jose/Josefina Citizen will be stuck in the middle unable to defend themselves from gangs or oppression.

A direct democracy is fool hardy, esp as the mob learns to vote itself more and more things that it can't pay for. This also leads to 3 wolfs and a sheep voting whats for dinner.

Putting aside the technical hurdles involved, such as bacon forbid, unique IDs to prove who one is in order to vote and ensure valid voting (something that is apparently racist to have accuracy and accountability), you have a person in a position of power applying his vote however the wind blows, with no convictions or principles.

I'd much rather vote for the person who has a spine, is willing to stick to their principles, and is most closely aligned with whatever ideology I associate with on what I consider the important issues to represent me.

It's not working because people haven't forgotten that the united auto workers union was bailed out by the taxpayer dollars.

I'm in the market for a new car, and like the car commercial that embarrassed the current administration, if I buy American, it will be Ford, for the same reason.

The FBI didn't notify anyone involved in returning the server, that's the problem.
The server could very well have had additional software/hardware installed to snoop the network remotely, or store the data secretly on the server for later physical retrieval. Retrieve keys, passwords, cyphers, etc.

Would you let anyone just install hardware/software on your network without your knowledge? Esp if the device was already confiscated without your notification in the first place?