Comment I'll buy my watches from the usual sources (Score 1) 193
out of a trunk at a drive-in, or just inside a dark alley.
out of a trunk at a drive-in, or just inside a dark alley.
But they don't want to kill the people. They just want them to be too afraid to leave or to do anything that will get them fired.
Why the fuck would they bother with that?
Last I heard, those jobs were coveted and easy to fill with a long waiting list to get in.
In any case, you would need Amazon to actually enforce it. While they do have more money for legal fees, they would risk a big PR issue if they tried to prevent some guy from working at Walmart after quitting Amazon. Also, the first guy with such a problem wouldn't have a lot of trouble finding someone to help them with legal fees, if only for the publicity.
This is probably just a scare tactic, to discourage people from leaving them, it is unethical, but not really enforceable.
More likely, it's a case of megalomania of some middle manager somewhere. Some guy read the article about Facebook "stealing" methods for data centers and thinks the stuff "they invented" in the company is intellectual property worth billions and tries to "protect his ideas."
The non-competes I have experience with were always some big ego douchebag somewhere, not a real business need. It might be different in some industries, but random software consulting companies just don't need it. Yeah, you can be protective of client lists and such, but how to go about the job?
not to be confused with code that sorta looks like it, but surely doesn't smell like it...
knock them off the web for 12 hours, open it up... if they continue, block 'em again...
"We may change, suspend or discontinue the Service, or any part of it, at any time without notice."
Google has that problem too. And they have a long track record of abruptly killing services.
Say 210 watts system power at the wall. 5000 watts a day. Say $0.20/kWh. That is $1/day. No biggie? That's almost $400 a year. Per server. You claim how many? Funny how one under states power/CPU use but over states the rest. Who you lying for?
Amazon gives you infinite store for $60 a year.
That is why America rulez! and the Greeks druelz!
And if he pays for electric heat, some of that comes back in the form of not needing to heat as much. Even in summer time, sin ome places the basement is too cold to use as living space without heating it.
As usual, do the math and decide for yourself it it works for you.
Isn't it sort of obvious that hotel networks are a free-for-all security wise?
Use a VPN and SSL.
kinda like any engineering project, I guess... pick the maximum incredible external threat, and design resistance to... uh, wait, the budget got cut HOW MUCH? OK, well, guys, let's pick the maximum credible external threat we can protect against 80% of the time for under $7 billion. make it modular so we can truck 'em in. seaming with tape is OK if we have to.
correct me if I'm wrong... but didn't this whole concept of racks, equipment, wires, central power come from the telephone company 100 years ago?
at least in Internet years. we don't need one more that lays advertisements and not-friends on top of the test data.
They obviously don't care if a person succeeds or not. They only want their name in the media. They share the PR school of Miley Cyrus. They want articles saying that they are attacking people on the mainland US. That will help them win or loss. They want to project international power.
They don't care about the past (destroying ancient Assyrian artifacts) and they obviously don't care about the future (declaring war on the world, killing huge chunks of the population in their area). They only live in the now. The question isn't if they will succeed in their goal. The question is, how long will they be around to annoy / terrorize / kill us all.
They quite literally think they are bringing on the end of days as is in their literature.
Why worry about a few petty details if your goal is "end of the world"?
That makes a new loop hole: Cop wants someone dead. Cop makes an anonymously swatting call. Cop goes in knowing it's fake and kills the person he wants dead. Cop gets off free.
The police are the ones doing the shooting, not the caller. The cop always has final say if he should pull the trigger or not. Any cop shooting someone else should always be held accountable for that shooting. Most shootings are justified, some are not.
There are already laws against false reports. They should be strengthened.
Something similar to this actually played out recently.
The home owner ended up shooting and killing the right cop (the one with the grudge) and got off. Apparently the other cops didn't like the dead guy much so there wasn't a big rally to hang the innocent home owner.
Presumably this would be done in a sterile room and that the patient would need to be cleared for any potentially hazardous bacterial infections and the such.
They noted that the BBB is restored within a few hours. Assuredly not a 100% safe treatment to be sure, but that's hardly new in medical science (think of all the potential side-effects listed with every medication. Never mind things like full body irradiation as prep for bone marrow transplants, cutting up (or even out) pieces of the brain to reduce seizures and so on.)
Sometimes the cure is worth taking some risks. Of course "sometimes" isn't the same as "always" and it would need to be determined case by case based on the patient's other co-existing conditions, the will of the family, financial situation, etc.
They are using sound waves. It may be non-invasive and require little more than shaving the target point and applying a lubricant to the skin.
Though, if they are going through the skull there is a VAST difference in what will get through a mouse skull from what will get through a human skull.
Opening the head up to get it done... well that's sort of going to cause other problems so the treatment won't be ethical / used due to risks elsewhere.
Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer
