The problem there is that when the well is contaminated, it's WAY too late to do anything. Even if the responsible company immediately stops fracking completely, the well will continue to provide polluted water until the aquifer gets cleaned out somehow. That may be anytime from years to millenia.

I think it's more reasonable for the landowner to be able to force the fracking company to "fix what they broke" and to ensure the landowner has a supply of clean water equal to their current well production available to them for free until the well runs clean again. Or the frackers pay for all the land at pre-fracking market value.

Yeah, I'm a dreamer.

So first they say " left turned on for 248 days, it will enter a failsafe mode" then they say "all the Generator Control Units will shut off, leaving the plane without power, and the control of the plane will be lost."

That is NOT fail "SAFE". That is fail "EVERYBODY DEAD".

Hmm, all banks with a common API so any flaw in that API means that the cybercriminals have instant access to all banking information for everyone everywhere. And we know d*mned well that there WILL be flaws in that API.

I prefer the bazaar to the cathedral, please.

ISPs lie. Who knew?

Seriously, if I had a nickel for every time my ISP (*cough* rogers.com *cough*) lied to me, I'd be a rich man.

I think they deliberately fill their storefronts with toxic twerps who score the highest on sociopathy tests.

"Actually I fail to see how "motivate your employees to work harder" necessarily translates into "employees are happier""

Fair criticism. I just think that for people with common sense, more money likely (not necessarily!) translates into a better life and more satisfaction, up to a point.

A larger apartment closer to work for a more relaxing commute, fewer nagging worries about money, chances to enjoy nicer "things", etc. are all minor but real improvements in quality of life that can be enjoyed with a higher salary. Some people are very much motivated by money and some are less so, but unless your staff have genuine addiction problems, more money is likely something they will appreciate.

He surely owns a large chunk of the company: Why take a huge salary when you can motivate your employees to work harder and make the company worth more? That is a faster way to get rich than just paying yourself a salary.

He gets rich faster, and the employees are happier. It's win-win. Just don't pretend it's about "justice" and not simple self-interest.

Meh.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2...

Personally, I think Canada is the greatest place to live in the world, but I'm biased!

First of all, welcome to Canada and I hope you're having a good time in our great nation. Sorry about the winters!

Second of all, if the USA wants to do the H1-B visa fairly for all USA citizens, here's a suggestion: Make the minimum annual salary for each H1-B visa holder 10 times "the poverty threshold for a single person under 65" (about 10 x $11,490US = $114,900US based on 2013 numbers.)

That way you will eliminate the problem of employers getting "cheap" labour to corrupt and undercut the job market to displace honest, capable USA citizen workers, and you'll still be able to attract the genuine foreign talent that these billionaires claim to need.

If these billionaires REALLY want what they claim they want, then they'll have no problem with this change. And pigs will fly, too!

Resigning the CSR reuses the old keys. That's a security error: you're essentially reusing a password.

A new certificate should be generated using a new set of keys, and the old CSR should be discarded.

Just put two reasonably competent people in the cockpit at all times and stop trying to f**k an extra penny out of every dime, you cheap chiselling b*st*rds.

Right now many feeder airlines are barely paying a living wage for their junior cockpit staff, so stop pretending that the personnel costs are going to put you out of business. You're certainly not passing along the recent fuel cost savings to us sardines.

(I haven't had my coffee yet, so that's my excuse for the "negative tone" in this post.)

So it looks like I can just drop one of these into my xubuntu 14.04 LTS desktop. Kewl!

Now if I can just convince SWMBO that I NEED one...

If the work is so disorganized that it can't be picked up easily, then the manager has been doing a crappy job. The manager should have a good overview of what the employee was doing.

If the person coming in to do the job is too junior to pick up the job fairly easily, then they are too junior and the manager needs someone with better chops.

Finally, there's no reason that the manager can't call the released employee with a few questions during the 2 weeks: That's perfectly reasonable.

Losing an employee is always going to be difficult no matter how you do it. There's no easy way through it but if you hire the right person with the right understanding of the job, the work they do to learn the job will help define it and give them the chance to make it their own. If you try to define the job perfectly with all the processes and rules already in place, you don't get the chance for the new guy to bring in better methods and ideas.