Well - the cagier employers out there will say your final pay won't be disbursed until you sign.

Misdemeanors shouldn't even show up on a criminal record. Only felonies. But then you did say you're in Ohio and they have one of the more archaic legal sysems in the U.S. Time to get the hell out.

I suggest you have an NCIC check done - if nothing shows up there just move to another state that isn't as ass backward as Ohio and you'll be in the clear.

I say this because I know in most states the look mostly at NCIC but in some places the look at the state BCI. Thing is, NCIC only records felonies not misdemeanors. So it looks like those rejecting you are running state BCI checks.

I'm an actual I.T. Pro - Linux mostly. That said when I worked for the state our benefits sort of paralleled the union employees. But when it came to overtime we didn't get that - instead we got to comp hours. When we relocated offices I ended up with 400 comp hours. And I exercised them, roughly 10.6 weeks worth. A day off here, a week off there. Took close to two and a half years to tap that out. It resulted in me not working my last month there and being paid for it so that was cool.

Yeah I got my smartphone about a year ago.l was sort of forced into it since my carrier made upgrades and my older Android phone wouldn't play nicely. The new phone cost me a total of $3.00 That's right, three bucks! That was the tax.

It's a dual core processor, I can hit facebook, web, Echolink, Navigation, 5MP camera, etc. It is limited to a max of a 32GB SD card though.

Well consider all the big investment houses rate incumbent power providers as a poor prospect because of the threat of solar, wind and storage and you might know why they're scared.

And we're all pretty aware that the incumbent power companies have been screwing us for the past 50+ years. National Grid for example, got a 31% increase in electric rates last year and now they want close to another 30%. This says they're losing revenue - and if my count of wind turbines and solar installs is right I know why.

UG cabling has a few benefits that don't come with aerial cabling. The first is that weather beyond potential flooding isn't a problem. Then of course there's the fact that there is still a critter problem if you don't encase in conduit with UG wire inside the conduit.

This isn't surprising at all. Utilities long ago split responsibility for poles fairly evenly between the incumbent telecom carrier and the incumbent power provider. So when something does wrong they just stand there pointing the finger at each other until such time the pole topples over taking all their lines out.

And let's not talk about construction and rental fees on said poles. It's what tanked a municipal wifi project.

Deploy two factor authentication. Now if you're dealing with the Unix/Linux world I recommend setting it up so a min of 12 characters - and explain how to compose passwords. But better yet - ssh keys with passphrase. That's much better.

Was the banning of tetraethyl lead in gasoline. Since then crime stats have gotten better and better.

Via the Web I hate it. It's slow as crap - has shitty formatting options etc. But gmail is much better over IMAP - then just use the client of your choice and you're good.

I hate the threading feature too. That takes much getting used to on their web product.

I've seen it myself. Now from personal experience I know many African Americans that are brilliant people. The tests Watson refers to are culturally biased and so yes will show certain groups as inferior to others. But it's well known at this point that this is true - the test are culturally biased. So give a test given to white U.S. kids to kids in the various countries of Africa and sure - the kids in the latter will likely test lower.

Has nothing to do with brain capacity and everything to do with culture.

Driving under the influence hasn't stopped. But I'll let you all in on a little secret - once autonomous vehicles are the norm there will be no more DUI charges. And that will reduce the need for traffic enforcement cops too.

I recall when I worked for the Attorney General's office in RI we had an old Wang VS 100 system running a few databases. Stuff that could easily be ported out to MS-SQL and Access. It was like pulling teeth but not from who you'd expect. It was the person on my staff that managed those databases. Finally put my foot down and said here's the date we transition and here's the date we de-commission the VS 100.

And it got done. She hated me for that. But hey, it's not my job to coddle. If I piss on your corn flakes there's a damned good reason for it.

I once worked for a state government I.T. unit. There was an ancient Compaq Proliant server that was out NT Domain server. We wouldn't touch that box if you paid us. New I.T. director comes in and decides to put in a new domain cluster. We warned him - both we systems guys left the place before that went off. I hear from people inside that it went horribly. Group policies, memberships etc. were a cluster fuck etc. Spent many nights and weekends getting it all ironed out.

We systems guys did get out way on one bit though. They wanted to move from Qmail to MS Exchange all because someone in the admin saw that we in I.T. could look at emails to fix problems. We put our foot down - so now there's a Qmail box in front of the Exchange server.

If you're using Xen - which is a virtualization package. I've never run across Xen in the wild - in fact only at one job interview did they actually use Xen.